The FLAKIEST dresser of all time... Furniture Restoration
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The restoration of a 1965 dresser that just may be the flakiest piece of furniture I have ever seen. You never know what may lie underneath...
I got this dresser for free on Facebook Marketplace. I was drawn to the simple midcentury modern design, and aside from some small damages, it was in great condition. Because of the brown flaky layer, it was hard to tell what kind of quality lied underneath, but I was pleasantly surprised in the end.
Hope you enjoy the video :)
- Andy
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The previous owner did NOT remove the initial surface compound, so their choice of finish could NOT adhere. Polyurethane will flake this badly, when not applied properly. I think they used a brush application and it was too thick.
@Mundi Odium Removing the old finish first. Clean the surface, dry it, sand it, blow the dust off, then apply in thin coats. Allowing each coat to dry thoroughly, before adding the next. Like several days, between coats. If you don't allow it to dry, between coats, the old coat won't be properly adheard to the previous coat and they all flake off.
Agreed. There are late commers to the paint industry that can stick to almost anything, but polyurethane, especially high gloss, can still present problems for some. Usually either removal or an esufficient scuffing with an intermediary coat of a good primer are still required. Polyurethane is durable tough stuff, and sometimes a major pain in the ars. 😄
Agree. It was not shellac, just poorly applied poly. People probably assumed shellac because antique furniture can flake or have crazing when it is damaged. However, it does not look the same as what you have.
i couldn't tell if it was just paint on old paint or paint on surface it wasn't formulated for
this is literally the comment i was gonna leave! thanks for saving me the trouble!
I am so happy you usually go for the woodgrain. It is painful to watch these furniture "restoration" videos where they strip, sand, then cover beautiful woodgrain with chalk paint.
Always the chalk paint.
Also! I like no music, I like hearing your tools at work!
As always, great job, thoroughly entertaining and informative. (I make miniature furniture and love seeing unique pieces to scale down and replicate, you always show good ones!)
I'm with you on that. I prefer no music also. And as soon as they bring out the paint I lose interest, I hate painted furniture!!
Can we talk about the awful two tone paint trend! 😢
I like music as long as it is soothing. I really really like the wood tones. Against painting unless it is of the utmost necessity.
Great job.💪
Some of us love the chalk paint. Very easy to use and great for high use furniture. Robust as anything.
@@toniisaacson6282 I think it is a sin to cover beautiful wood with paint. Save paint for ugly wood or non-wood products.
I have seen this once before: a family member gave their sofa with wooden flat handles for a restoration and the guy was so proud to tell her that he gets the smoothest and shiniest finishes on wood by applying.... CAR PAINT. A few years later it started flaking exactly like that and when I stripped it it came off like this exaclty. Good work.
He's really multi-talented. He's good at restoring and good at editing his videos. Like some of the editing shots he does are really brilliant. He has a great sense of humor too.
Imagine looking randomly at a furniture and you realized that it's older than you. Just amazing.
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Or realizing that you are older than it…lol
Superb editing ✔️, intricate attention to detail ✔️, perfect repair work ✔️, amazing transformation ✔️. Great job!
✔️ Great sense of humor
I love how you stained it. I may only be in 9th grade but I had to take a tech Ed course in 7th and eighth grade, and the woodworking part was my favorite. I hated the smell of the stain, but my finished wood projects always made me happy.
It’s really great that you have an appreciation for woodworking from your classroom. I hope you will continue to learn. It’s wonderful to see our own work. I took a woodworking class in my early 50’s and convinced my husband to help me build a room on our house and another pantry. It took a year of every Saturday and Monday holidays but it turned out great and passed inspection every time.
I always enjoy your silent humor. I laughed multiple times, and you didn't even say anything. 🤣 Very nice restoration Andy!
The bare wood grain is stunning.
“Tease it gently” made my heart flutter!
But really love the kona stain.....superb! That grain is WOW!
This is a dipped finish that was popular during the 50s and 60s. It was a precursor to polyurethane. It almost looks like a layer of plastic.
I was thinking PlastiKote.
The video composition was fun to watch. The humor did not go unnoticed. Thank you.
Such a beautiful piece. I'm a sucker for those mid-century modern legs.
You think those are something, I gotta tell you about how the kids played with my hairy legs in the pool!
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cannot explain how much i love resoration videos with no talking. Like hush lemme hear the crunchy restoration sounds
Beautiful restoration and I especially appreciate your attention to details. Creative camerawork too AND no music to fast forward through.
I do the same thing (fast forward that is) I love his videos. He just does his job and we get to watch. I like the sound of tools.
