Wood Work Collection

Just a quick peek for you.

George bought a little antique dresser last week and very

excitedly arrived home with it in his van anxious to show me.

Looking at it in the back of the van, I have to admit

I was perplexed because it looked nice as is.

I had assumed it was for me to work on.

He knows my motto

"if its not broke dont fix it"

It had rich color in the wood, beautiful hardware

but once I get closer I realized how short it was,

at about 27". We have been looking for a special

piece for ourselves to fit along a low window.

Now this started to make sense, however it also has

to be very shallow which this was not at 20" deep.

NOT GONNA WORK FOR US

i love you george

I have been toying with the idea of turquoise

and now I have to come up with a plan to refurbish

the thing. Of course the first thing was

to put some casters back on it to give it a bit more

stature. Then George shows me some repairs that it

needed. The insides of the cabinet and drawers

definitely would benefit from attention. The top

surface varnish was bubbled all over.

Okay this is sounding better, I like to be needed.

But I didnt have a clear vision and it was sitting in the middle of my work space and something

had to happen. The top couldnt be painted without being stripped.

If I have to strip it I want to stain it dark walnut. Thats a start! That will go with turquoise.

So I removed the top to take outside to do the dirty work.

When removing it I found something, half a post card stuck

between the frame and the top.

Addresser was:

Mr David Brown

1256 Davie St.

Vancouver BC

It reads "arrived at _____ johston. He is a big boy,

was asking for you. The picture on this card is the

hotel I stayed at in NY"

signed: "Father"

See the post mark?

1919

Okay now back to the dresser

Trial and Error ....

I finally ended with something I adore ...

Let me know what you think ....

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Busy busy! I posted a pic of the two dressers I picked up as sibling pairs.

The smaller one is in the previous post. Here is big brother. I thought keeping them as

a pair, but the thought of painting the same colors for the 3rd time, plus the likelihood that someone

would purchase both pieces, didnt sit well with me. So I kept with the aqua theme since that seems to be in vogue at the moment. I had originally thought about doing a nice cobalt color since this piece

seemed a bit more masculine. But it just didnt look right. Thats why if you look closely at some of the pics, you will see a hint of that blue underneath. The rest of the piece got ASCP in Coco.

This was a pretty solid piece. The drawers were in outstanding condition. But that thing on the front
was just killin me!! Some funky coat-of-arms thing. Even the owner didnt know what it was.
The hardware was awesome. See how black it is?? Hub used some brasso and put them all
through the polishing wheel. They turned out awesome. Except for one. It went MIA. All of them were there during polishing. But when I went to put them on, I was missing one. Crap. I had to rob one
off the shorter one.