Refinishing Wood chair by Shapira Builders

Posted by Dov Shapira+ on June 9, 2013 in My personal work, Portfolio | 43 comments

Refinishing wood chairs

It takes few steps to refinish woodwork.

First step is dusting and cleaning.
Second step, light sanding.
Next step is wiping the woodwork with mineral spirit.

The fourth step is mixing tung oil and stain.
Three parts of stain and one part of tung oil.

Freely brush the mixture on the wood using natural bristles brush.

There is nothing to worry about, this mixture has a very slow dry time.
Just keep brushing as the wood keeps absorbing until it looks good to you.

You may add more stain to get a darker shade.
In the next following days, just add few more coats of tung oil.

Allow few days for the oily application to cure and dry to the touch.

For exterior application like the chair in the picture, I do NOT recommend finishing with polyurethane .
The polyurethane will flake off at some point.

However, you will have to apply tung oil once a year or as needed, this way it will always look natural and will reserve the beauty of the wood.

Resources:

http://shapirabuilders.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=338&action=edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung_oil

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The Naked Decorator Veronica Salomon 

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