Native Brightworks of Seattle, WA is a company dedicated to high quality marine wood finishing and they love TufShield™. They are currently finishing a boat with TufShield™ and were kind enough to provide us with some photos of this project as its being completed.

Specifically, you'll see some closeup shots of the window trims and doors as they are being finished.

To the right, you'll see a side shot of the boat itself which is being finished with TufShield™ Base Coat and Top Coat Gloss.









Here is a photo of Paul who is the shop manager and finisher at Native Brightworks working on one of the window frames.





















To the right is another shot of a window frame being finished with TufShield™.























To the left is a closeup shot of an onboard window frame that has already been finished with TufShield™.



















To the right is a closeup shot of a smaller window that has already been finished with TufShield™.







As always, you can click on any picture to blow it up and view it in greater detail.

Labels: native brightworks, railing, tufshield, wooden doors

This is the seventh in an ongoing series of blogs related to a wooden home project in Chiang Mai, Thailand (the capital of northern Thailand) that is being finished with TufShield™. You can refer to the first blog entry regarding this project on January 9 to learn about the project background and to see some pictures of the untreated wood and the home itself as it's being built.

In this entry, we'll see some shots of antique wooden doors that were used in the home including the first shot to the right which shows one of the staff members cleaning a pair of Indian teak doors that are over 150 years old!

The Indian doors were previously coated with a blue and beige paint over the entire door - you can still see chips of the paint visible on both doors - but over time the paint eroded. The home owners wanted to maintain the total antique feeling of the colours so they left the paint remnants intact on the doors. By applying the TufShield™ Base Coat and then Top Coat Satin over top, it effectively "locked" in these colours and antique look while protecting the paint from eroding further and protecting the wood at the same time. In the words of the home owner regarding the final result:

"It came out fantastic!"










To the left, you'll see the doors after they've been finished with TufShield™. The wood has achieved a darker brown look without taking away from the antique look.

The doors are now protected against the elements with the standard TufShield™ application of 4 coats of Base Coat and 2 coats of Top Coat Satin.








All the pictures you will see below are of other antique wood doors that have all been finished with TufShield™ Base Coat (4 coats) followed by 2 coats of Top Coat Satin.











Here is a shot of a pair of 90-year-old teak wooden front doors that have been completely finished with TufShield™ but not yet installed.




















Here is a close up of one of the antique teak front doors that you just saw above.



















Here is a shot of the 150-year old Indian teak doors after having been installed.























Here is a shot of the two 90-year old antique doors after having been installed.













As always, you can click on any picture to blow it up and see it in greater detail.

In our next blog, we'll see additional photos of the finished wood as the house is being completed.

Labels: antique, front door, thailand, wooden doors