Horse Buggy Completed

[EdJ]

Next task was cleaning up all the metal pieces of the carriage spending hours at the blasting cabinet.  One problem I ran into is that there were a lot of pieces longer than my 4ft wide blast cabinet.

I sandwiched to pieces of OSBwith a hole to accommodate the longer pieces without making too big of mess.

 

No wit is time to setup a paint booth.  I selected an old fashioned marine paint and primer that will handle the expansion and contraction of the wood and sprayed everything with a pressure pot setup (handles thinker paint) on the spray gun.  

The downside to the old oil alk paint is that it takes forever to dry waiting 48 hours between coats.  As seen in the picture below, I was filling the grain that is not covered by the leather upholstery with the primer and sanding it out.  Very tedious job.

 

Every little piece had to be painted separately for later assembly.

Where I sanded the filled grain I was pretty close to obtaining a mirror finish.  Almost ready for assembly.

 

Edited September 21, 2020 by EdJ

[paloma]

great work! BRAVO!

[Retswerb]

This is awesome, @EdJ. Thanks for bringing us along through the process!

This obviously isn’t your first rodeo, with a project requiring a fairly diverse set of skills and knowledge. Once you’ve walked us through this one I’d love to see more of your work.

[JWheeler331]

That’s very very nice.