9th September 2023
We finished one of the small dressers that we picked up last week. Kelli did the finishing touches to the paint job, whilst I worked on making a floor and inside back panel for a hutch that we got from the organ man.
I removed the drawers runners, because one of the drawers had been destroyed I decided to make doors instead. I have already made the frames and cut the metal mesh to fit inside.
The general paint finish of the hutch was crap, so in between helping Kelli with painting the doors I started sanding back the rough paint.
During the afternoon the couple that we painted chairs for returned to bring back two that had got scratched. It is alway a risk that it can happen with painted pieces, but in general they still looked good. Usually it’s the legs that get beaten up, but there was barely a mark on them.
Later Kelli went off on her own to Plato’s closet with more stuff to sell whilst I started thinking about a repair to a guitar that her brother Matt had thrown into the dustbin ages ago.
I rescued it and set it aside as a side job.
The guitar had fallen and snapped the headstock right where it had joined the neck. He attempted to repair it with Gorilla glue, but was not confident that it would hold up to having strings fully tensioned.
I have watched a number of videos on this type of repair, so I thought I would have a go myself, what possibly go wrong?
Another Lifetime to go 