Saturday, November 20, 2010

Staining

We decided that, since this old piece of furniture had so many little cuts and ink stains, we'd stain it a darker color--walnut fit the bill--but before we stained it, there were a couple of places where the wood needed to be patched with wood filler. That's kind of a toss-up, because, not matter how much you buy real wood looking filler, and sand it into shape, it still looks like someone stuck a piece of old gum in the crack and filled it, but we still tried, thinking that from a distance it would look like a knot hole or something. Anyway, here's the sanded product. It's all ready for sealer and polyurethane.



Tomorrow:  The finished product

4 comments:

SunnyBrook said...

It's looking amazingly better!

~PakKaramu~ said...

Good morning teacher

Roshelle said...

Love the bubblegum analogy.... it's looking great. I'm glad there was pretty wood underneath all that paint. Sometimes we don't get so lucky.

Rose said...

you are getting there. looks good. thanks for your sweet comment on my post re change. take care rose