YES it works...you CAN ceruse a golden oak kitchen.

hey today on woodworking with wes we're have we have a special request we're going to answer a question um actually several requests and a request you remember we did a video showing these two we called them high-tech finishes we learned afterwards that it's called saroos finish we did another video that showed the process in detail of how we got these two finishes and we had several requests on can i redo an old kitchen and make it look like this well i really didn't know so we did some investigation and some experimenting i went and i bought an old golden oak door and drawer face just off of a of a remodel job now a little bit of history you know that i've talked about the fact that i've been a cabinet maker for many years 45 years i built kitchens exactly like this for 10 years 30 years ago this is something that you know you know you've been in the business a long time when you start remodeling your own work anyway this is a kitchen that looks exactly like kitchens i did a long time ago when we were doing these kitchens in golden oak oak is a great wood i love oak we did a lot of them like i say it's a great wood to work with it machines nice it sands nice it holds up really well it's very durable and these kitchens that were done a long time ago well taken care of last a long time and still look good but the golden oak has kind of gone out of style even though some people still like it it's still a great finish i don't have any problem with golden oak but trendy it's not so i went and bought some of these and i fooled around and i did a ceruse finish you can see these two drawer faces right here are exactly the same and so that's what we're going to do we're going to take this door and we're going to go through the process that i used on this drawer face to turn it into a nice ceruse finish white with black glaze so let's get started we started off on our refinish job we'll call it a refinish we started off by just wire brushing a good stiff wire brush and just wire brush it now before i wire brushed i took some lacquer thinner and i wiped out wipe down my door to wipe off all of the oils and greases and things like that that come from use years of use i wiped it all down cleaned it all off now we'll get ready to wire brush and i'll show you how we wire brush we'll just go through we'll wire brush this door then we'll take it to the paint shop and do the finish i started off by doing the ends cross grain and i'll show you why i do it cross grain this way you started off doing it this way like this across the bottom of the door bottom rail and molding and that takes off you can see how it takes off some of the old finish but what it's doing is digging down and highlighting the grain so that our glaze will hold so we're going to go ahead and do this all on this door now one of the reasons like i said we talked about doing the cross grain first if we did a cross grain last your scratches would show up when you did your glaze so do your cross grain like this first your rails ends of panels and then come down so let's cross grain here then you go through and you straighten out your wire brushing on your style stock on the face of your panels down the edges here down your molding and you do that in that succession so that when you do your paint and glaze your glaze looks very nice you don't have any cross grain scratches so let's go ahead wire brush our door [Music] steps we've spent about 10 minutes now wire brushing this door scrubbing really good and hard i want to show you one thing we had a dent in the door that was fairly significant if we would have left that that would have shown up as a big black mark with our glaze so i filled it now i'm going to take the wire brush and wire brush away the putty and now this is just going to with the paint you won't see the dent anymore and when we put the glaze on it it'll hide that repair that i did won't show up and so if you have any repair work on your on your existing kitchen fill it wire brush it it'll disappear you'll see when we get over to the paint shop you'll never know i did that repair we're all done wire brushing now off to the paint shop we've just completed giving two coats of white vinyl on our door if you look real close you can see the grain is highlighted by our our wire brush this is where the glaze is going to hold but we're going to go ahead and give this a soft sand now to smooth out our vinyl primer and then we'll put the glaze on now again the vinyl primer that i use is ml camel vinyl primer and i have it tinted to a color that is specific for a job that i have this happens to be a job that has the color snowbound they mix it to match the color that i choose but it is just a white vinyl primer by ml campbell the glaze that we are going to be using it doesn't say also on the can because they mixed me just a quart i was using benjamin moore glaze and i liked benjamin moore glaze but i was introduced to ml campbell furniture glaze this is a color that they've mixed up black furniture glaze that they've made for me i like it a lot better so i'm going to be using ml campbell furniture glaze from now on on for all of my glazing purposes so this is what we're going to use for glaze so we're going to take a soft sanding sponge we're going to sand our door and then we're going to glaze it okay we've sanded our white paint now and the sanding sponge that i use is just a sanding sponge that i buy from my retail paint supplier i use extra fine so that it doesn't scratch my finish and i just sand it down so it's a smooth you can see where it powders up on my hand now we're ready for glaze okay i'm all sanded i blew it off all the dust so that it would be nice and clean now if you don't have a nice paint shop or a place to paint just make sure that wherever you paint is well ventilated if you're painting outside or in a garage or something like that just make sure that you're well ventilated when you paint and wearing a ventilator mask if you don't have a really good paint job my paint shop is set up so that i don't have to have that unless i desire to have it where i was just doing one door and talking to you i didn't wear one but we're getting ready to glaze now and i apply my glaze with just a little throwaway brush paint it on very generously make sure you get down in all the grooves that's what we're trying to show off i like to wear gloves so i don't have to clean up as much and just paint your glaze on there nice literally i always paint my outsides first so that i can hang on to the door in the middle and then i paint my middle last one of the other things i like about ml campbell furniture glaze is the drying time is much faster the benjamin moore took several hours to dry this only takes just about an hour to dry so it speeds up the process if you are doing multiples you can get done much faster okay now we're going to go around and wipe and i just use a paper towel to wipe my glaze and we're not