General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...Part 25...! :-D, 1 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
Molly I think I outsmarted myself! I started stripping, and it is a beast of a job, although I will finish in due time. I use the old George Grotz' fabulous wood alcohol/mineral spirits combo which is so easy to use, finish just washes right off and it doesn't raise the grain on the wood at all. But, out of curiousity, I went on Ebay and found a perfect little table, and it was under $25 including shipping,so I bought it! Now the old one will go in the guest bedroom, and the new one next to the hutch! LOL

I'm going to go look and see if I saved the photo of the hutch .....nope, didn't, but here's another shot. If you go to Ebay, the item # is 4399513208. In fact the seller has a number of these. The legs are a better match, too. I think I will replace the drawer pulls, to make them all alike.

I've done a lot of stripping and refinishing. I'm still using my old maple dressers. I bought an entire maple bedroom set in the eighties, for $75. Brought them home, stripped them with George's recipe, in the back yard on a couple of hot days with temps in the 90s. They are solid, roomy, and apparently indestructible. This end table was one of the pieces. I had used tung oil for the finish, which I liked very much.

Time to go turn it over and start on the inside of the legs.