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    Let the gardener work for his keep...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    it is genuine, smuggled Cambodian mahogany for sure.
    Good news, i love some of the old hardwood tables you see in some of the old family restos primarily Chinese families, they are untreated and just have a natural patina derived from years of use, the odd stain adds to the character.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strigils View Post
    Good news, i love some of the old hardwood tables you see in some of the old family restos primarily Chinese families, they are untreated and just have a natural patina derived from years of use, the odd stain adds to the character.
    i was thinking a light coating of homosexual grey...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post

    I guess it will be paint stripper followed by sanding



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    I agree. The chairs would destroy your will to live. Maybe find a Myanmar type, or some other type used to working, and set hem to work with stripper, scraper, wire wool, hot water, goggles, thick protective gloves etc. - then clean, dry sand, sand, sand.


    you will destroy the natural wood patina and need a stain afterwards (in my experience).

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    Shabby Chic furniture -  another lockdown project-screenshot_20210211-163201_chrome-jpg

    Table Quarterly?

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    ^ No, I gave up my subscription to 'Table Quarterly'.

    'Table Quoits' of course. This probably raises more questions, and I have no idea how to pronounce it.




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    Coits or Coyts

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Quoits ... I have no idea how to pronounce it.
    kwoyts



    Edit: When I was a lad, it was always pronounced 'kwoyts', but after I read the post above by strigils, I checked my dictionary and it says it is pronounced 'koyts' / 'koits', the same as strigils posted.
    Last edited by Neverna; 11-02-2021 at 11:46 PM.

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    That's a nice looking living room Mendip. I don't know whether those windows are real stained glass or otherwise but they look classy.

    I like my furniture to be nice clear wood with, if anything, a very light clear stain. Nice ponderosa pine is good for me. I have a friend who manages to get his wood supply by recycling old wood from very old farmhouses, etc. I pay him to custom build me some of my furniture .

    Good luck with the projects.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Quoits. I have no idea how to pronounce it.
    The same way as dillinger says 'quite' + s

    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    I don't know whether those windows are real stained glass or otherwise


    Still a complete nutter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    I pay him to custom build me some of my furniture .
    sure you do, TEFLr, just a regular ole collector of antiques and fine period pieces, ain’t you?

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    The Table Quoits set of some discussion... When lockdowns allow my mum has taken to shopping in charity shops which now seem to be everywhere in the UK. She's forever telling me that she found 'such and such' for only 25p, etc etc, and unfortunately a lot of it gets sent out to Thailand for my daughter.

    Along with the quoits came these two resin elephants, one with it's head stove in. That was my first lockdown restoration project yesterday and the invisible repair took me two bladdy hours.




    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    That's a nice looking living room Mendip. I don't know whether those windows are real stained glass or otherwise but they look classy.
    Thanks Russell, but unfortunately they're not stained glass windows. What you're looking at there is nearly 15 years of accumulated grime.

    I've been waiting since 2006 for my wife to clean the windows and I'm starting to think it just ain't gonna happen. Another lockdown project for me.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post

    What's yer dog up to?

    Knawing on furniture?

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    ^ That's Max knawing on Coco.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    but unfortunately they're not stained glass windows. What you're looking at there is nearly 15 years of accumulated grime.
    Mendip, PM JPPR2 who is expert in cleaning windows and fly screens or amend the gardeners contract to add it to the list of things he doesn't seem to do

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