Old Dressers

I refinished these Red Mahogany dressers about 10 years ago. They are about 55 years old. The tall dresser was mine and the smaller was my sister’s. She had painted hers 6 times. Mine was left as is. I stripped both and sanded with various grit paper ending with 400. I did use a dental pick to get onto the small pieces, mixed the stain to match the original color that had a lot of red. I used minwax red oak as a base then added a dark red paint and stain tint. after some trial and error it matched perfectly. The finish was about 6 coats of oil poly sanded between coats with 400. These dressers have been for my wife and I since completed. I must say I was very proud of these although you can’t tell from the bad quality pictures. Sorry about that. The red tones in the pictures look more orange but they are not.

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-- Bob K. East Northport, NY