I’ve got to be better at updating this page! My excuse is that since there was no way I was going to get it done for the TCT Spring Rally three weeks ago, that I might as well relax. And, my grandson came over, and we went camping twice, and the lawn needed to be mowed, and, and, ad infinitum. Anyway, after a month long hiatus on getting much done on the trailer, today I finally got stain on the cabinet doors and kitchen drawers.
I used Minwax oil stain, Golden Pecan to try to get close to the original finish on the wardrobe doors I salvaged from another old Spartan. It’s very close, the wildly different grain pattern and colors of the various sheets of 3/4″, 1/4″ and 1/8″ all seems to blend together pretty well once stained. I touched a couple places on those original doors where I sanded through the varnish to bare wood, the stain is an identical match color wise on those panels. A little more brown on some of the other new panels, but it’ll look pretty uniform once the poly is laid down.
We’ve had two wonderful weekends camping with the Tin Can Tourist this spring. Last weekend in Muskegon MI at Hoffmaster State park on Lake Michigan, and the third weekend in May in Milford at Camp Dearborn. We’ve been using the little Tini-Home canned ham trailer, it’s cozy and comfortable, but I’m anxious to get the Spartan done so we can stretch out a bit.
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