{"id":1484,"date":"2017-03-08T16:21:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2017-03-08T16:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:21:40","slug":"knobs-127-131-132-refinished-wenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2017\/03\/08\/knobs-127-131-132-refinished-wenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Knobs 127, 131 & 132, Refinished Wenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Knobs 127, 131 & 132, Refinished Wenge<\/p><\/div>\n

These knobs, made of horizontal grain Wenge and finished with Minwax Polycrylic, clear & glossy water-based acrylic finish, have 6 mm pot shaft holes with nut clearance bells, and #5-40 x 3\/16\u201d set screws.\u00a0 They run from 0.841\u201d to 0.869\u201d diameter and 0.554\u201d to 0.595\u201d tall.\u00a0 Another knob finished with superglue ended up looking almost pure black, disguising the grain colors.\u00a0 First left as bare wood, the finish of these knobs was dull and lifeless, even though the grain showed clearly.\u00a0 The clear acrylic finish does darken them considerably, but brings out the grain.\u00a0 The bottoms and shaft holes are not coated.<\/p>\n

Due to a suspicion that wax finish had been used, these knobs were first washed in ammonia, followed by 91% rubbing alcohol.\u00a0 This leached out some of the natural wood dye, and lightened the wood a bit.\u00a0 In very dark woods, such as Zapote, a soak in denatured alcohol can leach out enough wood dye to reveal grain that would not otherwise be easily seen.\u00a0 The Zapote in mind had for some reason been dyed orange with a protective wax coating.<\/p>\n

After soaking and after the first water-based coat, the softer, lighter-colored grain rose and had to be cut and sanded back down.\u00a0 It might have added some interesting texture if left high, but didn\u2019t really look that good.\u00a0 The visible surface cracks are natural grain.\u00a0 The decorative grooves provide a better finger grip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These knobs, made of horizontal grain Wenge and finished with Minwax Polycrylic, clear & glossy water-based acrylic finish, have 6 mm pot shaft holes with nut clearance bells, and #5-40 x 3\/16\u201d set screws.\u00a0 They run from 0.841\u201d to 0.869\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,37],"tags":[359,360,361,363,271,273,364,362,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}