From musician to carpenter

After spending several days walking and walking to find a good wood for the things Luis wants to make, we finally found different types of good quality and economical wood, the first wood we worked with was pine, the others are all bound, I don't really know which woods they are hahaha.

We started with pine wood to make the stands I talked about in the previous article. You can read my previous article here: Carpentry days

We had to have a lot of strength, courage, patience and a lot of free time to achieve the results we wanted and it is not quite ready yet.

We started sanding the wood with our hands and after hours and hours, days and days of sanding by hand, a friend of my brother in law lent us an electric sanding machine to be able to sand faster and better, thank God, I was already acquiring the super strength of Superman hahaha.

After sanding all the woods that we were going to use we realized that the sizes of the woods did not match much, so they had to be chopped a little and sanded again to be in optimal conditions, without splinters and without any discomfort that could scratch the surface where the woods would be placed.

After sanding them well and knowing how the wood would go we began to seal them so that they would not be damaged, for every three coats of sealer we had to sand a lot by hand, we no longer had the machine, maybe we applied 3 or 4 coats of sealer and we still had to apply another coat of sealer, sand again to put the varnish, so that it would keep away unwanted animals.

Luis was researching a lot about wood and this type of work since he did not know anything about this world, before starting this new "job" he was watching a lot of videos, the video that helped him the most was the following one:

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We were working very carefully because the hands of an artist, especially a musician are very, very delicate, this does not seem to be true, but it is, especially if it is a musician who plays a classical instrument, such as the classical guitar, his hands are quite delicate and you have to be very careful that his nails do not break or weaken, as these are used to play and achieve a good sound on the instrument.

My father-in-law and brother-in-law helped us a lot with sanding, painting, sealing and assembling the stands, we have not yet been able to varnish. Luis and his father were in charge of almost the whole process from now on, they made templates to know where they had to screw and looked for a place where that work would not bother the others since the dust from the wood bothers Luis' mother a little bit, it causes her allergy.

So we went to the back of the house and hid in a small alley so as not to disturb anyone hahaha.

There we were drilling, painting and doing many other things, it took us many days just sanding, then many other days sealing the wood because that kind of paint takes a long time to dry and it has to dry very well and as I said before after that we have to sand it again, then we have all the holes for the screws we put the stand together and we still need to varnish it to avoid damaging the wood or attracting unwanted animals, but for the moment Luis needs to use them like this without the varnish, because he has to finish soon a whole album for the singer he is working for, after he finishes the album we will continue giving the last touches to the stands and then we will move on to make a very, very important part of the room or the recording room of a musician, we have to make acoustic panels.

These panels serve to modify the frequencies in the room and prevent the sound from bouncing, each panel has a specification of what it is for, but they are very expensive and bringing them is a bit risky, so we have preferred to buy the wood to make the panels ourselves, but it is a more complex job, so we have not been able to start yet, we will wait for the album to be ready and for the singer to like it to be able to continue with the carpentry work.

Next challenge: making the panels

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Monday, April 04th