In the video, the guy used Rustoleum enamel paint. Appeared to do the trick. Applied it with a small brush, dipping into the can.
I am sure sheāll love your work. My wife will still be away for v-day. I guess thatās a good news bad news scenario 
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I can buy two full sheets of birch plywood for the price of having flowers delivered. Soā¦ I can make her something and use the leftovers to do something else!
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That, sir, is excellent economics!
@madgrizzle May I use your photos in the newsletter tomorrow?
and @Keith May I use your photos of testing different materials and bits in the newsletter tomorrow?
Absolutely you may ā¦
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Ah, @madgrizzle stole my wording. Of course, @bar. You may use any photos I post here (that I donāt subsequently delete before the newsletter in question* 
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*caveat in case I accidentally post something then realize I donāt want it public and delete it. But if itās there on Tuesday before a newsletter, then itās fair game for that next newsletter. Can you tell I have to deal with lawyers in my job?
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quid dixit . . . . .
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I just finished the project (forgot to take a photo of itā¦ will tonight). I used 4 coats of spray shellac but will do some test pieces (with grooves) to see if I can just use the can/brush variety. I was worried that using the can/brush would result in too much shellac in the grooves making it difficult to wipe off the surface.
I sprayed the piece with black enamel spray paint and wiped off the paint on the surface using multiple rags and mineral spirits. With the mineral spirits, the paint came off easy. I just needed lots of rags. Only issues I ran into was that some of the carved areas were āwideā (i.e., not 1/8-inch channels, but a profiled space). When wiping the paint off the top layer, the rag would pick up some of the paint from the wide areas. But all in all, it worked well and will probably use this technique in the future when doing outlining. Iāll edit this post tonight with a picture of the final piece.
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Hereās the āfinishedā project. I think sheāll like it. I still need to sand down the edges (paint apparently causes the āfrizziesā to come out on cut edges of plywood) and finish the varnish.
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Excellent work!
Thank you
in watching the shows on woodworking, a common thing to do is to dampen the wood to get the grain to swell up, then sand it flat while damp and the result is especially good.
This sounds like the same type of problem
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Thanksā¦ Iām new to all this and appreciate the tips
That is awesome! Great job. I am sure she will love it.
That is quite impressive.
I donāt know if your wife gave you a hard time about you buying your CNC machine but I bet that if she did she will no longer have any problems with it.
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lolā¦ sheās not in a position to complain about me spending money.
She likes showing off my workā¦ sort of a āsee how amazing my husband isā¦ā kind of thing.
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That has never stopped my wife from commenting on what I spend my money on.
Her latest is talking about my āCDCā machine and about my progress in building it.
I do too! Canāt wait to put it in the newsletter 
Really beautiful work on this one!
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Good thing Valentineās day is Wednesday
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Soā¦ I did some research and Iām not confident where I got the image for the Millennium Falcon was authorized to provide it as it was. As Iāve seen this image available for digital purchase, to be safe, Iāve removed it from the community garden. I donāt know if the person selling it is authorized to sell it (was it derivative work?) but I donāt want there to be an issue regardless. Iāll work on a wiki post that describes the process of taking an image and making it into gcode. I apologize if this causes an issue.
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