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It would be nice if the customer didn't attempt to repair things then bring them to me! Pieces missing and glued pieces are not straight and in line with anything? This ladies sister attemped to put things back after knocking the clock over and after gluing she drove flat headed brads in the very old wood and busted it into little pieces... I think the guy who built it did a great job for he took an old tin dial out of some kind of clock that didn't work anymore and made this many years ago...Varnish evidently was used in the finishing process. Me and varnish never did like each other.. I put a new movement in and here it is ready to deliver. I don't recognize the glue she used but it was all over everything... I also touched the flat headed brads with a black marx a lot? I also have some of these upholstery brads somewhere since one is missing? When repairing something this old one has to assume every kind of furniture polish and wax was used at one time or the other on this clock so its best to find an area that won't matter and if you are using spray lacquer in your repairing just don't do it out in the middle of something where you might have to end up refinishing the whole thing. This wood used back then was the regular pine plywood so there was enough light and dark areas all over the clock that I could do just about anything I wanted to the wood and finish and it would all blend in...I did recoat the entire front with satin lacquer so the same flat gloss was visible from top to bottom...otherwise the repaired areas would still be advertising big time!!! And it did away with the rough varnish look and feel!
