Refinishing Furniture. Lov'n my RO90

[iamnothim]

[attachimg=3]My wife wanted me to take some Davis bedroom furniture and make it look like trendy distressed Restoration hardware pieces.  Originally I was going to use GF black milk paint until I hit it with the RO90 and found out the whole thing is white oak.  (maybe it red).  I switched to GF ebony dye/stain.

That bad boy (RO90) is amazing.  It zipped through the accessible flat surfaces in no time and saved me from the mess and expense of Soy-a-Gel on these large areas.  The delta pad is great too.  I compared it to my ETS 150/3, with 80 grit on flat areas.  The 150 took forever.

Yes I know it's a finish sander and that's why I bought it.  I used it to flatten in dishes left by the RO 90.

My new Fuji Mini-Mite3 arrived and blew the doors off the product my Earlex 5000 produced.  Night and day.  Toy to tool.  I shot GF water based lacquer.  I got a tip from Charles Neil on using black stain.  I was getting ghosting from remnants of the Soy-a-gel and paint residue in the deep grain.  Charles said to use 2oz of India Ink per quart of black stain.  It worked great!

Be sure to get the non-waterproof kind when using water base stain.

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[iamnothim]

Still not making much sawdust these days as I have am moving on to stripping pieces three and four.  [unsure]

Here's the distressed tall bureau with GF ebony dye, three coats of GF water based gloss lacquer where the first coat is a glaze with more ebony dye.  The last coat is GF satin lacquer.  Still loving the Fuji Mini Mite3.  It's great.  Kudos to Charles Neil for instructions on the glaze coat.  Huge difference.

I distressed edge areas and some flat surfaces by the drawer pulls after the glaze coat.  I used a rubber hand sanding block with 3M 2 1/2" stick roll sandpaper.  After the raw wood is exposed I went over it with GF light brown dye to "age" the sanded area.  Then a wash of diluted ebony dye.

I purchased new hinges from Horton Brasses.  A great resource for quality hardware 

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It's not MY cup of tea, but you certainly accomplished your goal of making it look aged. You have some mad finishing skills as well. Kudos!