Posted in Furniture, tagged chair, Danish oil, restore, sanding, upholstery on 22/07/2016| 4 Comments »
It’s taken me 5 years to get around to restoring this chair. It’s the third of four pieces of furniture I bought in Tarrington, near Hamilton, in June 2011. (The others are a wooden chest , a kitchen chair and a three-legged side table that’s still on my to-do list.)
The chair was described by the shop owner as being oak. I could tell it wasn’t but it was solid and I liked the proportions and the carving on the backrest, though not so much the upholstery job.
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Posted in Other interesting things, tagged Danish oil, lamp, lamp base, light fitting, sanding, sandpaper, vertical drill press on 27/12/2014| 2 Comments »
My friend Moira and I have just made ourselves a couple of lamps. We love the results but we don’t think it’s the start of a whole new craft career.
… in just a few complicated steps.
Posted in Furniture, tagged beeswax, Danish oil, orbital sander, paint stripping, restore, sanding on 22/06/2014| 4 Comments »
The cupboard I bought at Mt Buffalo last month is now restored. It took quite a bit of effort for a piece of furniture that is – honestly – not the most brilliant example of cabinetmaking.
It’s hard to imagine what this cupboard would have looked like when it was originally built. There are tell-tale signs that it wasn’t ever intended to be a fine woodworking piece. The cabinet top has a narrow strip of joined wood running across the back edge, as though someone ran out of the right timber, and the whole top has been nailed straight onto the carcass. There are odd gaps and bad joins around the base of the cabinet and the interior varnish has been applied sloppily.
At some stage at least one of the shelves must have been refitted. And the door looks like it got opened back too far one day and it split – it was repaired with glue and nails. Still, the cupboard is part of the Mt Buffalo Chalet story and that makes me happy.
Posted in House renovation work, tagged leadlight windows, paint stripping, sanding, undercoating, window ledge, window sill, wood fillers on 09/09/2013| 2 Comments »
I’m not sure if this is supposed to be a ‘how-to’ post or a show-and-tell story.*
We’re getting four of our five leadlight windows completely replaced in a few weeks, and the existing window ledges all needed to be stripped, sanded, filled, sanded, undercoated and sanded ahead of the new windows going in.
Our leadlight windows are lovely – from a distance.
Up close they’re a mess. That’s why we’re paying someone for new ones.
Third bit from the right 