Antique Furniture Restoration In Morris County NJ

Morris County NJ Antique Furniture Restoration

Sponsored By Carlos Antique Furniture Restoration 201-230-1956 Dover NJ

Carlos is from Veracruz Mexico and has an unbelievable talent to restore old furniture, from tables to ladders to hoister cabinets, fixing up a roughed or mistreated furniture piece is extremely rewarding but if you never tried your hand at any kind of antique furniture restoration project, you may want to start smaller and simpler according to Carlos, for example one easy beginning restoration project, a wooden table, perfect for novice restorers a wooden table can give you a good practice sanding and finishing, Carlos says a wooden table can give you a good practice sanding and finishing plus you can pick up a basic wooden table, at any flee market or thrift shop.

Supplies You Need

All purpose cleaning spray

cloth or paper towels

Coarse sandpaper (grits 60, 120 and 360)

block sander or mechanical sander

tack cloth

stain or primer or paint

How to restore a wooden table step by step

Analyze your table and be honest with your skill level : Give the table a good look over, does it have hand carved details, and scrollwork that may be tedious? for a first time restorer, its wise to start working with a wood table with less ornamentation. All those tight corners and crevices can be tricky if you are just learning so it’s important to be honest with yourself and skill level.

In the same vein, you want to choose a wooden table made of solid wood. Avoid working with something made of veneer overlay which is thinner and more fragile to work with sanding-wise. Biut how can you tell is veener? since veneer sheets are rotary sliced from a log, it creates a pattern that repeats across the width of the grain.

Give the Wooden Table a touch up cleaning

Carlos continues..prepping the surface is one step many first time restorers tend to miss, however, while it takes some elbow grease to thoroughly clean out the dirt, grease, oil, etc. It is worth the effort. Otherwise you simply sanding all that gunk ad mess, straight into your new soon to be stained surface. For this step you need a basic all purpose cleaner and paper towels and rags.

Start the stripping process

Take your rouguest sandpaper grit and begin sanding working with the grain. This stripping process removes all the old paint and vanish, allowing you to start fresh, if you are one who appreciates quite solitude in the workshop, by all means sand by hand. However a mechanical sander will go much faster, once you’ve stripped the wooden table from tabletop to legs, wipe it down with a tack cloth to remove any remaining dust.

Thought you were done sanding ? sorry but not. You’ll need to repeat the same process, only using this time using finer 120 grit sandpaper.

In the next step you apply a finish, whether you choose a stain or primer and paint is up to you.

A PROTECTIVE COAT

One final step you can take is to add a clean coat with all your effort a clear cut can provide a level of protection over stains and paints. However if you choose to use oil to present the wood natural beauty, a clear coat is not needed apply 2 coats of either polyurethane or polycrylic, sanding between each with the fine-grit 360 sandpaper.

Now you know exactly how to restore a wooden table! thank Carlos for it and give him a call when ready!