Cabinet facelift and general refinish questions
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hey all, let me start with a picture:
![](https://www.quiltingboard.com/members/greywuuf-u75206-albums17270-334244.JPG)
this is what I am working on. I am going to make the assumption that it is shellac finish ( and will test with denatured alky) my plan is to use either steel wool or a "scotch brite" pad and lots of alky to try an rub the top of this table. I am hoping to A: lighten some of the dark edges on the water stains and B: smooth the existing finish. I was then going to apply a new coating of Shellac. I was hoping this would preserve some but not to much of the used character of this old piece and brighten it up and preserve it.
my questions are...
Will this work ?
will I need to oil the dry area's first.... if So i assume I need to strip the whole top andd oil it all![Frown](https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/frown.png)
commens questions or suggestions welcome.
Thanks
Dan.
this is what I am working on. I am going to make the assumption that it is shellac finish ( and will test with denatured alky) my plan is to use either steel wool or a "scotch brite" pad and lots of alky to try an rub the top of this table. I am hoping to A: lighten some of the dark edges on the water stains and B: smooth the existing finish. I was then going to apply a new coating of Shellac. I was hoping this would preserve some but not to much of the used character of this old piece and brighten it up and preserve it.
my questions are...
Will this work ?
will I need to oil the dry area's first.... if So i assume I need to strip the whole top andd oil it all
![Frown](https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/frown.png)
commens questions or suggestions welcome.
Thanks
Dan.
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wow you have a lot of posts, I am looking but not sure where to even begin, are they in one of your albums possibly ?
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Dan - here's link to info of how my DH refinished a cabinet just like that for me. He used denatured Alcohol & tung oil. It came out stupendous!! You would not have recognized it from how it was when I got it.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...t-t173279.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...t-t173279.html
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hey all, let me start with a picture:
![](https://www.quiltingboard.com/members/greywuuf-u75206-albums17270-334244.JPG)
this is what I am working on. I am going to make the assumption that it is shellac finish ( and will test with denatured alky) my plan is to use either steel wool or a "scotch brite" pad and lots of alky to try an rub the top of this table. I am hoping to A: lighten some of the dark edges on the water stains and B: smooth the existing finish. I was then going to apply a new coating of Shellac. I was hoping this would preserve some but not to much of the used character of this old piece and brighten it up and preserve it.
my questions are...
Will this work ?
will I need to oil the dry area's first.... if So i assume I need to strip the whole top andd oil it all![Frown](https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/frown.png)
commens questions or suggestions welcome.
Thanks
Dan.
this is what I am working on. I am going to make the assumption that it is shellac finish ( and will test with denatured alky) my plan is to use either steel wool or a "scotch brite" pad and lots of alky to try an rub the top of this table. I am hoping to A: lighten some of the dark edges on the water stains and B: smooth the existing finish. I was then going to apply a new coating of Shellac. I was hoping this would preserve some but not to much of the used character of this old piece and brighten it up and preserve it.
my questions are...
Will this work ?
will I need to oil the dry area's first.... if So i assume I need to strip the whole top andd oil it all
![Frown](https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/frown.png)
commens questions or suggestions welcome.
Thanks
Dan.
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I like tung oil .... for gun stocks, at least the ones I don't want shiny, those get Linseed oil. For this project I am going to stick with the original manufactured method ( shellac ) I was hoping to not have to strip the entire cabinet, I was kind of shooting for blending or repairing what was on it.... more to the point I could do all of the one surface but I did not want to do the legs and the table extension. At least the drop leaf is close to original color and will give me something to try to match.
Thanks for the advice everyone. i will try to get some photo's of work in progress and let you know how it goes.
Thanks
Dan.
Thanks for the advice everyone. i will try to get some photo's of work in progress and let you know how it goes.
Thanks
Dan.
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Thanks again, and pictures of it when it is dry from this first strip.
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hey all, let me start with a picture:
![](https://www.quiltingboard.com/members/greywuuf-u75206-albums17270-334244.JPG)
this is what I am working on. I am going to make the assumption that it is shellac finish ( and will test with denatured alky) my plan is to use either steel wool or a "scotch brite" pad and lots of alky to try an rub the top of this table. I am hoping to A: lighten some of the dark edges on the water stains and B: smooth the existing finish. I was then going to apply a new coating of Shellac. I was hoping this would preserve some but not to much of the used character of this old piece and brighten it up and preserve it.
my questions are...
Will this work ?
will I need to oil the dry area's first.... if So i assume I need to strip the whole top andd oil it all![Frown](https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/frown.png)
commens questions or suggestions welcome.
Thanks
Dan.
this is what I am working on. I am going to make the assumption that it is shellac finish ( and will test with denatured alky) my plan is to use either steel wool or a "scotch brite" pad and lots of alky to try an rub the top of this table. I am hoping to A: lighten some of the dark edges on the water stains and B: smooth the existing finish. I was then going to apply a new coating of Shellac. I was hoping this would preserve some but not to much of the used character of this old piece and brighten it up and preserve it.
my questions are...
Will this work ?
will I need to oil the dry area's first.... if So i assume I need to strip the whole top andd oil it all
![Frown](https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/frown.png)
commens questions or suggestions welcome.
Thanks
Dan.
Texas Jan
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Mine looked just like yours. I used a citrus based varnish remover. When clean, it looked like a spotted pony. There were light and darker spots all over it. I used a Scotch Brite sanding pad and then used a good quality oil stain to bring the light color spots in line with the regular color. Looking back, a wood bleach would have made it all the same color and it would have perhaps taken the stain more evenly.
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