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Built a kitchen, learned a bunch (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by sagrotan to c/[email protected]

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I'm more of a solid wood guy, learned a bit about chipboard here, for example to avoid it where possible. But the countertop is real wood :) We haven't got much space, so you have to build stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Countertop looks great! Did you do a coat of anything on top of the wood for the countertop?

[–] sagrotan 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks, the Birchwood plate was on discount, my wife wanted waterproof, so it's waterproof varnish, 3 layers with sanding, semi gloss. That was actually really fun, the laminated chipboard corpus not so much. I don't know, that stuff is resistant and very sensitive on all the wrong places. At least I had a chance to try out a new jointer /drilling jig.