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I got this off a guy on Craigslist for $75 a few months back. It was a present for my girlfriend. All of the glue in the leg joints had dried out and the legs were wobbly, and the entire thing was painted with thick, black paint - even the glass balls on the claw feet.
The paint was all stripped. The top was stained with Golden Oak and finished in General Finishes Arm-R-Seal. The bottom was stained in Ebony and finished with three coats of wipe-on polyurethane. The leg joints were all reglued. For one that I could not get apart, I had to drill a hole through one of the tenons from the bottom so I could inject glue through that hole and into the joint. The hole was drilled in a part of the tenon that was hidden inside the mortise of the leg, so there was no need to patch the hole afterwards. Sorry, there is a picture limit or I would have included images of that process as well!
Hope you enjoy, and thanks for looking. The last image is what the stool originally looked like.
The paint was all stripped. The top was stained with Golden Oak and finished in General Finishes Arm-R-Seal. The bottom was stained in Ebony and finished with three coats of wipe-on polyurethane. The leg joints were all reglued. For one that I could not get apart, I had to drill a hole through one of the tenons from the bottom so I could inject glue through that hole and into the joint. The hole was drilled in a part of the tenon that was hidden inside the mortise of the leg, so there was no need to patch the hole afterwards. Sorry, there is a picture limit or I would have included images of that process as well!
Hope you enjoy, and thanks for looking. The last image is what the stool originally looked like.
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