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whatsyurprob

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Old, Round Maple Table. Need advice, please. . .
« on: July 06, 2010, 11:24:50 am »
This table was at a thrift store for $20.00. Someone sprayed it with green paint so amalgamation was out of the question. They used a natural color stain and I can see why. This thing was like painting on gold when I refinished it. Stunning to say the least. I never knew maple wood could look like this. Like polished jewelry. I guess it must be old to get this kind of patina. I wouldn't know though. It has a tag that says it was made by the Northwest Chair Co., who went out of business in the 50's. It's too bad about the original finish. The top coat was like an avocado green it was so old and oxidized. Yeah, , , old. But when I don't know.

Anyway, in the first photo there's a cig burn on the top about 1/4" deep, but at least it's burnt with the grain. Small consolation, I guess.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...Round%20Table/

Should I color putty it? It's the value, if any, I'm worried about. I scraped out all the char with a butter knife. Stayed inside the concave of it never touching the top. I put a natural stain on it and that's it. Don't want to lacquer it until I get this cig burn fixed, , , or should I leave it?

One more thing. What would anyone use a table like this for? I'm stumped. Sure is Beautiful, but I can't figure that one out.



Thanx.

Yes, I'm a novice.

cogar

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Re: Old, Round Maple Table. Need advice, please. . .
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2010, 02:49:40 am »
I wish you had posted your pictures right along with your above post.

After bout 5 minutes of uploading garbage from that Photobucket site I just terminated the upload without ever seeing your pictures.

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Re: Old, Round Maple Table. Need advice, please. . .
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2010, 03:13:53 am »
I have no idea why that photobucket link is acting like that. But I can see that the search query was "round table."
There are only 17 matches for round table on photobucket and here they are. I don't think it's one of those though. ???
http://photobucket.com/images/round%20table/?filter=newest&source=header

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Re: Old, Round Maple Table. Need advice, please. . .
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2010, 10:53:52 am »
cogar, hosman....if you go to a previous post on here....you will find the pics.  whatsyurprob apparently had a problem posting!  :)
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Re: Old, Round Maple Table. Need advice, please. . .
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2010, 09:41:06 am »
I wish you had posted your pictures right along with your above post.

After bout 5 minutes of uploading garbage from that Photobucket site I just terminated the upload without ever seeing your pictures.

I apologize.  I don't know what happened.  Is this any better?
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v364/whatsyurprob/Old%20Round%20Table/?action=view&current=100_2282.jpg