11th September 2021
The buyer for the French Provincial dresser turned up along with her “beefcake” husband/boyfriend. This unit was a heavy beast, but it was simple getting it to his truck, much harder to get it into it.
I wasn’t sure he cared about scratching the paintwork because of the way he handled it once we got it into the vehicle.
“ Ooo, I’m not fussy” said the young girl, the sun glancing off her double studded tongue.
This is not something we like to hear because we spend a lot of time checking all the paint, touching up if we think necessary.
We always give the buyer a small sample of the paint to touch up if it gets scratched, this might get used a lot on this piece.
With newly created space in the garage, we lifted down a mid century dresser that we were given for free. This was a great opportunity for me to use my new Purdey scraper to remove the finish off the top of the piece.
I had finished it in ten minutes,” Why hadn’t I got one of these before?” I shouted at Kelli.
“ Maybe I just wanted to watch you suffer”,was her witty remark.
I brushed a coat of oxalic acid to treat some water stains, and that will be ready for staining tomorrow.
There was an issue with the commissioned piece that was pointed out to us by the client.
The dresser had a quarter inch dip in the middle that they wanted taken out.
That’s not always easy to do, I have replaced warped pieces in the past, but I didn’t want to do this with this piece.
I could see the bottom front rail was attached to the facia with blocks and screws, once they were removed I could stick a leg in the middle of the piece that lifted it up removing the dip.
Now all I have to do is reposition the blocks, then hopefully problem solved.
Another Lifetime to go 