| Project by peterrum | posted 791 days ago | 1462 views | 1 time favorited | 7 comments |  |
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A quick little project. A friend of mine had this chair sitting out on thier deck and exposed to the elements for the last few years. It was badly weathered, water stained and had a couple of large cracks in the seat where the old joints had seperated. My friend was going to toss it out so I rescued it from the trash heap. Into the shop it went for a few hours of caressing with a scraper and some sand paper. Epoxied and clamped the joints back together. Finished it with a base coat of BLO then a top coat of about 1/4 cup of BLO with a dash of Minwax Red Mahogony stain. The tiny bit of stain showed off the grain much nicer than straight BLO. Now I have a new chair for the shop. The stamp under the seat of the chair shows that it was manufactured in Quebec on April 2, 1957. I hate to see a nice chair go to waste.
-- Carpe Diem
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#1 posted 791 days ago
Cool, I just put a new set of casters on an almost identical chair I also keep in my shop.
BTKS
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#2 posted 791 days ago
I hate to see people destroy something nice as this
good to see you brought it back to life
deffently worthy for the shop now
thank´s for sharing
Dennis
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#3 posted 791 days ago
Good Work! Waste not, want not.
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#4 posted 791 days ago
You just gave that nice chair another 50 years of life.
Good job !
Giving things another chancre has a special place in my heart.
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#5 posted 790 days ago
Nice save!
Phil
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#6 posted 790 days ago
Great save!
Once a year the town we live in has clean up day, everyone bring everything and anything they don’t want to the curb. I and several other drive around and save/salvage old works like you have and glean a healthy amount of woodworking/project wood as a bonus.
-- Kelly, woodworker under construction
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#7 posted 789 days ago
Bet your friend wants it back? Nice job!
-- Dan I.G.N.
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