As we continue our refit we are now varnishing the teak trim from the salon. This 2 part series is a how to guide to getting the best look and results withou...

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we've got my little helper here what's

your name we can make my helper we just

call her swab dummy

all right swab so today we're gonna be

working on sanding the teak trim just

goes along the ceiling of your salon

every one of them okay so safety first

you got your safety goggles on all right

you ready the first thing we did here

was to remove any of the small Brad's

with a pair of needle nose pliers from

the trim pieces and then we were going

to go ahead and get started on the

sanding as a next step

when I want to rub right on here okay

and to care if you don't get a Spooner

so just rub real gentle okay can you do

that I do like to work neat and this

tool this fine

turbo one dust collector affordable dust

collector vacuum system is awesome you

plug your sand or tool into the front of

it when you turn the tool on it

automatically comes on it's good and

powerful relatively quiet compared to a

regular shop that thing's phenomenal

I'll put links down below if anyone's

interested in picking one of these up we

sand them you help me wipe them clean

right we get all the dust off of them

right if we got all the dust off right

remember you wiped it with the green

towel a microfiber towel that's right

so I like to get these empty paint cans

for mixing my varnish they're clean

inside you can seal them back up they're

pretty easy to clean it's a great way to

do it you never actually want to drip

your dip your brush down into the actual

varnish can so what I'm gonna do is I'm

going to use this and I'm gonna mix my

varnish 75% varnish and 25% paint

thinner that's a pretty thin mix but

because I sanded this down to the raw

tee I want something's gonna really

penetrate into this wood for that first

coat and give me a good smooth layer and

deeply penetrate the wood so I'd like to

do this because with it with a 25%

mixture of paint thinner what's gonna

happen is when I paint this on the paint

thinner is going to evaporate much

quicker and just leave the hard varnish

down on that surface so I really like

this helmsmen spar varnish I'm sure

there's a lot of other ones out there

but this one is pretty readily available

and fairly inexpensive and I've had a

really good luck with it if you prepare

the surface correctly and you apply it

correctly had some really nice results

so with varnish you want to mix it and

stir it with a stir stick you're trying

to avoid getting air bubbles in it

because air bubbles ultimately will

cause a a rough surface and just cause

you more work after you put the material

down you'll have to sand it down more

between coats so I'm doing this in a

circular motion and I'm being very

cautious to not create bubbles I don't

want

you know think about the way you've beat

an egg for a scrambled egg you don't

want to do that small circles and mix it

up real good I'm gonna go ahead and mix

some of this down here I don't have a

lot here so I'm not going to I'm not

gonna mix up much of this that's a

pretty thin mixture I'm doing the air is

definitely your enemy when it comes to

varnish and so as soon as I'm done

mixing and pouring from my primary can I

tap this thing closed just to be sure

I'm preserving the material all right so

we've got our varnish in and now we're

gonna mix this up and I'm just

eyeballing this at about 25% honestly I

could be at 15 20 25 maybe 30 look

trying to draw the lighter side of that

if anything what we really want to see

is that's really really thin here so I'm

a big fan of these chip brushes you can

buy these things dirt cheap at Harbor

Freight you can actually see I let this

one get wet the outer edge is a little

rusted but the bristles are fine then

and for what I'm doing this is great you

know purists they'll probably say you

should use a beaver hair brush but

honestly I have tried I've yet to find a

great way to clean these things and I

don't use them often enough to make it

worth my while so I am I prefer to do

this brush over with overkill for what

I'm paying here but you can see here

this is definitely a thin thin version

you see what we're doing there okay 12

the 18 inch section blend it in nice I'd

like to do my strokes back and forth

here so I fill in all these voids and

then once I've got that section covered

I slowly come back with some long gentle

strokes to blend it you'll also hear

you'll also hear varnishing guys talk

about that being feathering and today

we're going to put on coat two of the

varnish on the interior teak wood trims

that go on the overhead in the salon so

away we go if you remember yesterday we

went ahead and did the first coat of

varnish we sanded them down the bear

would put the first coat of varnish on I

mixed it about 75% varnished about 25%

thinner

today I'm gonna reduce that thinner a

little bit more probably 10 to 15% on

this second coat because I'm putting

this coat on before I head to work I

want to put some gloves on because I

always end up getting a little bit on my

hands I'd like to avoid that again chip

brushes love these little things will

say when you first want to use one of

these brushes you want to get it a

little bit damp otherwise it seems to

shrink a little bit

once you have one coat on you're

starting to do your second here's where

getting your head low and looking at

letting the light show all those brush

strokes it's a great way to see if

you've missed anything one thing when

the wood is raw it's pretty obvious then

you have a good coat on there but at

this point it's harder to see those

little those voids

every one so long you see chip brushes

you'll get a small bristle and now what

I do is I just run this kind of along

the grain backwards and it'll pull that

little bristle right off of there you

got to do it while it's still wet and

you have to then come back and blend

that spot and they can see the spots

here where I just push the brush the

wrong way

I think I've noticed that these is it

before you start if you kind of brush

them real hard up against the hard

surface the edge of a table your hand if

you can actually take masking tape and

roll it backwards or blue tape and rub

on it to pull any of the loose hairs out

that's another good way of avoiding some

of these bristles that can get down in

your varnish

we're in the storage shed today and I'm

gonna go ahead and put on another coat

of varnish let's let's kind of see how

this looks so I'm in here mixing up the

varnish way I've done before I I'm

thinning it a little bit it's a bit

chilly today it's probably in the high

40s so I'm gonna put probably less than

10% paint thinner in the varnish just to

let it flow a little easier in the

cooler weather so as usually we want to

mix this we want to try not to get any

air bubbles introduced into it and we

also want to make sure we get all of

that thicker stuff that kind of tends to

settle to the bottom up to the top do

this just to get any loose hairs off of

this since I'm using one of these

inexpensive chip brushes in the actual

finish I'm just wanting to smooth it out

you'll hear you'll hear people refer to

that as wetting down keeping a wet edge

I think I love about using these gloves

and they take the old brush it's already

in a bristles now some of the covers

basically just put it in my hand turn

the glove right inside out kind of holds

the brushes in there great way to

dispose of them with the clean side out

and then I just repeat the same process

in this hand then got a nice clean

surface to pick up throw away works well

wait to do here don't touch it and it's

not honey it looks like honey them

didn't it's not honey it's honey it's

not only because they're chemical and it

could hurt you don't touch it all right

you like yep that says butterfly hatch

you got him upside down look this part

goes on your nose I lay down so one

thing I'm not sure of is why I was

thinking that bringing tiro would make

me productive at varnishing are you

helping productivity or hurting it yeah

it's a very good point she's a

sweetheart I love her to death but she

does not exactly one create productivity

all right

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