Browse our beautiful collection of living room furniture with a choice of drawers, tables, TV cabinets and units in either traditional wood, painted or contemporary glass finishes. Our range of living room furniture includes great value, high quality pieces all at the same excellent value we pride ourselves on. Sign up or log in to customize your list. Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question The best answers are voted up and rise to the top I'm building some speaker cabinets for my living room out of MDF. I'm wondering how to achieve that "high gloss" / "piano black" look, like on B&W speakers or, well, black pianos...I'm pretty sure it involves lots of layers of lacquer, but does anyone have any specific advice to give - spray or brush, how many layers, surface preparation, what kind of topcoat? finishing finish varnish paint mdf I have used this guy's technique before and it works great. Basically, you apply very thin coats, then sand to about 400 grit, and after that, do wet sanding to about 2000 grit, and then switch to the polishes.
There is a pretty complete step-by-step I think the link in LeeG's reply covers all the necessary steps but just to have it spelled out here. Good surface prep is very important, imperfections 'telegraph' through paint very easily so the more perfect you can get the surface initially the better. The flatter the starting surface the less paint you have to use too, so it does have both time and cost benefits. Build up of colour in multiple layers. Just as with most painting and varnishing multiple thin coats are better than one thicker coat. Flattening off using a sanding block to maintain a good flat surface. Special care must be taken at edges and corners as it is very easy to sand through to the primer coat. Final smoothing by wet-sanding to a very high grit, while still striving to keep the surface flat; it is possible to introduce waves and other dips into the finish even after switching to very fine grits.This can be achieved in any number of ways, from the old traditional methods used in furniture finishing such as using powdered rottenstone lubricated with a light oil or water, to modern cream polishing compounds and powered rotary polishers.
It seems nobody bothered to mention French Polish. That is the standard piano finish for quality pianos, period. French polish is a series of steps that fills and smooths surfaces using shellac. Over a stained and filled (grain filler) prepared surface: The first step uses rottenstone (like pumice) mixed with 1/2 lb or 1 lb cut shellac; rottenstone comes in grades (particle size). You work through grades of rottenstone + shellac from coarser to finest. The final multiple passes are shellac only. The reason this is not used more often is not the quality of the result, but the cost of paying someone with experience to do it. Mass produced pianos would have to be finished in places where wages a far lower than Europe or The US in order to compete price-wise with other finishing methods. I've touched up some baby grands and estimate that one square yard of surface is about two hours of work for minor touch up. I do not know firsthand, but am told a full grand piano can take 160 man hours or more for all finishing steps.
The good part about french polish is that it can be touched up to look completely new, but damage on nitrocellulose lacquer may require complete refinishing. By damage I mean spills, not where little Tommy takes a hatchet to a piece of furniture. Pictures do the best job of conveying the idea: If you're using MDF spray it with epoxy primer blocks sand it and shoot it with black acrylic enamel if it doesn't appear flat enough blocks and sand it with 320 grit sandpaper shoot it again then buff it this is far easier and faster I restore old wood boats Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged finishing finish varnish paint mdf or ask your own question. Our team believes everyone deserves a dining room table they love, so we’re happy to offer flexible financing options.
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