31 Dec 25:
Flood coats three and four drying, trying to build up the varnish so we can sand a little. There was quite a bit of grain hills and valleys when we started, and we didn't want to sand off a ton of hilltops to get to level down to the bottom. And we skipped sanding on these first coats, as we would have just removed varnish from the hill tops.
Normally I'd stop here, plenty of varnish for a workboat finish, but I want to see if I can smooth out this surface a bit.
Anyone need a short rub rail...we have some scraps. I chowdered up one of the blanks when the router bit split some grain, so it is scrap now. That was Moaning Chair Chapter 1. Then I had to cut another blank and it is maybe a sixteenth of an inch thinner than the blank that I was happy with...Moaning Chair Chapter 2. Does this matter? Possibly. I need to do a fit test and if the thinner rail meets Skipper's approval, I can plane down the thicker rail to the same thickness. If it is No Bueno, then it is a trip to the lumber store SPF (Spruce-Pine-Fir) pile to see if they have a clear twelve footer.
Last sunset of 2025. And tomorrow the sun sets at 1700!
Clark and Skipper
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