stryped <dgilbert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I am wanting to build a day bed for someone cheaply. But I do want it
>to look nice and hold up. It needs to be painted white. Will using
>regular 2x4 and other building lumber be ok? Around here, I think it
>is southern yellow pine. I plan on planeing it and everything.
>
>Other wood around here is just so expensive. I have some oak at home,
>but hate to use it and paint over it.
SYP should work fine, with proper care. It certainly is strong enough.
And it should be stabile once properly seasoned. Some cautions:
1) Allow plenty of time for it to air dry and stabilize to an
environment similar to its ultimate home--as it comes from the BORG,
it is likely pretty wet.
2) Allow for at least double the waste you would anticipate with other
wood, even if you have picked carefully from the stock at the BORG.
When you dress it, you are likely to find reaction wood, case
hardening, and other problems that make the final planed size much
smaller than you wanted.
3)Make sure to seal and prime well. Knots and sap pockets tend to
bleed through and show up as stains on your paint. I like to use a
shellac-based AND an oil-based primer, on the theory that what one
doesn't block, the other may. No scientific basis for that, though,
and I may be kidding myself.
You might want to price out poplar. Takes paint very well, and is
"better behaved" as a furniture wood than SYP (meaning less waste and
less frustration in working it), and somewhat lighter, which you may
appreciate when picking up the bed.
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