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I am taking a closer look at the top of the table. I see if you are interesting things first of all more evidence to this being a nice salad piece of Mahogany is the profile on the edge if this were a venire it would be very difficult for them to get a Mahogany edge this thick. This would have to be in applied piece of solid material in a base of some sort if he could and there is really a realistic way that they can get this smooth of a grain flow through out so that is another good sign. Few other things I noticed there is a lot of flows in the top that we are going to remove. But, most importantly it looks like when they attach the hard ware to the bottom of the table they may have either pressed drilled encountered board a little bit too deep where they just used to screws that was too long, because we got a few holes here that clear indicators that is screw come up a little bit too high but we got ways of dealing with a little issues like that, so that should not be a problem.
The other thing I want to take a look at is the center lift now it is a little bit hard to pull this apart and that is part what I am fixing in this process, but will see if we can get it there. I show you how this whole thing works.
Maybe not, can you help m? You can leave it on. Just pull both sides and we go. Now it is already broken I got to fix it, okay forget it. Here we go, okay.
They are lovely and beautiful Nicole’s Spreck everybody. I do not know if you could see the details on the shot here. It is pretty cool I actually never seen this before but I do not do a whole lot of refinishing so that might be why. But if you check it out this part of the lift it is actually secured with some sort of a Del that is in the side of the apron and the whole piece rotates on that dell. There is a hinged in the middle with a pretty unique hinge here and actually allows this piece to fold out, all along the side there is dell here and along this the left side lift so that is once everything is down you should be able to pop everything together like that and that is pretty good for such an old table to actually to be this level. It is a pretty good condition.
One other thing I look for is on the inside edges of a lift I try to follow the wood grain down the side and see if it is actually the same material. The in this particular case, you can see that the manufacture really has an applied much finish partly even stain on the inside and that is actually works in our favor, because now is like I can very clearly see that this is Mahogany straight through. Now may seem like I am putting a lot of emphasis on this topping made out of solid wood built if you refinish a few pieces of furniture and dealt with a venire top you know exactly what I am talking about and how easy it is to burn right through out that venire going to this sub layer of the you know the sheet that the material that the material is made out of and in the piece is just destroyed and the only choice is to really, if you have some clever way of covering it up you could do that or you just re-venire the top, so really a solid top it going to help us avoid all together and really give this customer a nice completely refinish brand new surface.
One of the first things I like to do is to determine what type of finish is actually on this is it a lacquer, is it a polyurethane it is some industrial venial something or whether that would never going to be get off. That is going to tell me a lot about the approach that I am going need to take and how inbound I need to get and I actually getting us finish off. You can always strip it just about anything that going come off with the stripper but that is very pretty nasty it is extremely caustic and I really not you know rather not used it if I do not have to. So the first thing I want to do is wipe this surface down with a little bit lacquer turn it out, just from looking at it. I do not think that this is lacquer. After a while you get a good idea of the appearance of different finishes shellac, lacquer, polyurethane and you could sort of tell.
Now if this lacquer, the interesting thing about lacquer it is a solid base finish so no matter how long this locker is if I put lacquer thinner in that surface I actually will re-melt the lacquer. Re-activate it and I should be able to wipe it off and with enough lacquer thinner I could wipe down to the bare wood. And in some cases if it is a lacquer table I might do that because I rather do with a little bit of a lacquer fumes or lacquer thinner fumes then actually deal with nastiness of a chemical stripper. I am just confirming what I thought this staff is not bulging at all that indicates pretty much to me. I am pretty much confident but this is a polymer thing surface. Okay nothing is really coming off I am sort of cleaning the table and that is about it. I will also mention just a quick safety tip obviously if you are using lacquer thinner or any kind of chemical that has a strong router like this you want to wear a respirator, you want to protect your eyes, protect your hands, you may even protect you arms, any place you have expose skin that was just a short duration and it is hard for me to talk to you with the respirator on so, I am going to forego one for now.
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