March 14, 2012

On Wednesday I spent an hour finishing varnishing and sanding the gun rack. It is now finished.

March 13, 2012

On tuesday I spent an hour varnishing the gun rack. I put 2 coats of varnish on in that time.

March 12, 2012

On Monday, I spent an 2 hours putting the gun rack together, sanding it, and staining it. The only thing left to do on the rack, is to varnish it. It needs 3 coats of varnish. I finished my gun also on Monday. I spent an hour cleaning the glue residue off the gun. The gun is finally finished.

March 11, 2012

Today I spent 4 hours finishing up the gun. Me and Logan put the final template on. The only thing left for me to do on the gun is to clean the glue from the template off of the gun. After each template is removed a layer of sticky glue is left on the gun.  The painting of the gun is totally finished.

March 10, 2012

Today I spent 11 hours at the Ruhd house painting the gun. After each coat of paint, it says to wait 2-3 hours so it will harden onto the wood. We had to wait, because we did not want to mess the gun up. We almost got the gun done, but we decided to call it a day and wait until tomorrow to finish up on the gun. The toughest part of painting the gun was putting the templates onto the gun. We started with a base coat of white to put on the gun. After we did that we had to wait, after the wait we used the template to put on a grey. The next color on the gun was a brown. Tomorrow we will be finishing up with a darker brown.

March 9, 2012

I spent 5 hours working on my gun rack. I drew the design onto the pieces of wood, and cut them out. I had to draw the designs onto paper i taped together, and then i traced the design on the wood. I also spent 4 hours working on my gun, using a degreaser so the paint will stick better. While doing that, me and my mentor Logan also worked used the degreaser on his dads gun also. Both of these guns are going to get painted on March 10th.

March 8, 2012

I spent an hour with Dalton finishing the drawing of the gun rack in the auto cad program. My mentor Logan also sent me a text message saying that the paint for the gun came in and that he planned on working on it during the weekend.