I have a small old table - I 'rescued' and revamped it years ago and it has sentimental value - and I kind of like it - sort of shabby chic -
It was roughly nailed together, top side supports were made from orange boxes etc ...top and shelf is made from a really soft wood...
An accident involving children (one of which was a 44yr old) meant that it ended up in pieces with the top, shelf and one leg split.
I took it apart and glued the splits back together. I sanded down all the bits and stripped the varnish off the top. To reassemble it I pushed nails in the same holes but glued it with wood glue and/or no more nails...
This is second time the top has been off and the nails are now recessed in the top ...I had filled them with bought wood filler but I couldn't get a really good match...so this time I saved the sanding dust (the last bit from the top after stripping) and mixed it with evostick wood adhesive and used that...
It looked brilliant wet -but it has dried really really dark - almost black? It really looks bad.....
Does anyone know why this happened? I thought I only used the dust from the bare wood -but maybe it had varnish/nitromors in it? Or maybe it is just the type of wood? Or any other ideas?
Fortunately it has shrunk as well so there are now dips - so I can add more filler on top...and I have more sanding dust...any suggestions?
(I'm going to varnish it once with a coloured varnish and then give the top a couple of coats of heavy duty clear)
It was roughly nailed together, top side supports were made from orange boxes etc ...top and shelf is made from a really soft wood...
An accident involving children (one of which was a 44yr old) meant that it ended up in pieces with the top, shelf and one leg split.
I took it apart and glued the splits back together. I sanded down all the bits and stripped the varnish off the top. To reassemble it I pushed nails in the same holes but glued it with wood glue and/or no more nails...
This is second time the top has been off and the nails are now recessed in the top ...I had filled them with bought wood filler but I couldn't get a really good match...so this time I saved the sanding dust (the last bit from the top after stripping) and mixed it with evostick wood adhesive and used that...
It looked brilliant wet -but it has dried really really dark - almost black? It really looks bad.....
Does anyone know why this happened? I thought I only used the dust from the bare wood -but maybe it had varnish/nitromors in it? Or maybe it is just the type of wood? Or any other ideas?
Fortunately it has shrunk as well so there are now dips - so I can add more filler on top...and I have more sanding dust...any suggestions?
(I'm going to varnish it once with a coloured varnish and then give the top a couple of coats of heavy duty clear)
