10-31-2012, 05:29 PM
One habit that I got into to make a can of tone spray go further was to dye the wood underneath. I had, or still have, a jar of dark brown fabric dye that I would heat up and paint on the bland parts of a cabinet that I was going to tone spray dark. It takes a lot less toner to go from brown to a darker brown then from white to a darker brown. The only problem is that you have to pretty well strip all traces of finish off down to bare wood so it can penetrate.
Regards
Arran
P.S In looking closely at the pictures of this 623 and the 620 cabinets in the gallery I can see clearly how much damage someone did to the front molding on my cabinet with that disk sander. I don't know if anyone has ever attempted to reproduce the front molding for a 1936 Philco tombstone but my set could definitely use replacements of some sort, even used ones from a waterlogged cabinet.
Regards
Arran
P.S In looking closely at the pictures of this 623 and the 620 cabinets in the gallery I can see clearly how much damage someone did to the front molding on my cabinet with that disk sander. I don't know if anyone has ever attempted to reproduce the front molding for a 1936 Philco tombstone but my set could definitely use replacements of some sort, even used ones from a waterlogged cabinet.
