Summer, Where Art Thou? Also, Test Run with Cresting.

Starting to seriously wonder if we are even going to get Summer in Alberta this year. It snowed yesterday, tried again today, and we are expecting a low of -16 degrees Celsius tonight. This is unreal—we are 20 degrees below our average temp for this time of year.

Anyways, I was finally able to get into the garage and do a staining and cresting run. You know just testing colours, the paint brushes, and rigged up a super hick cresting machine that works decent enough. The stain I got is more on the greyer side than I was hoping but it will do. The wine red colour I got is a little off, but after adding a bit of black I was able to achieve the proper tone. I’m interested to check them in the morning to see final colours. I forgot to take a picture to share—not that it’s picture worthy in the slightest 🤣

I’m glad I did the test because I had to trouble shoot a bit—the paint was bleeding into the grain. Learned/remembered that I should use a thin layer of my polycrylic before cresting.

If anyone has any tips, anything at all, put them below. I’m all ears at this point.

Oh, I did film how I “poor man” splice my feathers. I’ll get that up hopefully soon.

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