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Restoring an old writing slope
Hello fellow woodworkers,
It's been some time since i last had the luxury of spending some time in the garage so to get back into the swing of things I decided to restore an old writing slope I picked up a few months ago at the local market. My workbench was a bit of a mess though so I gave it a clean, a few fresh coats of BLO finished off with some wax. Its been a few years since I made it so its slowly starting to show some character.
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This writing slope is fully veneered and the structure are failing in places resulting in the veneer cracking all over, especially around the bends on the lid. After playing with some ideas I decided I need some veneering practise so decided to remove all of the existing veneer and damaged inlay banding. I will replace it with new ones.
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Here's the box after I stripped off all the old veneer for those who wants to see how it was done in the early days. Pretty rough joinery in my view :U.
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