dining room table leaf replacement
hello everyone its brittaney with tru furniture in this video i will show you how to remove a veneer top form an old piece of furniture i found this piece at a local yard sale its just a really cool looking end table the only problem with that is that i has a two layer vaneer on it that is an extremely terrible condition i run into this a lot and re-doingfurniture like i do so i'm gonna take stab at getting thisoff and i'll show you how i do it so the tools i always start out with is
a and chisel scraper tool i like it to have a sharp edge to it i can really getunder at the the thin vaneer and left it up also iuse a hammer i've already started to peel this up a little bit as you can see it looks like it might come off in one big chunk with is really nice so and i'm going to just peel off pieces right now that are coming off on their own try to keep it pretty flat other wise it will go right into the wood underneath
and you'll have deep gauges in there alright to this is what i have left overafter peeling off the majority of the veneer your still going to have a couple spots that are really hard to get off becausethe clue is still sticking to the table what i'm doing here i have my iron seton a medium setting the lowest setting i can get with the steam hold it on your spot for a few seconds and then try to scrape it off with your scraping tool
okay i just finished using my iron to try and take off this left over veneer that was really glued on their i got as much off as i could, i didn't get it all off i'm pretty sure if i just sand it with my electric hand sander with a really coarse grit sandpaper right now i have a 60 grit sand paper in here i'm pretty confident that will get the remaining particles of the veneer off of here so i'm going to do that right now
okay so after you're done sanding off the remaining veneer you want to try and get the glue off with a chemical product you don't haveto use a chemical product i'm sure there's other ways to do this but i've find that this is the fastest and easiestway so always use in a ventilated arearight now i'm on my back porch i'm just going to pour it on places where i see glue i"m going to use this sponge brush to apply it
you don't want to aggressively brush it on, just spread it around and leave it alone otherwise it will deactivate it and it won't work as well as it should so i'll let that sit for a couple minutes then i'll come back with my scraper ok so after it sat for a couple minutes just take your scraping tool just scrape it off with some pressure
don't get this stuff on your hands because it will burn your skin i'm just going to do this to the rest of the table, and then i will go over it with some steel wool and lacquer thinner and then that should be good that should be the end of the process then i will clean up the table with my sanding again until i get the finish i want i plan on staining this table top and then putting a poly over it here's the tabletop after i
sanded got it real nice and smooth got out any imperfections i wantednow it's ready to be stained and poly'd here's what the finished piece looks like i used one coat of a dark walnut stain with two coats a high gloss polyurathan i think it looks really nice it kinda has an old barnwood look to it because it didn't have a
thank you for watching my tutorialvideo on how to remove veneer and it just goes to show you that youcan take a piece of furniture that about to go into the dumpster and turn it into a jem that will just lookbeautiful in your home so always be willing to give thatpiece of furniture a second chance if i left anything out that you guys have questions about don't hesitate toleave me a comment i'll get back to you as soon as i canplease follow me on facebook @loveturfurniture or you can alwaysvisit my website to see what's going on
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