{"id":177,"date":"2011-09-29T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ridiculousredhead.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2014-09-03T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T02:38:37","slug":"177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ridiculousredhead.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"The Never Ending Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I soon come to realize is that this chair has become my albatross, my Everest, my reason for that glass of wine at 10 AM.\u00a0\u00a0 The paint came off pretty easily, but the finish underneath that is a different story.\u00a0 I don’t use shellac or lacquer etc. so I am not so versed in the differences between them.\u00a0 All I know is this is the most loyal clear finish I have ever encountered.\u00a0 It just wouldn’t leave this chair!\u00a0 Oh and what I neglected to notice at the start was those beautiful lines meant there wasn’t one flat surface on the entire chair.\u00a0 60 grit sandpaper on a palm sander would have ruined everything.<\/p>\n

So I sanded. By hand.\u00a0 Multiple grits.\u00a0 For days.\u00a0 Did I mention that it’s oak?\u00a0 You could sand the same spot for an hour and have nothing to show for it.<\/p>\n

He also wanted it stained.\u00a0 The more I realize I’m not getting the finish off the more I realize that putting stain on will make an unholy mess.\u00a0 And, to fix it, \u00a0I would have to sand\u00a0it back off.\u00a0 Since I was running out of wine to numb my arm muscles I rebeled and said he was getting no stain and just poly.\u00a0 His only choice was satin or gloss.<\/p>\n

Luckily he went along with it. I used Safecoat\u00a0Poly Seal in gloss.\u00a0 Here is the Sort of Before.\u00a0 I forgot to take a pic before I stripped the paint off the seat.\u00a0 Notice the paints on the top and bottom sections are two different colors.<\/p>\n

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Before (Sort of)<\/p><\/div>\n

You will also notice that the arms have lovely detail.\u00a0 I have a set of dental tools that make this much easier\u00a0to deal with.\u00a0 You can find them for not more than $15 or so on Amazon.<\/p>\n

And here is the long, long awaited After.\u00a0 I really never thought I would see it.<\/p>\n

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While cleaning the metal spring mechanism\u00a0underneath I found\u00a0it was stamped with “Patented December 1918”.\u00a0 I gave it a light coat of wax from Kerf’s\u00a0for a bit of shine without ruining the cool patina.<\/p>\n

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You can’t buy anything like that now and I am glad it came out the way it did.\u00a0\u00a0 He may have stopped talking to me if I had ruined it except for the fact that I am on the potential babysitter list!<\/p>\n

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What I soon come to realize is that this chair has become my albatross, my Everest, my reason for that glass of wine at 10 AM.\u00a0\u00a0 The paint came off pretty easily, but the finish underneath that is a different…
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