going to take all the glaze off we're going to clean up the glaze but we're going to try to leave a good coat of glaze because we're wanting our grain to stand out now see there's our we start wiping up and there's the grain starting to show that's what we're looking for glaze also highlights the profiles on your style and rail set we'll want to do that too now there's a trick that makes your white and black really stand out and i'll talk about that in just a minute but let's first off let's get the glaze in here really good okay and now let's do the face of our panel again make sure you get plenty of glaze on there so it gets down into those grooves that we spent so much time creating with our wire brush because that's what makes the grain stand out is the glaze in the grooves where you've wire brushed the grain so there's our panel like i said plenty of glaze all right paper towel the reason i like to use a paper towel first off they're inexpensive and when you get done using them you just throw them away and it makes your cleanup much nicer much easier i use it for my stain and my glaze whenever i stay in the kitchen i stain and then i wipe it with paper towels and it's just always worked really well for me okay now that's as far as we're gonna go right now and you can see that that doesn't have the really pretty black and white that we like to show the trick is we're going to let this dry we're going to come back with our sanding sponge and we're going to lightly sand and we're going to sand away this kind of cloudy finish that's on top of the grain and leave what is in the the grain that we wire brushed out and it will make it look much whiter and the black too much look much darker then we're going to put two coats of clear top coat over the top of it and our door will be finished but now we've got to let it dry we'll come back when we're ready to sand we've allowed the glaze on our door to dry for an hour now and now we're getting ready to clean it up so that it's really white and really black on our paint and glaze contrast this is the sponge that i was talking about earlier i'm going to use a little bit different sizes or type of sponge it's still just a sanding sponge but it reaches into the profiles a little better it's just another one that you can buy from your paint supplier so let's get ready and let's sand and highlight our grain so let's go along the edge here here's our edge profile see how the white jumps out now it looks like the black is disappearing but what that is is that is just a little bit of our paint sanding off into the grain we'll blow that off with our blower air blower and that will take all of that sanding out of there and it'll darken those lines up again really quick oh how that grain pops out the glaze in our green drops out like that okay let's do the other end the cross grains first remember we talked about the cross grains we'll do that even in the sanding of our paint so that we make sure we don't have any cross grain marks i do that when i sand my lacquer and everything i always sand with the grain when i'm sanding my doors after i assemble them i sand the same way i always sand with my grain doing my rails and first and then my styles next and then on my panels and grain and then long grain okay let's turn it here start doing the long drain [Applause] the edges of our raised panel same way the inside of our style and rail profile leaving a little bit of great glaze to highlight our profile let's flip around here get the edge again remember how i always do the edges first and then the panel last same thing here i love the way this is turning out it really is bringing that grain out that's hard to believe that that was a golden oak door now you could do the same thing in reverse you could paint the door black and put a white glaze on or any combination a gray paint with a lighter glaze anything you wanted to do based upon color choices i just had white and black as a choice to really highlight the difference okay now it doesn't look like our grain's very bright right now but let's take it over to our blower and blow off the dust okay there we are after our initial sand now i'm going to sand it just a little bit more and see if i can to get these places to be a little wider i don't know we'll see yeah now that shows up a little quieter so we're just gonna work on some of those wider spots there especially on the panel and on the face of the style and rails get the door to be a little wider and the grain to be a little darker so all right let's do this last piece here working on those white pieces bringing out that white color even more a little bit in the panel profile there but i like the panel profile the way it is okay let me blow that off one more time see what we got okay i think we have it sanded enough but from this to this what a difference all we've got to do now is spray a nice top coat finish on and that will be done our profiles are highlighted giving it a real nice glazed look our grain is brought out the cerusing is not so deep that it makes your door rough it's a nice smooth finish oh that is beautiful i'd have that in my house let's put a top coat on it ta-da we we've sprayed our top coat and it looks beautiful now this top coat we just used a lacquer a spray lacquer but you could use polyurethane or anything like that to put your top coat on so whatever you desire to have for your top coat i spray lacquer so that's what we did but that's what we've done we've just got a beautiful finish and to be able to go from an old golden oak kitchen to a very nice ceruse finish just wonderful we had a lot of inquiries when we were doing our series finish we had a lot of questions and one of the biggest or one of the questions asked most often was could you do this in your kitchen and that's why we did this door and yes you can and it will turn out beautiful the cabinets being in place in your kitchen be a little more work but you could work on that that'll be okay i want to show you one thing on our finish when i sprayed my lacquer [Applause] i noticed that i have a little line where i send through my white paint and i just wanted to point that out you could put a little paint on your finger or a real small little artist brush and you could touch that up and that would disappear i didn't see it until i sprayed my lacquer but i just wanted to show you that that can be taken care of just pay a little attention to that and you'd be fine but that makes a beautiful door it would sure change your kitchen if you have an old golden oak kitchen that you're looking for a change there's your change works great this has been a fun project and we hope we answered questions that have been asked us about whether or not you can do this and we look forward to seeing you next time on woodworking with wes we're going to have some more fun [Music] you

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Length: 24min 19sec (1459 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 27 2021