RESTORED AND UPGRADED ANTIQUE WAITRESS STATION
This poor soul was literally found in a barn, abandoned and abused. I was renovating the barm and this piece was always in the way but way too nice to smash up or burn so one day I said to the customer that I thought it was way to nice to be sitting around with mouse turds in it and they told me to take it home!
It came to me with most of the back smashed out of it(I think they had used it for a stereo cabinet at one point and needed to get all the wires in and out of so, the back had to go. Looked to me like they took a hammer to it and just smashed it out.
Knowing it would probably never do service in a restaurant again I decided to modify it for another use and replaced all the broken parts of the back and bottom, which was rotted out, with aromatic cedar.
The veneer on the side panels was rippled and dried out and not so good looking but surprisingly, 6 coats of warm Danish Oil did the trick and took out nearly all the rippling and shined it right up almost good as new.
I never did sell the piece. I kept it for myself and it now gets used for storing bedding and pajamas!
It came to me with most of the back smashed out of it(I think they had used it for a stereo cabinet at one point and needed to get all the wires in and out of so, the back had to go. Looked to me like they took a hammer to it and just smashed it out.
Knowing it would probably never do service in a restaurant again I decided to modify it for another use and replaced all the broken parts of the back and bottom, which was rotted out, with aromatic cedar.
The veneer on the side panels was rippled and dried out and not so good looking but surprisingly, 6 coats of warm Danish Oil did the trick and took out nearly all the rippling and shined it right up almost good as new.
I never did sell the piece. I kept it for myself and it now gets used for storing bedding and pajamas!
