In any case, Brad and I were helping our friend Helen (who beat P Diddy in the New York marathon, btw) move when we came across an old table in her basement. Turns out, she'd gotten the table from our mutual friend Amanda (who, as we speak is traipsing across Brazil- that's right, my friends are filled with all kinds of fabulosity) when Amanda was purging for her cross-country drive to California.It had seen better days and Helen was going to leave it in the basement, and being the sucker for a project that I am, well...
It used to be covered in a dark varnish and had 2 drop leaves supported by gatelegs. I removed the leaves and gatelegs (you can see holes where they used to be attached), used SoyGel stripper to remove the varnish, sanded it down with my new best friend, added 2 coats of Timber-Soy wood stain in mahogany, and finished it all off with Poly-Soy, a soy based polyturethane. It was a lot of elbow grease for a little table, but it was also pretty fun.
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Wow! That's all I've got to say.
Can you do my desk/dining table?
I can try, but I gotta say, it's much easier to stain and get a nice finish on old mahogany than it is with Ikea pine... Granted, our nightstands are new, and your tables have been around a while, so they might take stain a little better, but they might need wood conditioner... not sure if I've seen any green versions of these --- I'll check.
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