Re-polishing a cabinet. Part 3

[Shane Watson]

Ok, So I hope we all had a relaxing long weekend! Made it hard to get up early this morning thats for sure!

I left of on Friday just having sanded the main carcus. So first thing on the job today was to sand the doors and get them to the same stage as the carcus. But as you can see in the following pic the doors have a very thick coating on them and its clogging up the sanding discs way to quick and scraping almost caused major damage to the veneer.



So off to my trusty stroke sander we go. This thing took that thick goo'ie stuff off no time flat. Just have to be very very careful not to sand anymore than necessary! Takes some practive I'll tell you as I would be lying if I said I hadn't sanded through the veneer in the past.



Actually before I put the doors under the stroke sander I sanded the edges first.



Argh, a bit a putty there & a wee bit here makes filling the grain on that nice burl veneer easier.



Now its time to cut the new back and shelf.



And in no time flat the shelf is fitted to size. I won't fix either the back or shelf yet, particularly the shelf as it will need to be stained & finished to match the rest of the internals.



Now its time to tackle that repair on the back cornor. I tried to take a better pic of the cornor, but it didn't turn out very well.



Now Smithy's response in Part 2 is very close to how I will repair this. I could have just filled it with putty or 'bog' and fauxed the grain while finishing, but I prefer this method. First I injected some glue under the loose layers in the substrate - but I did that last week so I filled it with 'bog' to level the hole with its side & top. Afte this cured I then cut a shape using a sharp stanly knife the carefully shave the bog down to the thickness of the veneer.



Now all I had to do was to find some old Walnut veneer (thats wasn't hard at all, I try and keep as much old timber/veneer offcuts as possible just for this instance) & cut it fit the shape I created. I always cut it over size so I can trim it back to size after it has been glued.



Then all I have to do is mix up some glue and glue the patch in place. Clamp it up carefully and leave it to dry.



And thats as far as I managed to get today. I was hoping to have managed to get the first coat on today but what with other jobs that need attention & then getting called out to site etc etc, needless to say I didn't get much done, but at least it gives that repair time to dry over night before I take the clamp off.

Again, please leave your comments/questions here & I will post Part 4 in a new topic.

Cheers!





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Shane Watson..

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[Glenn M]

Shane, mate, you are doing a fantastic job with this, keep it up!

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Glenn
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[Shane Watson]

Thanks Glenn. Next instalment has just been posted!
Cheers!