Re: Finish for Cedar

On Jun 29, 8:59 am, Tanus <Tanu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I made an Adirondack chair from WRC. It looks ok. SWMBO thinks it looks
good too.

Stuck it out on the deck and admired it for a while, then my mind moved
on to other things. But SWMBO brought my mind back to it. "What are you
going to finish it with?"

"Uhm, I like the weathered look that cedar gets after a year or so," was
my reply.

"After all that time and effort, not to mention the materials cost,
you're going to let it WEATHER?!?"

Sigh.

This is the same woman that sends me out to falling down barns to
specifically rip off weathered barn board for her projects. If I come
back with wood that isn't weathered, it goes into the fire.

I"m not a guy who attaches great significance to maintenance projects.
AAMOF, I'd be more than happy to have Astro turf for my lawn so I didn't
have to cut it. Gazing into the future brings me more chairs on the deck
that all need to be finished, if I want to keep the butter on the right
side of my bread.

So I'm stuck. Let the chair weather and then have to weather another
storm, or keep her happy and finish it.

Spar seems to be the thing that most of you recommend. I'm thinking if I
can get 3 years out of spar, I may be ok. And I'm probably dreamin in
technicolor too.

Any other suggestions?

Thx

Tanus

I built a sun filter for my parents' patio some 20+ years ago. 1 x 6
and 2 x 4 lattice, extending some 20 x 40 feet on the south side of
the house. I dipped the end grain on all cedar in a pail of Penetrol
and after I assembled the whole thing, I coated the entire filter in
Penetrol once again with a brush. After 5 years, the tips of the beams
were still golden as was the rest of the filter.
20 years later, you can still see the tips having a slightly more
natural colour than the rest of the lattice.
I also coated a cedar adirondac and after 15+ years still looks great.
A local doctor, after having seen this sun filter, had his cedar board
and batten cottage done entirely with Penetrol. His cottage had
already weathered some, but the Penetrol brought it back, rejuvenated,
to almost new wood colour. 10 years later he had another application
done and still looks wonderful 5 years after that.
A tech at Flood, when asked, volunteered just enough info for it all
to make sense.... it is really "just highly distilled linseed oil."
(You didn't hear this from me. btw.) <G>

Here's a product, marketed as an additive to give oil-based paint
'legs' and yet it has a secret life as well..... and you know I
wouldn't *** you, Tanus, because you know where I live. LOL

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