Several years back we did a downstairs make over . My OLD house was built in 1892 and has all red oak trim . We tore out all the old horse hair plaster that was falling down and put up all new drywall . I was vary careful on removing the old trim and it was most difficult to do since the OLD carpenter wanted it to last till the end of time used finish nails the likes i had never seen before , they were almost five inches long . The old varnish was all cracking and proved to be a challenge to remove as i learned real fast that you could not sand it off you could not use a heat gun and scraper as it made a bigger mess , but if you just bought a good carbide hand scraper it would come off then you could sand and restain. I used the water based poly after the stain dried and i CHEATED i bought a cheap China made spray gun and sprayed all the trim . I put down three heavy coates and let dry for a day and with 320 paper go over it lightly and thenlay down two more coates . I did damage some of the trim and had to reproduce it and this was where the fun came in since you can not go to the big box stores and buy what you need or go to a small lumber yard and find it i had to go to a saw mill and get rough sawed and make it . 8 inch base boards 7/8 thick 1/4 round that is larger then ya can find a beveld cap molding on top of the base board that is 3/8thick and 23/4 wide and a l shaped molding that has a different stile then ya can find . The remodle was not that much money the cost of building a wood working shop was . Not sure if there was more old plaster hauled out of here or wood chips and sawdust . Wich remonds me i still have some L cap molding to make and get up on two winders and around the new ft. door we installed , one of my better ideas to replace the old falling apart 30 inch ft. door with a new fancy 36 inch door . I also did as the old carpenter did i signed and dated all the trim on the back . As he signed and dated his work Joesph West Nov.1892
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Today's Featured Article - The Day Mom Drove the 8N - by Brian Browning. My Dad was wanting to put in a garden but couldn't operate the 8N and handle the old horse drawn plow he had found and rigged up to use with the tractor. Well, he decided to go get Mom out of the house and have her drive the tractor while he walked behind the plow. You got to understand that while my Mom is a hard worker who will always help whenever she can... she had never operated farm machinery before that day. Dad got her out there, explained how the clutch was the same as in our o
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