Furniture Refinishing

While refinishing furniture I have come across magnificent antiques and sometime I came across pieces that were almost not worth fixing up. Sometimes they would bring it to me in boxes all in pieces and tell me to fix it & refinish it. Sometimes the piece was in good shape. In this region you often come across Art deco style furniture. A lot of time I get pieces with at least 10 coat of paint on I even did pieces that had been outside for a long time No matter what shape its was in when it was finished I have never had a complaint from a client after a job is compleated. I have been told that I am too fussy but to me it has to look great when it comes out of my shop period. I do all stripping by hand. I don't believe in dipping furniture for several reasons. It loosens glue joint, It lifts veneer, It can warp wood and discolor the wood. I have seen antiques that were ruined by dipping it in a tank. There is one advantage to dipping, it is a lot faster than by hand and it is cheaper than by hand. You get what you pay for. I always do all the sanding by hand. A power sander leaves a lot of awful looking swirl marks on the wood that shows through the finish. Especially on darker stained wood. The finish that I put on furniture is either lacquer or varnish. Lacquer is a whole lot faster to apply than varnish. I can spray 3 or 4 coat of lacquer on a chair in a few hours but varnish takes about a day for one coat to dry. So it is a lot cheaper to get a lacquer finish than a varnish. If it is a valuable antique then you should put varnish for the finish. I have a few pictures of some furniture that I have refinished check them out. I will be putting some more up in the future.

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