Philco 45 Butterfly Restoration Chronicles....Finished
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Very Punny Kenny,
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"I will say this, If you use Oven cleaner for stripper, Gojo for a wood moisturizer , Howard's "Ignore a finish", or Polyurethane. And you are satisfied with these ?,.. then you won't be needing my help, I don't practice those applications."
Yeah I am not a fan of those ideas. Never tried oven cleaner but I like to hand sand most of the time unless there are detailed pieces or legs..
UGH legs stink,
I just finished collecting and placing every piece of old veneer and will glue today after some appts. Only missing a few pieces though. I think I may need to go very dark on the finish, like black toner due to water stains and very dark spots.
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Kenneth, thanks for the offer for advice on cabinet restoration!
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So you are gonna use this painted veneer?
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I want it as original as possible and will strip the veneer once secured to the new top and front.
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If you have already gone to all the trouble of making the new front, you may as well finish it with new veneer.
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New issue,
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Well the glue finally dried and I removed the planer and the table. It came out nice and flat, thank gosh!
Sanded it down, replaced the missing veneer I didn't have, then added the decorative raised veneer. Then I cut out the vent holes in the new top veneer and done for the day
Now it is again a waiting game:
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Looks great, im glad to see someone besides myself that would save a cabinet in such bad shape rather than trash it.
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Ok so cabinet now has a bottom, 2 sides, and a top!!
Have to sand the vents but new veneer is looking good.
Thanks Tab, where is my invoice for those radios... I wanna play with them ,LOL
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Trust me my wife wants them out of the living room floor as bad as you want an invoice, I will put that at the top of my list for sun. Now that its warmer I should get caught up.
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So I have glued and clamped, and now I have to wait 24 hours.
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Beer.....women....shooting rats in the basement with BB gun....
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Wine, Married, Only rat I have is my wifes chihuahua and I am out of Co2 cartridges anyway
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Clamps are off!
Next is filling all the defects, then grain filling and finally toning.
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Curious, What grain filler do YOU use?
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