At the first order of business is to carefully disassemble the table. I start by removing the base from the troll which involves removing a few small screws. Then, I detach the two table top halves from a support braces which thankfully we are not glue down. It is never a good idea to glue anything to a solid wood table top in across grain orientation. Screws and oversize holes on the other hand, allow the top to expanding contract while also allowing us to easily detach the table top.
Now, I decided to try scraping the finish of one of the top pieces just to show you how much fun it can be. Now, I told choice for this a number 80 cabinet screw scraper. You could also use a standard card scraper or even about sander with a little bit of patience, a whole lot of able grease and a tiny pinch of magic, the finish will be often no time, no time at all. Sometimes you got to get creative come on Buddy you can do it. Come on. Come you are the ratio ray of woodworking get it done. Go men, go!
Well, I certainly do admire anybody who scraped that entire table top by hand. Fortunately, I got some high tech tools that will save me a lot of time and certainly save my back. We just going to use the drum sander to buzz this entire top down get it down the bear wood, but maybe two to three passes all the ways goes and try the see the dust collection band and it really going to save us a bunch of time. So, tie it on over there.
The drum sander is an awesome tool that is basically consist of a rotating drum wrapped in sandpaper and a conveyer belt that passes a piece of wood underneath It make quick work of TD sanding test. Now, everyone will have one of this and if you do not you might want to find a friend that it does and you can see after just a few jobs like this a drum sander paste for it self check that out. Super smooth.
We are just getting my self a little bit a sand paper and I saw something that you guys might be interested in. This maybe old news for lot of you but this is just a little sand paper tear off jig that I made. I use the same in block a lot and it is just require a certain length, actually it is evenly visibly. So, there is really no waste but if you get just some scrap plywood, nice new hatchels blade and you screw the blades in the end.
And then you get a piece of plywood as a stopper for the exact spacing that you need for that piece of sand paper just pushing up against the edge like this. Tear down just like it is a cellophane or aluminum foil in the kitchen. And I want to saw and set and done. You got this perfectly size strip saw sandpaper ready to go for whatever system you use.
And one really cool trick that you have to be a little bit careful with is if you have a complex profile like we have here and so round over and a little bit of a cuff. I am sure they use the single bit to create this and I do happen to have this bet on him, but I do want to clean up most of this extra material here. And since this is engrain, this is going to be really stubborn and pretty difficult to get the extra stain and the poly out of those deep corners. So, one quick way to do it and again, I have to distress you should be very careful especially if you are working on antique and something with history you do not want destroy this piece. You really do not want change anything.
You want a sort of lightly touching. So, the idea here is to take any router a bit that you have not in your collection that might just grease the surface. You do not have to do the entire thing in one shot, but maybe for instance in this case I have got a round over bit here and the round over has a bearing on it. That bearing is going to ride against the surface and as it goes is going to re establish this curve and in fact, it is really not going to change of much at all. You just going to take off enough material so that it cleanse it up for you and makes a lot easier and a lot bless sanding for me to do. Let us give a chance see how it turns out.
Now, you can see there is a nice clean edge here all I have to do is given a light sanding and that is really not need to be touch any anymore. Where we do have a little it more material to remove is in this corner here, right does not want to slop up into this next section.
Difficulty here is a fact that I do not have a bit that is going to allow me to do that in one shot, and it will be nice. If I did but I do not, so I am go actually draw my little scraper here across the edge with a very carefully, very slowly, go back and forth and it has going to help me clean up as well. Do you have any areas like here in the front that needs to be removed the scraper is great for that and if do not have a route a bit that fits the profile. This is the way you probably going to have to go about it. Use the scraper to remove the excess material until you can go down through a piece of sand paper.
I am going to follow this up using another bit probably this little covet also known as a core box pit and if I use that in conjunction with this little router fans, I can actually get in a nice straight line using the edge of the table as my guide come across here and is going to clean up this inner edge. So, really, the only thing that I going to have to clean up manually should be this outside corner here and this is really enough to bear considering.
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