Refurbished 25+ year old Bench and much older ash tray

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Refurbished 25+ year old Bench and much older ash tray

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SoloCamo Megalomaniacal Registered: November 2004 Location: Spring Hill, FL Posts: 12,608 users gallery	A project that was supposed to take a simple afternoon ended up being a 2 day workhouse project. Once I broke all the old wood off (original wood that was molded, ruined, and painted over 5 times over) I got started. I had to buffer the old metal and smooth it out, and before I could even start, I had to saw off over 10 rusted bolts that somehow took well over 2 hours of torture. When done, I repainted it a glossy black. Same goes for the Ash tray, buffed it and repainted it.. Then for the bench I got some new pine wood and stained it red mahogany to give it a good look, bolted it up, and let it sit for a day to dry up completely. It's by no means perfect, but for my first "refurbishing" thing i've ever done, I don't think it came out half bad. What do you all think of it?
	· Date: February, 16, 2007 · Views: 4725 · Filesize: 62.8kb, 356.9kb · Dimensions: 800 x 600 ·
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howste
Thaumaturge Member

Registered: October 2001
Location: West Haven, Utah
Posts: 12,236

February, 16, 2007 9:13am

Rating: 10

Nice job!

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zen
Ultimate Member

Registered: January 2002
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 2,532

February, 16, 2007 10:49am

Rating: 10

Looks awesome Solocamo! I love those style of benches.

Not too sure about the pine though. Something a little harder for longevity. Excellent work though!

Rootstonian
Ultimate Member

Registered: March 2005
Location: Out of my mind
Posts: 2,750

February, 17, 2007 7:56am

Looks great coming from a part-time woodworker here. I would be proud to have it at my house

If it's out of the weather and sunlight, stained pine should hold up fine.

Xeroid
Ultimate Member

Registered: October 2001
Location: Georgia
Posts: 2,925

February, 17, 2007 10:37am

My wife has a bench almost exactly like that on our front porch. The backrest on her's has 3 slats instead of 2 like yours. My wife got the metal pieces from her mother and my father replaced the wood parts for her and repainted the metal. On my wife's bench the wood is painted an off white instead of stained.

Nice work!