An antique is 100 years or more. Mid century is 60 years and more while vintage is less than 60 years. I love watching old being made new. You are a perfectionist. 😉😉😉
That "antique" table was made the month before I was born; I'm not sure how I feel about that! Lol! Beautiful piece, and great tips on how to refinish something with so much detail.
Tip: with the sand paper you can back strips of sand paper with duct tape or other tape to keep it from ripping or cracking when you bend it and it makes it easier to use in a “shoeshine” way. I picked up that tip from Alec Steel, a blacksmith I follow here on RU-vid.
I couldnt help seeing their faces when I was editing so I just decided to draw them on there. Figured a few other people would think it was funny too. :) thanks for watching.
For the very detailed legs us the stripper and then scrub with the steel wool pads to get it off. Also you can use a drill and wire bristle bits to get the finish off too. Amazing job! The final result was great!!!
When I was a kid, my siblings and I helped my parents strip a round oak table and chairs . We used a small wire brush with brass bristles for the fine detail and it worked well. I had to laugh at the date of the table...same month I was born! Love your videos, thank you for posting them.
Wow! Nice job! That was alot of work! I used to do body work on cars. For those hard to get to places, you can use a dowel or popsicle stick, paint stick, even a coin, and wrap your sand paper around it to get to those hard to get to spots. We call the "fine mist" a tack coat in the biz 🤪 😉 Your table turned out very nice!
Painting furniture is my main thing, but I do enjoy refinishing wood tops. This was my first FULL strip/stain project in before I start working on larger projects. I'll be doing a video sometime soon where I buy a painted dresser from someone and strip/restore it. 😃
Thanks for the tip on the plastic backed sand paper. I had no idea that existed! Great job on the spindles...I can see all the time you put into the legs.
Thanks for ur vids! With all the civil unrest going on in the Chicago area and suburbs today, it was nice to focus on rehab!!! Thank u and greetings from Illinois
Looks great!! I get intimidated by detailed pieces but this video helped!! Thank you for sharing. I enjoy your videos and you explaining without too much extra 🤣🤣to the point
Nice color stain and you have done a good job on stripping and sanding off. My first thought when you didn't have gloves on while applying scraping off gooey stripper stuffs was that, OMG, that thing is eating your skin out easily. I used the same stripper and it ate up 2 pair of my thick kitchen gloves at spots that it touches. I am glad to see you had gloves on later. Made me feel better. Thank you for sharing your work.
Wow! Beautiful end result but those legs seem like a lot of work and time. I have four vintage bar stools I want to do this with but can’t imagine going through all of that sanding 😱😱😱
Great to see you back! I'm from Arlington, have missed watching your work. Christina and I made comment about you. Both of us think your great. Can't wait to see your next video. Stay safe.
Thank you so much for sharing I have lots of my father-in-law's old furniture and been wanting to redo it so glad I found your Channel you've been very helpful loved your finished piece looking forward to your next showing thanks again God bless
Awesome job! Certainly was labor intensive, but looks great. LOVE your tutorial style, you explain every step in detail, not only how you are doing it, but why. Love to watch you work. Hope to see the next project you have. Thanks for sharing :)
Very informative, thank you! Love your videos because you explain the process, and reasoning for choosing the products you use. I learn a ton watching them :)
If you use the stripper with the course steel wool on those hard to reach areas it will work great to get the stain out. Great work! I enjoy your videos
Really enjoy your videos! Sometimes I am surprised at what I see you starting to do and then it turns out so great - like the pallet wood on the top of that bookcase - it turned out awesome!! Keep them coming!!
A softer brass bristle brush or 3m scrubby pads work well getting the remaining stripper out of all those grooves. Lee Valley & others make some great little shaped detail sanding pads. There's also an even more flexible backed sanding paper; I think by 3m also? The "paint" you stripped of is more likely a toned laquer. Nice save! That detail work is so painful AND satisfying when done 🤟
If I were closer to you I would so totally hire you to restore my grandmother's big huge kitchen table that has been given to me....I'm pretty sure it's not in the best of shape since my grandma never really took care of anything including her health.... Haven't seen in many years I just have to go and pick it up and hopefully salvage what I can .... hopefully it's still decent enough to restore all of it...if not I will use what I can ....the memory of her around it just means the world to me....most will see it as junk ... 650$ table back in the day with chairs too .... gotta be somewhat restorable I'm thinking ☺️😉😁
Fantastic video, thanks for making such an informative video and telling us exactly what you were using. My mum wants me to restore an old cupboard for her, so I've saved this video.
Thanks, this was video number one in what i think will be a long research process to learn where to start to refinish our 100-year-old English dining table and chairs. Here in Japan almost no one would attempt a DIY job of the kind our table will need, because everyone is so busy working that jobs like this are left to expensive pros. I am English, though, and saw my dad do stuff like this when I was young. Anyway thanks for being the starting point of our research...
