we're doing two buffets today Jamie just got done painting that one white it's really bright you can hardly see it so this one here used to have a little hutch top we're gonna eliminate that because it wasn't part of the original piece it looked kind of weird on there this one here this is what I wanted to show you so this buffet here the entire side right here was peeling away this leg was hanging out here too crazy angle and anytime you moved it you had to be real careful not to bump that or drag it because it wanted to pull away from the whole buffet so sometimes if you don't have a big clamp a ratchet strap is one of my favorite tricks this works on dressers drawers chairs they're amazing clamps and they go all the way around so while the straps on there holding everything nice and tight I'm gonna get this nailed back up you can see it had these tiny little finishing nails in there before I'm gonna go back in with 18-gauge pneumatic nail and that's gonna held in there nice and tight so Jamie put a thin coat of shellac on here before we got started but obviously she missed some spots she didn't do a hundred percent coverage just a real quick spray down where she thought there might be some problem areas all these little spots started popping up after so we're hitting them real good with shellac this is why a lot of times we wait to shellac until we've actually painted a coat on because sometimes you just don't know and you'll be all day trying to get full coverage of shellac on here so this right here's the reason I always suggest gluing your dovetails together instead of nailing them together someone's gone through and tried to hammer nails down through here and then once they realize that they split all the wood up what they did was they put like this hot glue or silicone or something all along here so now what I'm gonna have to do to fix this is a I could either dowel through the front of this I'm just gonna actually use the pneumatic nailer and nail into that but now I'm gonna have to go fix that because this drawer without replacing this outside those dovetails a shot I'm gonna put some wood glue in here just to help it out where I can I'm not sure how much of the wood glue will actually stick because there's not really a flat surface there anymore and then this is just a 24-inch clamp that I picked up at Harbor Freight I think it was like $8 $9 it may have been 12 at the most but super handy for doing drawer work like this I've got some DAP patch and paint it's a lot cheaper than wood putty it's not sustainable but I find that we get real good repairs it's great for covering up these little staple holes or little divots and things that I don't imperfections and since we're painting over this and not staining it anyway it's it'll be all right that's a good easy fix so we're gonna do a preemptive strike and see if we can shellac some spots like this and keep them from bleeding through beforehand we still may have some stuff pop up but I'm just gonna give this top a good coverage with the Zinser shellac right here on the front of this drawer I've got some peeling veneer it's got a crack in it that's pretty good so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna glue it and clamp it and someone's already tried to glue it so it's got a little bit of goofiness but I think I can still get it to lay down a little better and at least not you can kind of hear it at least not be flappy like that I'll let that sit for a minute and run down in as much as it can then I'll wipe it off on the face of it before it dries and clamp it since I painted the little buffet in white swan' I want to add a buffet with a little bit more color so I'm going with sweet Pickens milk paint in moody blue and I wanted to talk to you a little bit about mixing this paint I know we have a bunch of videos on it but it's my number one question comment concern is how to mix it and how to top control chippy or how to get more chippy once I really started using milk paint on a regular basis I invested about $20 maybe a little bit less and bought this inexpensive immersion blender this is the best way to mix your milk paint you can pick them up on Amazon I'll have zeb drop a link in case you're interested and don't feel like heading out to Walmart but seriously you can go to Walmart Target anywhere you can pick these up really inexpensive it helps mix your milk paint and not have chunks if you're not wanting to invest in one of these then I would suggest using a wire whisk and using warm water and then just keep whisking until the clumps are out it takes a good long time to get those clumps out by hand but you can't do it if you do happen to get a chunk out and you're painting and you see it don't freak out just let it dry and sand it it'll give it a fun little pockmark but definitely if you want a smoother consistency you're gonna want to use an immersion blender let's talk about chippie chippie is really something that I love not everybody wants it if I want no chippy at all and just a little light distress I don't use milk paint I use chalk paint or DIY paint you absolutely can get a lightly chippy you know lightly distressed piece with no paint but you need to use plenty of extra bonds I like to just add a splash of it just so that way I get a little bit of chippy and then I get the people