{"id":4125,"date":"2016-02-18T20:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4125"},"modified":"2016-02-20T08:13:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T14:13:50","slug":"restoration-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4125","title":{"rendered":"Restoration Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am working on a new project. My wife Gloria dragged home a beat up antique piano stool (quite) a few months ago and said, \u201cHere, restore this\u2026\u201d Ha! Little realizing I wouldn\u2019t make it top priority. Well, maybe she did, as she knows me too well.<\/p>\n

So today I\u00a0took a look at it and decided now or never. I proceeded to test the surface finish which was absolutely horrendous and noted all the cracks and flaws. Yep, it was going to have to be a total teardown and rebuild.<\/p>\n

It is very old so I was certain it was put together with hide glue. It is. That means I could take it apart like my long departed grandfather had shown me when I was a young lad. He loved to restore old discarded wood furniture.<\/p>\n

There is a report over on Ramblin\u2019 Dan\u2019s Workshop<\/a> of the tear down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am working on a new project. My wife Gloria dragged home a beat up antique piano stool (quite) a few months ago and said, \u201cHere, restore this\u2026\u201d Ha! Little realizing I wouldn\u2019t make it top priority. Well, maybe she did, as she knows me too well. So today I\u00a0took a look at it and decided now or never. I proceeded to test the surface finish which was absolutely horrendous and noted all the cracks...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,133],"class_list":["post-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshop","tag-wood","tag-workshop-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}