Welcome to Board meetings, where I chat about woodworking with my fellow Wood Whisper Guild members.

On today's installment, we'll discuss pre-finishing panels with Kyle, safety issues using tried and true varnish with Jason, and making hollow columns with Richard. Let's get to it.

Hello? Hey Kyle. Hey, how are you doing? Good. How's it going man? Oh, pretty good. Pretty good. I got a question regarding a pre-ishing door panels. Okay.

I'm finally building or coming to the completion of my wall hanging jewelry cabinet.

Okay.

And I've always used plywood.

This is the first time using real wood.

So I thought about pre-finishing the panel because the environment I live in there is large

humidity swings. So since you know to fit the panel in the car because there's going

to be a lot of the handling

and stuff of that nature. Should I just pre-finished the edges of the panel or should I go ahead

and pre-finished the whole panel? I was also thinking about only I'm using armicile

I'm sure that makes a difference. But should I finish the whole

panel or just the edges or what your recommendation.

Are you staining at all?

No, no.

Okay, well, sometimes at least the way I approach this

and I imagine other people do it differently.

For me, I like to, if I'm going to pre-finished, it's kind of like, once that

panels in there, you have a little bit of difficulty, you know, when you have an

unfinished frame around a finished panel,

you know, so it gets to be a little bit tricky what to do later.

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