the doors episode vi: The End. With just less than a week until Ramadan, Allah enabled me to finish with the doors. As in episode v, I started by lightly sanding, then wiping down the doors, before adding a third and final coat of varnish. From a distance, they look good. Alhamdulillah. But don’t look …
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Tea Time (2)
Tea Time (2). Testing the new “Intensity Control(tm)” slider in Cinamatic. This is the Bennet filter at 8 (of 9). Filters appear to start out at level 7, so you can push them up a bit if you want (and as I’ve done here). The intensity slider is part of a new update (v. 1.1) …
the doors
the doors episode v: the Varnishing… After a week of curing the stain, I ended up with another day off due to overwork, and so dug into the final stage(s): the Varnishing. Friday morning (June 20), after Fajr and some time with the Quran, I cleaned the doors with mineral spirits (again; not pictured), and …
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July 14 marked a turning point… we were finally going to start getting somewhere. the doors episode iv: sometimes a little stain is a good thing First, as it had been a week since the doors had seen any action, I Dyson-ed, then wiped down the doors with mineral spirits (and none of that synthetic …
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the doors episode iii: sanding continues…
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the doors episode ii: in which we bring out the big guns… So after two disappointing days with the stripper (aren’t they all?), and after consultation with Alex,*I returned to the home improvement center yet again, and picked up something I had wanted since I was a painting student: a corner cat power sander. It …
the doors
We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to bring you a special event… Ladies and Gentlemen… the Doors episode i: it begins I guess it was 6 or so weeks ago, my dad was over for dinner, and—like every other male family member with any professional or technical knowledge—advised me on what needed to be taken care …
