13th January 2023
My heart just wasn’t in to it today.
After breakfast, and while I was waiting for a Skype call (that didn’t happen) I went into the garage, that was particularly cold, to start on the last part of the chair.
There were a couple of areas on the back that had to be revisited, but once that was done I had the seat to scrape.
That is when a cloud of misery descended, and I could get excited about the process.
This chair had been particularly hard to strip because there was no other layers of paint under it, so I was scraping the black directly off the oak which meant it stained the wood.
This required a lot of sanding to get to a clean surface, enough to cause a blister on my thumb, maybe that changed my mood.
Finally I got all the chair parts finished, and needed to reassemble. First I had to remove the inserts from the bolts.
I believe these chairs come into the US in component form from China and are finished and assembled locally. When I removed the bolts, the inserts came out with them because they were gummed up.
Therefore I had to heat them up to release the bolt, once that was done I could screw back the insert and reassemble the chair, job done.
Kelli finished the tall dresser, we took pictures, posted it, it sold and was picked up in the evening, I was feeling better already.
Another Lifetime to go 