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Hi Everyone! I'm a newbie posting from Cape Town and probably breaking all the rules by posting as soon as I joined. The wife just obtained a mock Chinese Medicine cupboard with 20 drawers and asked me to refurbish it. I have begun to sand the top (pictures attached) but can't decide how to finish it so I am looking for your advice and guidance. The only other piece I have refurbed is a 1915 Haller wall clock for which I used an equal mix of linseed oil/turps/clear polyurethane after sanding and it came out quite well. The thing that worries me is that this cupboard has either a dark stain or coloured sealant of some sort so I think I would be sanding forever to reveal the actual wood texture in order to use the same method which is really a clear finish. I have a feeling there will always be some dark patches from the original finish. I've obviously done some googling but the number of options I end up with make me even more confused! - stain or oil or a coloured polyurethane or shellack or a mix of everything!! If you are kind enough to advise me try not to use product names as most likely they are not available here, rather describe what they comprise of or their classification so I can search for an equivalent this side of the world. Thank you for spending the time to read my post and I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Michael. Quote
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Tales of the repair guy 1. One job yesterday was to repair a leg on the back of a sofa that had collapsed. I'd say "medium quality" market. Open it up and find the frame and the support block made of that terrible Chinese plywood that must be held together with duck spit. You know, the kind that is 7-12 layers, depending on where you look? Overlaps, voids, plies that look like fine straw? I could literally pull that corner support apart with my fingers and the side frame was not much better. Not to mention those structural staples trying to hold it together. Replaced it with some solid hardwood. Lady watching me was impressed and thought it would be better than new. Yep. 2. I made a couple of free-standing linen cabinets last year. The lumber store led me to their premium ply, what they call "Dragon Ply." This is a large commercial distributor. Told me they have an inspector in the plant, assure high quality, they import a bunch of it and "the Amish love it." So I decided to give it a go. Every time I touched a fresh cut edge, I got these microscopic splinters from the thin face veneer. So fine I could fell them, but not see them, which made removal a problem. Had to back order the 1/4" stuff for the back. When I got it to the shop it looked like a Dorito to the point It was hard to even cut it and keep it against the fence. Never again. 3. I used to have a retail customer that would fly to Mexico, pick up "marble" (limestone) circular table tops and rent a truck to haul them back. He'd have me cut plywood in his warehouse to attach underneath so we could screw on the bases. Most were more than 4' diameter so it would involve a couple of pieces. He was telling what a great deal he got for this plywood at Home Depot. Didn't think much about, but I was not really impressed. He grabbed the cutoffs there and took them out to the covered loading dock in preparation for hauling to the dumpster. Just a light mist but he wanted to wait and make trips when it stopped. I needed to cut a second piece for the table I was working on and I remembered one of the cutoffs would probably work so I walked over by the loading dock. The piece was there, not really wet, but delaminated complete in the high humidity. Like I said, "duck spit" adhesive. Side story: A few months later, he lost his store lease and decided to close the store, have a clearance sale and he and his wife would take some time off. Couple of years later, they bought the lease for a store that was another customer and restarted the business. About six months later, he was busted for hydroponically growing marijuana in his warehouse and working with a ring to sell it at a local high school. Wife kept the business running while he was in the slammer, got out in a few years, and shortly thereafter, gave up the second store. So maybe he was not just bringing tables back from Mexico. His grow operation was in a warehouse that I never worked in.
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Been watch a Chinese set of vids lately.The fellow in these has some SERIOUS chisel skills. While some of his videos do have Closed Captioning, most do not. Sometimes, you just turn the sound off, and just sit and watch. First in a series of three on building a Jack Plane The one bench he uses makes my rearend hurt.The "Hammer" he uses is very nice. He does start the swings BEFORE the chisel is set, sometimes, and still hits the mark. Got a piece of Oak, all marked up, and awaiting MY poor chisels. I'll just use my "Normal" hammer for mine. A look at the iron, and a side view of the blank. Irons sit in the rear third of the body, on these. Top view. Lots of lines to cut at. The triangle area is the escapement area, with the two "eyes". Not all that big a plane, either.Still have to make a through mortise for the crossbar "handle" to go through. Now, I think Arlin is lusting after this chunk of wood 11/4 by 11/4 by 22" long. Yep, it is a green colour. Know of any use for it???
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