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Some more projects I have been working on

bergie

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It's been too hot to do any metal detecting figured I would catch up on some of the projects. Been working on putting bottoms and some old chairs for the wife. The cabinet thingy is a island that she wants in the kitchen. Have a granite top coming for it in a week or so. The top is 36 x 69 they said it would be a round 500 pounds don't think she's going to move it too often:lol:. Another gas pump I finished for a fella a month or so ago he has to put the logos on the doors yet. The red fridge is a international Harvester that I completely redone for the wife.
 

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Great work bergie !!!! :thumbsup:

Some of those old appliances hold up amazingly well, we still use an upright freezer we got from Dutterer's in 1985 and it still works great and has never been serviced or needed fixed.
 
Hey man you got talent. The pump is beautiful and I love those old chairs myself. I've never "recaned" yet but did refinish a tiger maple one a few years back. It sits in our foyer now. Great work all around,...keep posting. -Aaron
 
Great work bergie !!!! :thumbsup:

Some of those old appliances hold up amazingly well, we still use an upright freezer we got from Dutterer's in 1985 and it still works great and has never been serviced or needed fixed.
Thanks .Have another old small refrigerator probably from the 60s in the basement works great
Hey man you got talent. The pump is beautiful and I love those old chairs myself. I've never "recaned" yet but did refinish a tiger maple one a few years back. It sits in our foyer now. Great work all around,...keep posting. -Aaron
Thanks Takes me around three hours to do a bottom quite time-consuming.
WOW, that cabinet is beautiful!
Looks like bird's-eye maple:D
Thanks matmit.A fella give me a pickup load of different types of wood couple years ago this was in it. My wife calls it Tiger Wood she want the doors made out of it. Some of the panels are ash some are Oak. She wanted it mixed up with different types of wood that's why nothing looks to same. Then she told me to burn it in spots so I did that to with a propane torch. That's why you see a lot of black streaks. Asked her if she wanted me to take a hammer and beaded up some so look really old. Of course she never got back to me on that one.:lol:
 
Dude! Is there anything you cannot do? Very much impressed with your roundabout skills no matter what...:wow2:

Thanks I guess those skills come from growing up poor. When you had to make everything. :lol:Luckily there were plenty of trees to make wheels out of for are Wagons:lol:
 
Thanks I have a sandblaster and blast all the metal work.

what type of blast media do you prefer for sheetmetal? Getting ready to blast some sheetmetal on my old truck project. I've used coal slag on the frame and also just sand. But I seem to have a heck of a time keeping from getting it plugged up. Too much dang humidity I guess
 
what type of blast media do you prefer for sheetmetal? Getting ready to blast some sheetmetal on my old truck project. I've used coal slag on the frame and also just sand. But I seem to have a heck of a time keeping from getting it plugged up. Too much dang humidity I guess

I use black beauty and sand also.Probably reclaimed sand three or four times as it gets finer each time which never plugs it up.I only have a small harbor freight sandblaster which holds a round 10 gallon of sand. A little slow but it does get the job done. I have sandblasted two old vehicles and a round 30 old gas pumps plus other items. I do my work out in front of my garage on a concrete slab. What I do is blast everything towards the garage door and reclaim it. I made funnel to screw on top of my sandblaster and use a household wire mash strainer. The strainer is big enough to let the the sand go through but keep out the big chunks. I will strain new sand to get out the little pebbles which will plug up the blaster. Humidity is a bad thing for sure some days I have trouble with it even with an air water separator on it.
 
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