bureau refurbishment

[Mr Ed]

I've brought a few bits of veneered furniture back to life in the past, by using a palm sander and then refinishing. Providing you're careful it works OK.

Personally I don't think the bureau looks that bad - I'm sure once the finish is off it'll be lighter in colour and if you refinish in clear it will look OK, new handles etc and you'll have something that will do a few more years service if nothing else.

Ed

 

[Benchwayze]

Leave the warped door out in the rain for few days. The veneer might well come off. (I got some nice Birds eye maple that way.)
Then make a new door in MDF, veneer it and edge it with veneer tape.
It will make a nice piece if that's what they want. So have a go. At least you will have tried.

My SWIMBO of course, would offer to buy the materials for a new bureau and ask said relative to be patient for a real nice job. But then I have begun to dream a lot these days! I put it down to the blood pressure meds.


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Best of luck Moose,

John

 

[big soft moose]

this piece has now come to a resolution....

once i got the laquer off i discoved that virtually ever panel had chipped veneer - at this point i added up the cost of re veneering it and it came in higher than rebuilding the dam thing

so bottom line phil and lou will have to wait for their bureau and this pile of cack is going to the tip in the morning.

 

[RogerM]

..............so bottom line phil and lou will have to wait for their bureau and this pile of cack is going to the tip in the morning.

Good decision BSM. You know it makes sense.

 

[woodbloke]

this piece has now come to a resolution....

once i got the laquer off i discoved that virtually ever panel had chipped veneer - at this point i added up the cost of re veneering it and it came in higher than rebuilding the dam thing

so bottom line phil and lou will have to wait for their bureau and this pile of cack is going to the tip in the morning.

Me and Tom told ya :lol: :lol: - Rob

 

[OPJ]

Bad luck, Pete. What a bugger.

When the say the veneer is chipped, is it only at the edges?

Assuming you could get everything apart without destroying it (!), could you trim the edges back and glue on, say, a 6mm strip of timber to compensate?

 

[MikeG.]

Me and Tom told ya :lol: :lol: - Rob

So did I! And don't listen to Olly...........get it to the tip. Save the drawers, though, they're always useful......and if there are any panels of ply (like the back panel, for instance), grab them too.

Mike

 

[big soft moose]

Me and Tom told ya :lol: :lol: - Rob

So did I! And don't listen to Olly...........get it to the tip. Save the drawers, though, they're always useful......and if there are any panels of ply (like the back panel, for instance), grab them too.

Mike

change of plan

after i posted yesterday I sat and though am i a moose or a mouse - no dammit i'm a moose - and i did what any self respecting moose would do.

After i'd finished bellowing randomly at strangers and unjammed my antlers from the workshop door :lol: I said ( in a suitably bass profundo moose like way ) "I'm not going to let that piece of ***** bureau beat me" and formulated a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel

part one went into effect to night when i took a a belt sander and a 40 grit belt to the bloody thing and sanded all the laquer (and much of the veneer) off.

part two goes into action tommorow with a trip to yandles (always a good way to start a plan i feel)

my lap tops dead at the minuite and i'm using swimbo's which doesnt have a XD card reader so WIPs will have to wait - but i'm documenting it all with pics as i go so once i get the card reading sorted you'll be able to marvel at my cunning (or laugh at my folly)

 

[wizer]

 

[Tom K]

Me and Tom told ya :lol: :lol: - Rob

So did I! And don't listen to Olly...........get it to the tip. Save the drawers, though, they're always useful......and if there are any panels of ply (like the back panel, for instance), grab them too.

Mike

change of plan

after i posted yesterday I sat and though am i a moose or a mouse - no dammit i'm a moose - and i did what any self respecting moose would do.

After i'd finished bellowing randomly at strangers and unjammed my antlers from the workshop door :lol: I said ( in a suitably bass profundo moose like way ) "I'm not going to let that piece of ***** bureau beat me" and formulated a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel

part one went into effect to night when i took a a belt sander and a 40 grit belt to the bloody thing and sanded all the laquer (and much of the veneer) off.

part two goes into action tommorow with a trip to yandles (always a good way to start a plan i feel)

my lap tops dead at the minuite and i'm using swimbo's which doesnt have a XD card reader so WIPs will have to wait - but i'm documenting it all with pics as i go so once i get the card reading sorted you'll be able to marvel at my cunning (or laugh at my folly)

Do Yandles sell wood effect fablon then?

 

[Smudger]

 

[MikeG.]

Do Yandles sell wood effect fablon then?

They probably sell hatchets and matches, though.......

Mike

 

[big soft moose]

They probably sell hatchets and matches, though.......

Mike

they probably do ... but the product i went for is wood - lots of wood.

for £14 i got 40 pieces of offcut oak (thats 35p per circa A4 sized piece) - which are about to be sliced up on the bandsaw and then used to clad the bureau, essentially like a thick veneer - I am also removing the crap inside of the top bit and refitting that with drawers - built in ply but lipped and fronted with oak, making a new front panel flap in oak , and removing the cupboard doors and fitting more drawers in that space - I may also build in a couple of secret compartments a la kevin ley.

I'm actually quite excited about the project now - especially as swimbo has moved the deadline back to xmas so ive got time to do a propper job.

by the by while i was at yandles a board of yew, a board of olive ash, and two 4" x1 " x 6ft sections of ABW seem to have "accidentally" fallen into the car :lol: - so thats half the xmas presents sorted then - jewelry boxes allround for the ladeez

 

[MikeG.]

My dad once told me the story of how he bought a dinghy when he was young, and then set about refurbishing it.

He replaced most of the rotten planking, but in the process realised that some of the ribs weren't in great nick. He took them out individually to use as a pattern for the replacements, and made a complete set. In getting the ribs out he damaged the gunnels, so using the old ones as patterns he replaced them. At that stage the only bit of original boat was the keel, so, in for a penny etc he ripped that off and replaced it............in the process building himself a complete new boat for about 3 times the hassle as if he had started from scratch!

Mike