After 10 years in Corporate America, I took a leap of faith and traded my high heels for a tool belt. I now spend my days building furniture and living life covered in sawdust.
My approach through this furniture making journey is figuring everything out as I go. I have no formal training, so everything is done by trial and error.
Join me as I build out my workshop and begin the furniture making journey in my very own space. I’m finally moving out of my parents basement - The workshop, that is. 😁
The initial passion behind Salvintage was breathing new life into a piece that someone else considered trash but as the years have gone on, I found a passion for building pieces completely from scratch.
Stay tuned - learn something new, be inspired or just watch a girl handle some power tools!
My Dad did this to an armoire for my sister about 30 years ago its not bleaching the wood it's a process called Pickling. in the late 80's early 90's it was a short lived fad for furniture. its the exact same process. You just have to come back and wipe the exccess paint off before its fully dry.
if i do this to knotty pine walls after sanding them will the red tones bleed through over time? do i need to do a step before i do this technique to stop the tones coming through?
A very poor job done by someone who knows nothing about sanders. That poor sander deserves a better home. You reinforced my view that most DIY videos done by women are shallow and showcase their unwillingness to learn and do a proper job of it. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. You had too much dust on top, that indicates an abnormal situation. There should NEVER be so much dust on top of a Dewalt Random Orbit Sander. It should be very clean. You NEVER, EVER blow out all that dust right back into the motor, esp with the dust collector still on and nowhere for that dust to go. This was so wrong. Vacuum that up and brush out the terminals and vacuum some move. There is a ton of dust under that on the motor and you just drove that dust deep into places it should not go. The sandpaper you are using has no holes in it, so the dust is not being vacuumed up into the dust collector and ending up in the wiring section. I cannot tell if you are using a sand net or sandpaper. The net needs no holes as it is full of holes, but the paper holes have to be aligned with the holes in the sander. This allows dust to go into the dust collector not on sander. What you did NOT DO: Verification of loose terminal wires on top, no checking of carbon brushes. Remove bottom Velcro pads - two of them, then unscrew the ball bearings and lubricate and clean them out. This is the primary reason it is running rough even after it works - you can hear it. Those bearings are dry and overheating the motor. In the newer sanders, you have to remove the two halves of the plastic casing and the screws that hold them together. This means removing some wires on top section from their terminals. Keep track with some paint on which half of casing goes on which half of motor. Now the whole motor is exposed, full of dust. Vacuum, brush, vacuum. DO NOT BLOW YET. Holding on to the commutator with clamping pliers you unscrew the Torx screw at the base holding the ball bearing section. Now you can access and clean the bearings and pack them with a bit of Silicone grease. Reattach. This will make your sander run smoothly again. Clean the commutator which has carbon dust residue and could use an alcohol cotton swab cleaning. Metal fins under the motor: vacuum, brush out, vacuum again. When everything looks very, very clean, vacuumed and brushed out, you can finally blow out all the hidden dust and more will come. Now your sander is new again. Power tools, need regular maintenance not just when they break down due to neglect. When you take the time to clean out your sander and making a video on it, dig deeper and do a complete job that is more useful than this. This was not very useful.
Dewalt is launching this tool as a dust tight switch. When you opened the lid there was more dust than the Sahara everywhere. After all, what matters is that a dynamic and beautiful girl.
I also use compressed air to clean out some dust in exactly the same Dewalt sander. I also took out the magnets on the left and the right replace them straight back… It did not start. Took them out again place them back in and bingo off It went like a champion If the magnets aren’t situated and moving correctly, they won’t initiate the motor to spin
man i wish i still had a garage to turn into a little workshop. we moved to a house that is garage-less and it makes me sad. i suppose even before we moved, our garage was just a dump of never-to-be-touched 20 year old odds and ends that i wasnt allowed to get rid of to even make space for any potential workshop exploration. also i would recommend wearing a dust mask when sweeping up that much sawdust. the flick of the broom really kicks up a lot of fine particles into the air.
Great combo! Just the right mix of wood and color, and the detail on the front really shows off the character of the piece. Your instincts are spot on. Well done and thank you for sharing your skills.
