Another hard rubbish pickup, I couldn't pass this one by. Full solid timber on all sides, all drawers, including the drawer floors. The drawer runners were absolutely SMASHED to pieces. This was a massive rebuild job, and an extra ordinary amount of sanding required. This dresser had seen a lot of abuse. It's incredible how well solid timber comes up after being stripped back though. Wish I'd taken better rebuild photos, I forgot to take shots at a number of steps.
Garrick helped me pull out HUNDREDS of brad-nails. (small nail gun nails) The dudes at the factory must've been bananas.
The original build was garbage. I pulled the entire front face, and all the drawer runners out. This staple-construction is just so bad. So wrong. Makes me cry.
Not really shown here, but I've rebuilt and reinforced the entire front. I've rebuilt all the drawer runners which are sitting on the top. The sides and top are pretty beat up. The existing stain on it is what I call "mud finish" which is a single coat spray-stain-varnish. Looks terribad. The difference between that, and what I'm about to do to it with separate processes and the same colors is night and day.
Top done, walnut stain, x2 coats of varnish. Sorry didn't get any shots of it completely stripped back. Took an enormous amount of sanding to get the mud-finish off. Looks sooooooo good when it's plain white pine. I'm never entirely sure I should use stain at all.
Looks great. I installed small 50mm castors on the base so I can move it around. I actually didn't do any work on the drawers, so they're a slight color/gloss mismatch, and I will need to reglue them over time. Amasing condition considering how bad the main dresser was.
An old table refurb in the background. That was mud-finished originally also. Decided to oil and wax that one after stripping it down though. The chairs (and stools!!) are rubbish collected as well. :D
