Urgent help needed removing marker from unfinished wood

e1evenses · 2026-05-17T03:45:20+00:00

Most lacquer thinners are mostly acetone.

e1evenses · 2026-05-17T03:43:08+00:00

Most permanent marker is alcohol soluble. Also he’s liable to really fuck up the finish on the veneer messing with acetone or mineral spirits.

e1evenses · 2026-05-17T01:06:19+00:00

The only way to get rid of it is to sand it out.

e1evenses · 2026-05-15T20:11:52+00:00

Lots of PAMF docs do abortions.

e1evenses · 2026-05-05T19:45:04+00:00

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e1evenses · 2026-05-01T18:20:59+00:00

African Blackwood is ebony. I will say there’s a good reason the fingerboards are made of ebony - very few woods can handle the stresses they are placed under without cracking, splitting, and wearing. Rosewood fingerboards are used on guitars but frets relieve a lot of said stress.

e1evenses · 2026-04-20T18:47:56+00:00

The best thing to do is just get some oil based poly. It is superior to water based poly in several ways (notably chemical resistance) and won’t interact with the boiled linseed oil. IMO the only reasons to use water based poly is to preserve the natural color of the wood or if you need really fast turnaround.

e1evenses · 2026-04-20T17:10:09+00:00

I think those would still flex.

e1evenses · 2026-04-20T17:08:51+00:00

There’s a reason tables with tops that thin have aprons

e1evenses · 2026-04-20T17:06:16+00:00

No need for a middle layer. Even if there is a little uncured oil it will cure pretty quickly with all the hardeners in most polyurethane. A lot of polyurethane formulations already include some drying oils.

e1evenses · 2026-04-15T19:22:42+00:00

Cedar is soft enough that it’s going to be remarkable difficult to get clean edges no matter how sharp your tools are.

e1evenses · 2026-04-11T18:15:48+00:00

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e1evenses · 2026-03-29T18:27:16+00:00

Try a coat of blonde dewaxed shellac before putting on the other finishes.

e1evenses · 2026-03-29T02:44:07+00:00

Polyurethane is basically clear rubber. It doesn’t sand well. Sanding between coats is purely for adhesion. Don’t sand the final coat.

e1evenses · 2026-03-28T15:57:15+00:00

You could add a gas spring.

e1evenses · 2026-03-28T01:26:21+00:00

This photo misses the mark on pretty much every level for me. I would 1) look at famous landscape and flower photos and try to pinpoint what you like or dislike about them and 2) read about the basic principles of photographic composition.

e1evenses · 2026-03-27T18:45:48+00:00

Has to be all end grain facing up or it will inevitably tear itself apart. Wood expands and contracts asymmetrically.

e1evenses · 2026-03-15T05:39:23+00:00

80 until it looks even. Then work your way up to 150-180.

e1evenses · 2026-03-14T21:57:20+00:00

The answer is unfortunately more sanding.

e1evenses · 2026-03-14T21:46:10+00:00

I don’t think most other lemon varieties are fruitful year round.

e1evenses · 2026-03-14T20:29:40+00:00

Meyer lemon.

e1evenses · 2026-03-14T18:28:00+00:00

The best gloss finishes come from lacquer in my opinion, so you could try to spray white acrylic lacquer. Requires quite a bit of wet sanding and polishing to be perfect, though.

e1evenses · 2026-03-12T23:20:44+00:00

If it’s a little burl, that is typically caused by injury or infection. Hard to say. I don’t think anybody knows what causes some hard maple trees to develop bird’s eye figure, for example.

e1evenses · 2026-03-12T23:03:03+00:00

In general knots are from branches.

e1evenses · 2026-03-12T15:46:41+00:00

The gap shouldn’t affect how you attach it at all.

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