What's under all this paint?

this video is brought to you by Squarespace it's your One-Stop shop to business and looking amazing on the web [Music] okay hello this is trena at John's furniture repair and we're in the shop today with this beautiful chair that maybe could be a little bit more beautiful so let me show you some details on this one okay so obviously we've got a very painted chair but I don't think there's too many layers just from a couple of the we through areas um a seat that's also been painted so that's interesting they said okay we'll just make it all one color so we'll be putting on a new seat with new tax got some repairs here arms usually get loose so someone's added a bolt over the years and we are also missing an entire uh brace on the bottom brace there got some cracks in the seat we've got a yucky finish and all of these things are not really that big of a problem so let's get it on the workbench and get it all apart okay so I'm just going to use a hacksaw blade uh when things have been painted or just old and full of grime usually for a slotted screw sometimes it's hard to seat your screwdriver and we'll just clean out those screws and then we can seat our screwdriver nicely in there okay so I don't think that this is the original way to attach this arm but I won't really be able to tell what it's supposed to be looks like it's just spinning in the hole it might have broken off and this screw is very crooked as well usually see the screws exposed like that on the wood other than up on the armrest but we'll have to see you never know [Music] [Music] okay so I found a spare chair part in our box of spare chair parts and uh we're just I think this angle is not going to be too bad I'm going to have to I want to um make like they do when they make these pieces make the dowel out of the same piece uh but I don't have a 9/16 plug cutter and it would be pretty hard getting that angle set up on on the drill press so I'm going to actually just hand carve it down to the shoulder here uh and match the angle for the chair back that way so um we'll just be kind of fitting it back and forth and like slightly adjusting it until it's really good so this side I'm just going to um leave a shoulder here so I can cut that back cuz these are bigger dowels longer is what I mean and so we need to cut that back as well and change the angle slightly on this end as well so I'll just kind of retrofit this old piece into this new chair [Laughter] so now we're just going to take it back to the chair and we're going to get some more detailed measurements okay so we got it fit in there it is still a bit long so it's pushing that leg out if you look behind there you can see that one sticking out more but I think if we fix that angle right there and tweak that one over so slightly right there we might be pretty close to getting it lined up so I'm just going to Mark basically you know scribing with my pencil with the with the leg I'm just going to come right down here like this think we've done as good a job as we're going to do here it's fitting pretty well I think it's actually fitting better than the original one it's kind of Gap pacious right there but it might just be twisted anyways uh so we'll get this all back apart and get into stripping I think I'll take the seat apart first so we can get that going for upholstery hey do you guys know why I started making content online it was to share all the amazing projects with more than just myself and the customer which was good but I felt like more people needed to see these things we do some pretty amazing things in the shop and I really appreciate a platform to be able to share them with you Squarespace is the perfect platform to be seen with just a few clicks and you're off choose from over 1,000 beautifully created templates available on desktop and on your little mobile device Squarespace seamless integration makes you look like a pro when it counts just add your own personalized content such as 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cuz I think they do have a finish but on this one I'm going to scrape cuz this is raw wood here and usually the seats are pretty worn out so for areas like this where it's really quite beat up we've got a lot of divots on the front of the seat here you're just going to have to use a stripper for that so I'll get most of this paint off with a scraper but we'll still be going over with the stripper afterwards it looks like we've got a tiger print on a maple or Birch chair so that's interesting huh to see how this all looks when we get this allart oh yeah I can see it right here look it there's that tiger print H okay we're not going to have an oak chair here I'm going to get the sander going here I'm just going to sand off all the rest of this area but before I do that I need to glue down this broken section cuz I don't want to sand that off here so I need to probably get a blade in there and get out any crud that's kind of landed in there over the years and try to smush that back down a little better so it actually looks to me like there's a broken off screw in there which is why it's not coming back down so this might look a little barbaric but I'm just going to have to snap this whole side open because that guy in there is he actually there's two of them in there yeah so no wonder that's not coming back down so I'm just going to try to get a I keep pretty old screwdrivers for these reasons just to try to pop it out there that goes that [Music] one there I got it lift [Music] out and I'll just turn this giant screw out of here with my these are also my grubby ones they're not for good [Music] stuff yeah so pretty gnarly so I'll just have to glue this chunk of wood back down now I can get all this other paint off of the inside here too with the scraper that way we won't have any trouble with the glue down [Music] [Laughter] going drive those fibers back together and then P it everything back in [Music] there we go we'll let that sit overnight so um I just wanted to also mention that the screw holes on this entire seat are pretty pretty rough for the this is where the arm attaches in to the seat so I'm just going to be filling these and drilling