When I found this button press in a local junk shop, I didn’t know exactly what it was used for. I don’t think even knew it was called a button press. It did look like it might be useful. From looking up the Handy Button Machine Company, I found out it’s used with a set …
As I was putting the finishing touches on the bedroom furniture, I wanted to make sure I documented how the repairs looked after I was done. Here are the cracks on the edge of the top and base of the night stand. These were repaired by putting a bead of CA glue in the crack …
Well, it wasn’t intended to be a Mother’s Day present, but I timed it pretty well. After letting the lacquer cure for several days, it was time to put the finishing touches on this furniture. To cut the gloss sheen from the lacquer back, I started with 0000 steel wool, and rubbed the finish until …
This past week, I got these two pieces out of the attic, sanded them and made a few repairs. Now it’s time for stain and finish. After sanding, I got rid of most of the dust with a brush and the air compressor. But to get the best finish you can, you need to remove …
Thankfully the dresser and nightstand didn’t need any major structural repairs. However, while sanding everything, I did find a few small cracks and good sized patch of missing veneer. Since I was hoping to wrap up the finishing this weekend, I knocked out these little repairs this evening. The bottom shelf and top of the …
This one has been in the works for a while. One Saturday over ten years ago, my then-girlfriend, now-wife, got a call from her Dad. Her old bedroom set that her sister was using was being replaced. If she wanted her furniture she needed to come get it. Soon. Seeing how it originally came from …
Sometimes things come up and we have to walk away from a project and plan on coming back to it on another day. Two weeks ago, I wrote about stripping and sanding the top of our kitchen table. The next day, I got a little work done staining and sealing the top. Since then, with …
One of the projects on my current list is to refinish our kitchen table top. When we moved into this house six years ago, we put this table in our attic for storage. We recently brought it down to use, and found the damage from previous use was worse than we remembered. The attic environment …