A few of my cubes in use at the Junction Eatery on Dundas St. W, Toronto.

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Working on this outdoor teak dining set at the moment, lots stripping and sanding. Recommend a wipe on teak oil finish rather than a spar varnish, or leaving it without finish. It will eventually go a nice silver grey when exposed to the elements.

Priced from $50-$120 depending on difficulty!

Refinishing a walnut table… strip, sand, repair and stain

At the moment doing a mix of antique repair work, fixing chairs, tables and some trim work projects. Also working on a small vintage kitchen project. It’s almost ready for painting. Above photo shows it’s current state, finishing up the doors. It’s all going to be painted an off-white colour when it’s finished. Posting some photos taken during installation below.

A small rustic shelf made from reclaimed pine. It measures 30″ High by 17″ Wide.

This a project from 2010 which I have just gotten around to posting about. It’s a 19th century reclaimed pine piece from a chapel somewhere in Nova Scotia. It looks like it’s in a gothic revival style, the carving is impressive and must have taken quite a while to do at the time. The plan was to add a base, install drawers and use the piece as a feature sideboard/buffet.  As usual posting some images taken during construction to give you an idea of the process.

One of the first things to do was to take apart, repair and reinforce the structure. Added extra support for the drawer on both sides.

I built a new platform shown above to help support the top sections. Screwed the top sections to the platform so that the drawers opened and closed smoothly.

The photo above shows installed drawers and some furniture repair work in progress. I custom made the drawers out of poplar and attached pine fronts.

Here are the new support bases. Laminated mdf and added inset molding details to give them some character. Mdf is sometimes frowned upon but it is nice to work with, except for the dust.

After installation… turned out really well.

Made this medicine cabinet for our bathroom. It’s a simple painted cabinet with a slab door with a cross shaped reveal, which gives the door some visual interest.

Allowed extra room at the bottom for large containers and a made a cutout instead of using a knob (bottom left).

Here’s a nice danish style coffee table made by Gibbard Craftsmens Est 1935. I wasn’t able to find out too much information on the piece. It must have been part of a line that the Napanee based Gibbard made, or a group of craftsmen that broke away from the original company. The original Gibbard was founded in 1835 and use to make top notch furniture and case goods until they closed recently.  Anyway, it’s a nice looking table. It had some black water stains on the top so decided to remove all the finish off. Normally I don’t recommend doing this as it can decrease the value dramatically. In this case the damage was extensive and easier to completely redo. It turned out that hiding under the brown stain and lacquer was some nice book matched cherry veneer on the top. The legs and apron are all solid cherry as well. It’s amazing the difference in quality between a piece that was mass produced 40 years ago and the equivalent new pieces that are sold today.

Hand rubbed a few coats of oil based finish and it turned out really well.

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