Furniture repair tip

[michael]

I’ve just used some strips of pine to plug the gaps in the top of an old rustic stripped and bees waxed pine kitchen table. The table top comprises of three wide planks nailed to the frame but for some reason the gaps between the planks was far too wide, hence the infill pieces.
I tried bees waxing the new strips to blend in with the old but with no success.Still far too white.
Solution, I happened to have a cigarette in my mouth while I was waxing and a piece of ash dropped onto the table. I rubbed it into the freshly bees waxed repair and it now blends in perfectly

 

[JoceAndChris]

Marvellous! I love stuff like that- just think, you could have spent a fortune and ages mucking round with stains.

Maybe I'll just rub charcoal over the new let-in sections of floorboards in the bedroom and see if that does the trick!

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Joce - you've just shattered my picture of you. I imagine you as a pipe-smoker ready to upturn and empty said pipe and rub the ash into the floor...!

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Fag ash, mixed with olive oil is an excellent way of fading out water marks on furniture. My Grandfather used to tell me that pipe ash kept the moths away from the carpets! ( that was just his excuse for sweeping the ash out of sight so that my Grandmother would not see it!)

 

[JoceAndChris]

Joce - you've just shattered my picture of you. I imagine you as a pipe-smoker ready to upturn and empty said pipe and rub the ash into the floor...!

That's right, I look like this:


http://www.djibnet.com/photo/photo.php?id=2157919447&k=dr.
:wink:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Just as I imagined you Joce :wink: