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Fred and Barb Emberlin, Canning
Street, Lucknow, refinish old furniture
in their garage in the summer months.
Fred, a retired interior decorator, says it .
wouldn't have paid him to stop decora-
ting to redo furniture, but he enjoys
refinishing furniture as a hobby.
Fred would never us a metal
scraper to strip old finish, because it
could nick or cut the wood. He uses an
old wisk cut short or a curly katerHe has
used a metal scraper on badly stained
windowsills. He uses a varnish remover
and polystrip, which is water washable..
"You can never clean them off too
good," says Fred. "When it looks good,
ao it once again." He strips all pieces
he work's on two or three times.
When he washes off the polystrip, he
uses a sprayer and it's surprising to see
the particles that come off. This is why
he and Barb do their refinishing in the
garage, because things get rather
sloppy.
Tfiey allow the furniture to dry for two . .
days before applying the finish. Fred
likes to use a sanding sealer, which
dries in about two . hours, because
varnishes and urethane don't finish
down the same.
. Barb says most of the refinishing 'tl<iey
do is for their children, like the dining
room suites for their daughter, Mary and
their son, John, and the old high chair
and the $11 chest they made into a desk
for another daughter..
Barb remembers with fondness the
sideboard in their son, John's dining
room suite and also a china cabinet they
did once for a friend,
This past summer their daughter,
Mary, brought home a cradle which
belonged to a friend of hers, who is
expecting her first child. The cradle is
over 100 years old and four generations
of the family have slept their babies in
the cradle. Barb and'Fred.refinished the
cradle and Fred made new rockers for
it, from a pattern he got from John
Wraith. The old rockers had been
replaced by little wheels., which had
since become worn and bent.
, Fred ,found that the place on the
cradle where the rockers were to fit was
slanted and the pattern made the
rockers slanted to fit perfectly.
Barb collects salt and pepper shakers
and goes to auctionsales to find salt and
peppers and old furniture. At the time
she was doing the cradle; she found an
unfinished .cradle at an auction sale,
which sold for $84. She finds that you
can't buy at auctions the way you used
to, "because stuff is so expensive". But
the odd piece she brings home they
refinish and it usually ends up in the
home of one of their children.
"We Bever get our own things
done," she•says, looking at an, old high
chair painted red .which they may .get
+in p to refinish next summer.
Fred Emberlin is especially proud of the dining room suite he and. his wife, Barb refinished
for their son John and hter--law Deli The sideboard.is a favourite with Barb. Fred
never uses a metal scraper to stripold finish but rather an old wisk or a curly kate. He says
• you can never clean off furniture too well when -refinishing and when a piece looks good, he
always does it once again.
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