Furniture stripper
We’ve all stripped old furniture finish. But sometimes “furniture stripper” means something else entirely.
We’ve all stripped old furniture finish. But sometimes “furniture stripper” means something else entirely.
The last thing to do for the glass studio I made for Sally was finish the cabinetry. I wanted the oak color au naturel, but with a few coats of polyurethane. The bookshelves, drawers and cabinets each got full coats in one pass, but the single door had to be done in two passes – one for each side, with a bit of wait between them. This meant that by the time everything else got a couple coats, I was behind one coat on one side of the door.
Everything was dry, but before calling it a day that door still needed a final coat before I reassembled the cabinets in the morning. I was tired and had good clothes on, but didn’t want to change into shop clothes for this quick task. Nobody was home, though, so I figured what the heck and just threw my shirt and jeans in a pile on the floor, and proceeded to brush a final coat on the door.
Adds a whole knew meaning to “au naturel,” doesn’t it?
A.J. Hamler is the former editor of Woodshop News and Woodcraft Magazine. He's currently a freelance woodworking writer/editor, which is another way of stating self-employed. When he's not writing or in the shop, he enjoys science fiction, gourmet cooking and Civil War reenacting, but not at the same time.