Last year my daughter moved to Phoenix and we purchased a used table
and chair set. When the dealer delivered the table, he used a stain?
oil? finish on minor dings on the chair legs and covered the dings by
blending them in with the good finish.It blended together very welll.
Last week I was moving my father-in-laws hope chest and set the chest
on it's side. We tipped it over and broke one of the legs. The chest
is about 60 or 70 years old.
I used Gorilla glue and got it glued back together again. I trimmed
and sanded the glue off of the leg and now need to refinish the leg.
I would like your ideas on what to use to refinish the leg so the glue
joints are a reasonable match with the rest of the leg. I was hoping
you might have an idea of what the furniture dealer used to cover up
the dings on the chairs.
Thanks
On Apr 7, 9:28 pm, "Edwin Pawlowski" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "goodfella" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > I used Gorilla glue and got it glued back together again. I trimmed
> > and sanded the glue off of the leg and now need to refinish the leg.
> > I would like your ideas on what to use to refinish the leg so the glue
> > joints are a reasonable match with the rest of the leg. I was hoping
> > you might have an idea of what the furniture dealer used to cover up
> > the dings on the chairs.
>
> No clue what the dealer used, but I've had good luck just using an oil stain
> close in color. From a few feet away, small dings are invisible.
I found out it was Howards Oil. I went ahead and used stain I found
at Menards for a quarter a packet. 4 were just enough to cover it.
Thanks for the input
"goodfella" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> I used Gorilla glue and got it glued back together again. I trimmed
> and sanded the glue off of the leg and now need to refinish the leg.
> I would like your ideas on what to use to refinish the leg so the glue
> joints are a reasonable match with the rest of the leg. I was hoping
> you might have an idea of what the furniture dealer used to cover up
> the dings on the chairs.
No clue what the dealer used, but I've had good luck just using an oil stain
close in color. From a few feet away, small dings are invisible.
"goodfella" <[email protected]> wrote
> I would like your ideas on what to use to refinish the leg so the glue
> joints are a reasonable match with the rest of the leg. I was hoping
> you might have an idea of what the furniture dealer used to cover up
> the dings on the chairs.
>
Why don't you give him a call and ask him. You can always say that you
dinged up the chairs and need to do some more repairs.