A friend gave me an old hall table, it had been living in a shed for about four years. Time to upcycle again.
Trying to remove the 'pretend' leather top was pretty grim. After much faffing about with knives, sanders and copious swearing. I Google'd for a solution,
A STEAM IRON
What a dream,,. it slid off the top with ease, the iron was a bit stained but cleaned up and was good for it's original purpose.
If I had to do this again i'd put a damp cloth between
the iron and the table top.
After drawing the design on the top with pencil, rulers and various sized plates. I burnt grooves into the patterns. The top of the table was originally stained dark so I had to paint a white-ish undercoat.
I then painted the patterns and motif with Acrylic paint, tidied up the burned grooves with my pyrography machine, then slapped some varnish on.
The wording on the top is "The good thing about tables is they turn" which, after i'd burnt the wording in I realised that this table could never turn....😏
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