First of all, now that the gifts have been given, a big Thank You to Grant & Amy for the subscription to The Family Handyman. Clearly, it's turned-out to be handy, . . . man. (OK. I so stole that from Grant. But it bears repeating.)
Those of you with long memories and eagle-eyes may notice that the stain doesn't match the surrounding wood, even though I was going to conduct experiments to match it. I mentioned that to Nicole. She reminded me that we're going to rip all of that out, anyway. So I just used the same stain as in the upstairs hall.
In the foreground, you'll see my "persuaders." I'm guessing that 2 coats of stain and 2 more of polyurethane thickened the dowels. I applied the paste wax to the inside of the holes and gently applied the no-mar hammer. Worked pretty well, I think.
Those of you with long memories and eagle-eyes may notice that the stain doesn't match the surrounding wood, even though I was going to conduct experiments to match it. I mentioned that to Nicole. She reminded me that we're going to rip all of that out, anyway. So I just used the same stain as in the upstairs hall.In the foreground, you'll see my "persuaders." I'm guessing that 2 coats of stain and 2 more of polyurethane thickened the dowels. I applied the paste wax to the inside of the holes and gently applied the no-mar hammer. Worked pretty well, I think.
