HS: Dressing Up Our Boxes

I hope that some of the information about the typical types of sawing wood stuck with you. As a reminder, here are some great pictures of what we talked about.

As we begin to protect our birdhouses with paint, please remember what we talked about when applying a finish to wood. Sand the wood, and then choose the right treatment. For aesthetics in wood, the most likely choice is some type of stain, shellac, dye, etc. that would bring out the wood grain. But these types of treatment go into the grain of the wood and don't necessarrily protect the surface. For that on this project, we'll use primer and paint!