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Big Reds sister is completed.
Cherry has nice legs and a brighter glow than her stately brother.
Big Red was waxed and polished from head to toe,
were as Cherry was finished with wipe on poly.
She needed little repairs all over, but we all know
with age comes experience.
Miss Cherry has not traveled too far from home in all her years!
Here is a fresh raw coat of Emperors Silk Chalk Paint on her body.
and the finished coat that topped her off.
Both her doors got magnetic closures.
Her jewelry was pretty but to hang in the pub with all those rough and tumbles
she needed something new to help fit in better.
Shell be catching the eye of many and maybe even a whistle or two.
Cherry will go home to her decorators home for a short stay then she will be off
to her new digs in the Fort Pub.
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It all started one dark and dreary night a few weeks back.
Okay it wasnt dreary I just liked how that sounded.
This big buffet came up for auction and someone got it.
I wasnt bidding on it and cant remember the price it went for.
Come to find out a friend of ours had tried to bid on it but couldnt go as high as the winning bid.
I was disappointed for her but several days later when we picked up our
auction purchases, the big buffet was still unclaimed.
I let our friend know right away and she returned the following week
to rebid on the piece and win for a much better price.
Now somewhere in all this, the big buffet came to me to spray.
All I was going to do was spend a few hours in the warm sun giving the big beast
a few coats of old white chalk paint. Leigh would do the rest of the work.
Sounds simple huh?
Out of more than a dozen ASCP pieces I have done to date
I have never encountered anything like this or even heard of this happening.
I also just read about a lady painting her fridge in ASCP cream color and it adhered great.
SO what on earth happened here?
The paint started to flake as it dried.
In one small spot and spread like a diseased wildebeest on the Savannah.
Paint was falling to the ground on its own.
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I didnt have time to play around.
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No more fooling around ... I sanded the entire upper cabinet with 80 grit,
It worked!!
Happy Dance?
So I hand sanded the lower cabinet too.
I believe an oil was used on this cabinet, an oil that sits on the surface.
There was no way to know ahead of time as you didnt see or feel anything.
Its like a lottery I suppose, every now and then you will come across
a piece of furniture that has a mysterious product on it that just wont allow chalk paint to adhere.
Doing test patches with your paint will save you time if you think there could be an issue.
Clean your project with something that will cut oil,
I.E. TSP, SOAP AND WATER, HOUSEHOLD SPRAY DEGREASER
Note: nothing was harmed in the making of this project although I did want to throw things.
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The veneer was cracked, lifting, and missing on the
top surface of this old buffet when we got it.
It was also in its original brown stained finish.
*Sorry no before pictures*
The mirror was purchased at a local antique store,
and was the perfect size to match up with the buffet.
It was gold and the elaborate decorations were
chipped and broken.
*Sorry no before photos*
I had removed all the veneer on the top of the buffet
a year earlier but the gouges and missing wood was
just not going to match with the sleek black look I
was now wanting.
The day I was working on the top I had gotten
interrupted by the cable man come to rewire some
connections, and really that was the main cause for
the end result of what you see in these photos.
It was one of those trial and error projects.
In a moment of surprise this faux seal skin look magically
appeared on the top. Some have compared it to marble.
Im going to explain how the top was finished in point form in the hopes it is easier to follow:
I filled the gouges with white wood filler
then painted it black
next spray painted with metallic silver
then belt sanded the whole surface
6 layers of clear coat
I had started spraying the metallic silver on the top
over the black thinking if I dont like it the acetone
is right handy to wipe it off. I had forgotten about
the cable man coming and when he arrived in the
middle of this process I had to walk away without
seeing what it looked like. Well once he was done
the paint was also now dryish. I hated it! It looked
tacky! In my anger I grabbed the belt sander with a
35 grit belt (very coarse) and started trying to
remove everything. This is when this beautiful
finish started to come thru.
You can find more piece finished in black here.
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