Home Improvement Projects

[BrianR]

Since we no longer have LJs Office with it's attendant wood project thread, I started this one.

First off, I now have a load of furniture to refinish. Chest-of-drawers, highboy, two night tables, a buffet table and a kitchen table and chairs (veneer, I doubt I can do much with those). The bedroom CoD and night tables all have real marble tops.

Stripper (no jokes, please) seems to take off the finish and the underlying coat of (paint/primer/undercoating) with no trouble. I will try to scrape out the scrollwork with a plastic scraper but may have a little trouble there. The buffet table has a broken/missing leg that will have to be replaced. I will try to duplicate the other one on a bandsaw and a sander but may have to fabricate all new legs. Hardware is mostly good, but one drawer handle looks cracked...maybe I can solder it back together.

Pictures will happen when I can borrow a camera and get back to the house. Figure on the second weekend in January. I have to go there anyway, might as well make a long weekend out of it.

Brian