I put a couple layers of primer on those boards and about five of CAL Ranch paint.
I finally had my brother help me move Dad's old treadmill into the garage and bring in my dresser.
For the first time in 3 years I have a dresser!
The "interesting mix of socks and books" that
freebeard noted are properly stored!
I found the original paint I bought!
Hopefully that works better than the CAL Ranch stuff.
I used a speed square to mark the 45° cuts, but there is a gap on each outside edge. I read the best way to fill that is with caulk, but I couldn't find anything on-line that explained the best exterior caulk that can withstand freezing temperatures.
Having reread the thread (that Xist guy is hilarious!), I am thinking that I should buy a can of Bondo and write Minwax on it.
Well, these guys say to not use Bondo outside because the wood expands and contracts, but Bondo doesn't, so it will fail:
They say to use some epoxy. I cannot find anything specific. It is allegedly on
this page somewhere.
What if, instead, I buy a router, and cut a V-groove on each corner, cut a piece to fit, glue it in place, and tack it with finishing nails?
I am sure that many people would say to redo it, but cutting V-grooves and replacement pieces sounds vastly easier than planing new boards dozens of times.
This is what it took to get the first four boards:
This is what I did today:
I forgot to leave a board for scale.
A 2x4 is 1.5" thick.
The rough-cut house trim is 1" thick.
The planed house trim is .75" thick.
A 1x4 is .5" thick.
However, the original trim is about 3.5" wide, so I planed 2x4s, 24 passes each board, but planing 2x6es would have required about another 64 runs.
24/88 = 27%, so I did about four times as work as I needed to the first time. Of course, as JSH mentioned, a table saw would have trimmed the sides in one pass, and would have made it thinner with two passes, although I would need to do four to square all four corners.
I should have been able to make a rig to trim 1.75" off of a 4x6, but I wouldn't try that for the faces.
You aren't supposed to measure trim per se, you just hold up each board to the window, and mark it that way. Honestly, that sounds easier and more accurate than using a measuring tape, but since I messed up the corners, I think that I will measure it, add 1/8", make sure that everything is square, nail the corners together, and then saw both pieces at the same time.
Even if I get the angle wrong, they will be complementary, so I should be good.