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REFINISHING AN ANTIQUE CABINET

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comparison of the cabinet before and after work.

My client wanted to turn this piece of furniture into a pie safe by replacing the center panels of the doors with some tin she had custom designed. The design included initials of her grandchildren. When the cabinet arrived, had one broken door and a dried out finish. The knobs

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My client sent this picture when she first contacted me.
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This busted mortise and tenon joint was repaired using a couple of dowels and worked out fined.
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Here the doors with the tin inserts. The one on the left had the broken frame and put back together with dowels and glue.
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Cleaning and refurbishing the finish with beeswax, inside and out.
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New knobs, a revitalized finish, and repaired doors on this restored cabinet.

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