29-12-2012, 02:51 PM
I got this off e-Bay last week for the sum of 99p, though there was five pound ten postage on top of that.
The seller declared that the glass was broken and missing and that one of the feet was damaged.
It arrived yesterday and I was very pleased to find that a flat glass would be clear of the hands. I cut a piece OK, and glass-cutting is not my long suit, but got it a smidge too long which lead to an hour's work with a diamond file.
I couldn't decide if the hands were coated in nicotine and/or condensed chip-fat or whether they'd originally had a gilt coating which had perished. They looked horrible whatever but came up very nicely and easily with Brasso.
I then cut the damaged area out of the foot. Luckily this was only screwed on so there were no old glue joints to worry about un-doing.
I then let in a new piece of oak and and shaped it after the glue had set.
A bit of stain and polish on that got it bended in nicely and after that it was just a case of a good polish of the whole thing.
- Joe
The seller declared that the glass was broken and missing and that one of the feet was damaged.
It arrived yesterday and I was very pleased to find that a flat glass would be clear of the hands. I cut a piece OK, and glass-cutting is not my long suit, but got it a smidge too long which lead to an hour's work with a diamond file.
I couldn't decide if the hands were coated in nicotine and/or condensed chip-fat or whether they'd originally had a gilt coating which had perished. They looked horrible whatever but came up very nicely and easily with Brasso.
I then cut the damaged area out of the foot. Luckily this was only screwed on so there were no old glue joints to worry about un-doing.
I then let in a new piece of oak and and shaped it after the glue had set.
A bit of stain and polish on that got it bended in nicely and after that it was just a case of a good polish of the whole thing.
- Joe