that are like my didn't chip at all and I didn't use any extra bond sometimes if your piece is too dry it just soaks that paint up and it won't chip but here's a few tips if you didn't get enough chippy try reactivating the paint with water maybe even get out your blow-dryer or heat gun and see if you can reactivate it and get it to chip something I also like to do is I will go over the top of the milk paint I'll spray it with lacquer just like in a few areas that I want it to chip and then before the lacquer is all the way dry when it's just a little bit tacky I put a little bit more milk paint over it and sometimes you can get it to chip with that so there's just a few ideas that might help you one thing you need to know with milk you can't always control it the more you use it the more you figure it out but even I sometimes get surprised by it alright while that door is drying with the veneer we're going to go ahead and get this painted oh I got a squat to be in frame with Jamie are you saying that I'm sure yes very sure oh you got this mixed up thick that's all right we'll get a good coverage first coat so milk pink is really forgiving when you did when you stand over the top of this it'll sound super super smooth and you will almost see no brushstrokes the lighter colors you have to do more coats to get full coverage but these darker colors cover in two coats usually one and then a little bit of touch-up so when you need to reload your brush because it'll start dragging so we're gonna put the second coat on this this is what one coat looks like it's a little streaky but when you put that second coat on it covers it right up next step is distressing it didn't chip a lot along the edge here it's kind of flaking off and so when I stand that that'll all come off and we got a little crackle so we'll see what she does this buffet lived in our garage long enough that it got some white overspray on it when I distressed over the milk paint some of that white came through so instead of repainting the whole thing and wanting to poke my eye out I'm gonna be using the DIY white wax and I'm gonna white wax the whole piece and that'll make those white flecks that are coming through incorporate into the piece I like to kind of frame my piece out with white wax and then zebb comes behind me and he will usually clear wax it we don't wait because I don't want it to be too harsh and we kind of tag-team and we'll get this whole piece done I'll have to put the knob on it when your driveways tilted and you don't have the hardware on it all right I'm leaving it I'm walking we'll get that fixed in a minute I got to hurry up and get wax on all these white parts before they start drying out so I'm not gonna wait for this to dry before we kind of hit it with its first buff we've got a lot of excess wax on here because we're using the two colors the clear and the white so when I come back through it'll get rid of all these little streaky's and things and the white will just stay down in all the little cracks and then we'll have a little bit of hint of white where Jamie's put it and then the clear wax will just seal it up real nice okay so I'm now coming back behind here with a lint-free rag I picked these up for like 79 cents at IKEA and I'm just gonna buff this wax on and I'm buffing in the direction of the grain of wood so it doesn't look like all weird and splotchy I can't see if I'm in that yeah I think you're in you see me over on the side it's so big I'm having to squeeze in over here how's the weather over there it's pretty good it's a little hot yeah it's better inside the house I really think that the white wax transformed this buffet it needed some depth one solid chippy color just wasn't gonna do it yeah it turned out really nice even though we didn't get a lot of chipping from the milk paint once Jamie forced some of the chipping to happen it really allowed that white wax to get down in some of these cracks and crevices and even a few brush strokes here and there and made it look really old and aged you know for some people it's all about the dark wax for me it's all about the white wax I really think it's personal preference I just like the softness of it and it just kind of lends to my style I hope that we gave you some tips if you still have questions about milk paint o or you've tried it it didn't work out comment below and I will answer and help you any way that I can it took me about five or six milk paint projects before I fell in love and now I would say probably every third project I do is with milk paint sometimes every project it just depends on the mood that I'm in here's the products we use today sweet Pickens moody blue we used a little bit of extra blonde blonde next blonde that was me 20 years ago when you here we sorry we used a little bit of extra bond we used white wax clear wax paint pixie wax precious and the paint pixie one and three-quarter brush to make miss anything no I think that's everything all right we also sanded with our orbital sander and we use 220 fan paper to get it nice and smooth what are you doing what's up shut up it's really smooth I could take a nap on it if you know anyone who likes huge painted buffets be sure to share this video with them cuz we got one right here give us a thumbs up and subscribe to jamie ray mintage for more DIY