fresh on so I'm just going to put some glue in there yeah I did and then I'm driving in a couple of these [Music] wooden Square p come [Music] [Music] [Music] I [Music] [Music] okay so I've got a couple of pieces left to strip here and I'm just going of going through um repairs as I strip pieces this is where the arms attached um and I found four really Hefty broken off screws in here I threw them all in here you can see a couple of them down there and so um they just kept putting more screws in it broke put another screw so I'm going to be filling these with um plugs so I've just drilled it out with a forer bit and replacing the wood there with a a plug and I just wanted to mention make sure you don't do a endg grain dowel like this it works but it's not the best for a point where you need to have uh something hanging on to something you want to do a plug out of a solid piece with your top grain showing not your end grain cuz it just um has opposing wood fibers to hang onto your screw so that's your best repair if you have something that you need to screw into um so yeah I'm just going to cut a couple of those plugs the seat we've got all ready for stripping here all the repairs came out good and uh most of the the uh pieces are looking pretty good uh not too bad for repairs this is kind of what um I started with on the other one you can see ends of broken screws in here that were just left and more screws put in so I guess that is how they attached it um if we look at an arm show you the one that I've stripped here it looks like um the end here is where probably a pan head screw would have sat and that just screwed right into that back post so we'll just redo it this the way they had it um just a little bit more of a primitive way of of attaching things so I'm just going to continue on stripping those last pieces and repairing and I believe we've got Elm under this print and I'm not going to be restoring the print on this piece it's just too far gone on a lot of pieces but um I believe they've printed it on Elm so I was looking at one of the side rails here and if you look underneath the print that's showing that's definitely an Elm green so we'll see if all these pieces are Elm or if it's just which is a very interesting choice in my opinion because elm's got a pretty loud grain in the first place and to put another printed grain over top of that um like this is a piece of elm here that I'm cutting some of the plugs out of um that just seems like a weird Choice like it's not a very clean wood to do a printed piece with anyways I'll continue on getting all this paint off of here and uh thankfully it's coming off pretty good and we'll be on to sanding [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so I've got it all glued up and in clamps so we'll leave that for a few hours before we get um the clamps off and do some staining the arms I'm just going to leave off because they attach to the seat so we won't put those on yet quite yet cuz I'm going to get the seat ready off to the upholster so yeah looks pretty good um it's always hard to keep glue off your pieces when you're uh gluing them up but I prefer to do it this way just I've always done it with the chair all together works for me cuz I can see how things are looking together so yeah we'll leave this for a couple of hours and then um take the clamps off do a last prep standand and throw some stain on all the stuff [Music] so if you ever run into this we do all the time here not a big deal this is an area right here that we're looking at where the stain's not penetrating and that is because there's some glue that I didn't get off that must have ran down when we glued so all you do is just take a I usually do a 120 sandpaper and just go ahead even after you stain no big deal and just get back down to the raw wood there and then come again with your stain and you're all good [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all righty so it's the next day I put two coats of lacquer on it last night and I think the color is looking really even uh but we definitely have different woods and I'm not going to do much about that we've got Elm sticking out here front and center as well as front center up there we've got our Maple arms Maple front legs maple rungs and then I added my own Oak rung here and then we've either got aler or popper um back slots here so that's okay we're just going to say you know what this is what this chair is we've got a cohesive color across the whole thing so I am going to add some tinting I'm going to use um Mohawk um brown cherry which is kind of a if I can find it here it's kind of like a reddish brown a little bit darker and then I might follow that up if I don't want to go so red with some good old standard raw umber so I'm just going to go through the chair and kind of even it out a little bit more and then uh before that give it a a 320 sand and uh see how it looks after that we might try to just quieten up you know a little bit of the very loud stuff that's going on just to kind of say hey everybody work together uh but yeah it's looking really good I like it there's uh nothing wrong with a bunch of different tones of wood who says you have to use the same wood to build one piece right so yeah get that titin rolling [Music] [Music] and there it is all finished up looking way more sophisticated than when it arrived all those different beautiful Woods are just kind of playing together very nicely and my mom's got her nice upholstered leather seat on here with a beautiful graen I think it all turned out really nice so we got our Elm piece here and we've got a maple arm an Elm back an oak stick all kinds of stuff going on so thanks so much for joining me on this one guys I hope you enjoyed it 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Channel: John's Furniture Repair

Views: 48,062

Keywords: trena, john's furniture repair, thomas johnson, antique restoration, furniture, shop, workshop, tools, stripping, spraying, sanding, woodworking, mohawk, walnut stain, table, festool, tiktok, at restoration, dewalt, bleach, this old house, beard meets food, kardashians

Id: 43TYK0-uuio

Length: 32min 46sec (1966 seconds)

Published: Sun May 12 2024