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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 20809 Location: sunny wales
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I've got two pieces waiting to be worked on, one is an old beech rocking chair that spent about 50 years covered in an annual layer of sticky brown varnish, them my mum bravely stripped it and painted it gloss white when I was little, then I tried to strip it back to the wood a few years ago, got half way through and ground to a halt. Need to get up the courage to attack it again, but it has lots of twiddly bits and I don't think I'm approaching it right.
My other one is my grans fireside chair (1930s I think), fairly utilitarian but needs taking apart and refitting (every joint is loose) and then re-upholstering, has one of those cushions that is horsehair over springs, very comfy but extremely dilapidated at the moment, I fancy it would make a nice bedroom chair if it was given a complete makeover.
As for finishes, I like a linseed and wax finish rather than varnish wherever possible, its getting the wood to a place to start doing the oiling and waxing that I could do with some tips on. I always seem to get the balance wrong between when to strip and when to sand/wirewool/scrape |
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Cathryn
Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 19856 Location: Ceredigion
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