New Daiza WIP

[fudo133]

Howdy all, hopefully you're not all sick of this thread by now, but i just wanted to share the latest update;

After spending an embarrassingly large amount of time sanding out tooling and layout marks and a few more hours shaping and sanding the bead around the base, the visible areas of the daiza are now finished!

All that's left now is to finish off the underside and finally move onto staining and finishing it.

 

[Pitoon]

It came out very nice! What color stain?

 

[fudo133]

It came out very nice! What color stain?

I'm not entirely sure yet...i'm thinking of layering up some walnut and teak washes with shellac to get something with some variation a little like this

https://samedge.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/attachment-1.jpeg

 

[ShadyStump]

Have you considered something more transparent, but after some light torching to accentuate the grain in the wood?
I say this because I'm enjoying the contrast between the light wood and dark stone, but some torching would bring out the darker grains to balance the two.

Just a thought from someone who wishes he was working on a project like this.

 

[fudo133]

After giving much thought to how to finish it i finally settled on a combination of walnut, brown japan and mahogany stains mixed through shellac and layered up...i would have liked to have kept more of the pine's grain, but after having had a few bad experiences with blotching and unpredictable stain results on pine in the past i decided not to risk it since it could have been an extremely difficult thing to fix if it went bad.

You can still see a little of the grain showing through, but i think the variation in colour in the staining as a result of layering it and no doubt sanding heavier in some areas than others between coats of stain and shellac helps to keep things from looking too consistent and too much like plastic.

Sorry for the messy background, this was the only room in my house that had any decent light today!

Let me know what you think!

 

[ShadyStump]

Wow. That messy background actually gives some sense of scale now
That ain't no little rock!