• useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
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    29 days ago

    Gorgeous. The steel come up real nice or (wrought iron?)

    have you attempted sanding back the decorative areas on the drawers? I feel like slightly sanding back just the face of the scroll design and then re-staining could really make it more pronounced. If that makes sense.

    Thing must weigh a ton.

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      29 days ago

      I cleaned it a lot and did clean the scrolls extra , but I didn’t sand it much at all, it’s so full of deep scratches, holes and lost varnish it would have gone through the veneer.

      It was also a trade off between restoring to original, which is not possible anyway, and taking 100 hours, or fixing it up to last a couple more decades, which took 20 hours.

      It’s cast iron and weighs a bloody ton. There’s also the machine inside which probably weighs another 15 kilos.

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          28 days ago

          those are ikea wood tiles and yes I fix them up every early summer, clean them and replace any broken ones

          if not for the tiles that terrace would be unbearably hot in summer