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Re: Furniture Touchup (OT? Well, I could touch 'em up IN my

To: "GA Carnut" <gacarnut@hotmail.com>, shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Furniture Touchup (OT? Well, I could touch 'em up IN my
From: "Bill Engle, Sr." <whesr@iglou.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:01:52 -0500
You might try a piece of the clear wall edge protector on the table.
Bill


At 12:00 PM 1/11/2004, GA Carnut wrote:

>I have some chairs and a table that the wife bought.  She loves 'em but 
>when you slide the chairs up to the table, the bottom edge of the tabletop 
>nicks the chairs, and nocks the paint off.  They're farmhouse-type 
>furniture, w/ black painted (distressed) chairs and a black table w/ 
>natural satin-poly'd top - solid wood.
>
>Short term solution:
>
>Home Depot didn't have any solid color touchup pens, only stained ones 
>(semi-transparent).  Anybody have any suggestions for a source of paint 
>and/or a touchup pen/marker?  I need satin black.
>
>Dealing w/ the company, they're local, and won't return our calls.  They 
>did send a touchup marker, but it's graphite colored, not satin 
>black.  The repairs w/ that pen look almost as bad as the bare-wood 
>exposed marks...
>:-)
>
>Long term solution:
>
>Take my sander and w/ a fine paper round the bottom edge, so it's not so 
>sharp.  Then, use some satin-poly and w/ a sponge touch up the bottom edge 
>a bit, if any sanding is noticable from the top.  I think it'd blend back 
>in to the rest of the finish (same technique I use when spot-fixing 
>scratches in our solid-hardwood floor).
>
>Any ideas?  Pros/cons?  Do's or don'ts?
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>Chip
>
>
>Chip Mautz
>Dacula, GA
>
>'65 Austin Healey Sprite
>'88 BMW 528e
>'03 Chevy Suburban
>
>I didn't grow up - my toys just got more expensive.





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