08/10/2025
Here's another fun personal chair project.
My 10 year old daughter saw this chair at the thrift store and said, "dad, you should refinish that."
I told her I had enough work to do and left it.
Then I spent all night thinking about and went back and bought it the next day.
I stripped multiple layers of paint before getting to the original finish. Then gave it a good washing with lacquer thinner.
Sanded to 120 since it is nice quarter sawn oak and I don't like to go finer than that for nice oak.
I wipe it with some mineral spirits to see what a natural finish would look like. It has a very uniform pale yellow color that I didn't really like.
So, I wiped it with a very thinned down black Woodsong wiping stain to get some contrast in the grain.
Sealed, scuffed and top coated with 3 coats of pre- catalyzed lacquer.
Turns out to be a very nice jurist/ library chair.
Oh yeah, it was the half price color tag at the thrift store so it cost me $1.93 plus tax.
