4th October 2020
The couple who bought the dresser that we rescued from the side of the road in June arrived to collect it. They had traveled from Portage near Kalamazoo, about an hour away. This would be the first sale of the month, a good start, so we needed to make sure it was all working. I had to fit the top and test all the drawers.
Like alway there is always one that is a bastard, gradual shaving of the central guide got it sliding the best I could, now it was waiting for our customer. The fact that they had already paid made the wait a little easier.
I got on with another dresser that Kelli had bought from Goodwill. I had lovingly stripped the paint of and prepared it for staining.
I used a pure black stain, but applied a conditioner first that limited how deep the stain went. This meant the the colour was more a grey than black, just what Kelli wanted.
The drawer fronts looked great, the top I was not so happy with.
Sometimes when sanding the wood with a course paper any areas that are softer get marked easier, often these are not seen until the stain is applied, as was the case here, my only recourse was to wash it off and sand it back.
In between all the other jobs, I had to add a centre channel to the drawers of another freebie dresser. We managed to get some spare guides from a friend, they weren’t the exact length, but I managed to make it work.
Now this dresser was ready to sell.
I was quite pleased how this one turned out. It had damage to the bottom of the side panels and the top had blown due to water damage, but with a ton of Bondo, and a new panel for the top it was complete.
Another Lifetime to go 