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  1. 5th December 2009, 05:45 PM #1
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    Default Not an antique but worth doing.

    I bought this coffee table from the tender center for au$13.00
    The dowels in the legs had almost all been snapped and I had to biscuit joint them to get it solid again.
    I also didn't like the "teak" finish and decided it would look better with a mahogany shellac finish.

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  3. 5th December 2009, 06:23 PM #2
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    thats a transformation for surewell done.
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  4. 5th December 2009, 06:27 PM #3
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    Nice job. Why, oh why, did they use dowels that were obviously never going to be strong enough? Seems to have been a habit.
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  5. 5th December 2009, 08:15 PM #4
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    Thanks for the comments Bluegum and Alex,

    I have inherited a cedar "tall boy", which belonged to my uncle, who came back from Nam shell shocked, and he painted it battleship grey.
    I have been buying inexpensive items to do up so when I tackle a real antique I don't stuff up.
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  6. 9th December 2009, 08:59 AM #5
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    Great restoration!! The new colour really suits the style of the table.
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  7. 10th December 2009, 06:25 AM #6
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    Thanks Artme,

    The colour was my wife's choice, although it's probably what I would have gone with anyway, It still amazes me what a little stain & polish can do for something that may have ended up as landfill.
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  8. 10th December 2009, 06:59 AM #7
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    Well done on the reno.
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