The corner camouflage was brilliant great job love your channel
Wow! Zuerst erkennen, dass unter dem häßlichen Lack (?) so ein schönes Möbel steckt und dann auch noch das perfekte Gespür für die großartige Restaurierung! Respekt! 👏
Surprisingly enough, the veneer on the drawers was very well matched, on both sides---I cannot imagine WHY on earth it was covered in such awful goop! A true beauty revealed!! Thank you! 👍👍
Wow , that is really good to watch. Refreshing to see someone who truly cares about the end product not just the buck.👍
I just discovered your channel and I'm binge watching it! Great content and editing.
You have an eye for detail on all of your projects. I love them all! You do great work. Thank you for sharing.
Short and sweet. I love the faux graining in the epoxy wood patch. Very nice.
I love how much you recycle (e.g., with the reused seat cushion sponge)!!
Love from a fellow Canadian
Incredible transformation. I wouldn't mind having that in my house. Amazing camera work too
That is a beautiful piece- I would buy that in a minute! The peeling finish was oddly satisfying, kinda like peeling a sunburn. Great save! 🌟
Beautiful transformation, it looks new now. I didn’t think I was going to like the darker stain, but I love how it brings out the grain. It’s mid century but with a slightly modern edge now.
Thanks for showing and explaining your techniques. 👍💯
Oh yeah! I love the final look of this mid-mod 1965's dresser. :)) 😘it's beautiful!!
Your piece turned out sooo Gorgeous!!! Thank you for sharing !!!🌸💫🌸
Un placer verte trabajar. A ti y a tu "amigo" Richard 😉😍😍😍😍😍
I LOVE your videos and I always look forward to more. Thank you for all of your hard work!
A beautiful transformation, but a lot of scraping, Richard really got a workout. Thank you for sharing your work.
Beautiful new look for an older unappreciated piece! Brought it back to life!
Another outstanding makeover young man. You are such a master. Great job on the corner repair. Thanks so much.
Such a beautiful piece and what a great revamp too. Just gorgeous 😍
Love your work! I could watch all day!
U are a magician. I dont have more words to write. I just wanna say, i wait for you new uploads, and the uploads are always worth waiting for
I LOVE the sander transition. So good.
I can only repeat myself….STUNNING! Both the craftsmanship as the editing. I always make looking at your videos a special moment by making it a moment for myself and not a rushed looking at it. It is so calm and relaxing and the endresult is always perfect! Thank you.
The finish you scraped off looks like a polyurethane finish with the stain built into it. Minwax makes and Flecto Varathene used to make this product. I make my own by using X3D stain by Flecto in the Varathene and spraying it. I never go over an old finish and always get the wood down to a clean sanded condition. I usually stain the wood directly and use the above method to beef up the colour when needed. It's how you make maple look like walnut.😁 The species is Ash, "the poor man's Oak"
Lovely ! You must be the most talented futniture fixer in the world !
Wowowowow, I am so glad you stained instead of painting, it's so beautiful and simple!!!! Little detailed repairs like that are so intentional and precise, it makes the piece special.
I would buy that in a heartbeat! I love your work and your videos.
Great job on the dresser and the video!
That is lovely. Beautiful wood underneath is now shown to its best advantage.
So satisfying! I remembered restoring a dresser that was made around the Civil War times, taking it apart, sanding it, staining it and even restored the signature on one of the bottom drawers by retracing it. It had red stain stuff on it so when I sanded it the first time my legs were orange (probably cuz I was wearing shorts)
Nevertheless I had fun restoring it and is in my living room. Every time I see it I think of how hard I worked on it
Good job! Such a beautiful dresser. You really picked the right stain for this one. I love how one side is drawers and they're shaped different and then the other side is a door.
I have never seen a better stocked workroom or better organized. Amazing
Thank you 🙏
Amazing, the way the piece should have looked originally, thanks for sharing.
Wow I thoroughly enjoyed this video!!! The editing is pure genius!! This piece turned out stunning!! Your videos are like asmr for me!! Please don’t stop making them!!!
Hi there. I am always amazed at antique furnishers how they can be transformed into new modern style furnisher when worked on and be in the right hands like yourself. Once done it seems like they took on a whole new life of its own. I love the end result..stunning👍👌
I can't say anything but WOW! Enjoyed watching your masterpiece.
Wait am I dreaming? I don’t need to wait for a month for a new video? NICE! 😂🖤
All this hard work paid off - Gorgeous! You wouldn't even know it was the same dresser!
👋👋👋your editing is so cool
The filming and editing quality of these videos just keeps getting better and better
Love this simple yet charming restoration. I would love to have the dresser in my room :))
Love your videos!! Thank you for sharing. It was a beautiful transformation
Gorgeous editing, gorgeous craftsmanship, gorgeous restoration, gorgeous furniture. I love how it went from some old piece you'd not even want to touch due to the crumbs, to something so modern and fresh.
The very first thing I thought when I saw this was it could be used as storage in a garage. Now this looks like it was bought brand new from a furniture store for someone's living room.
It looks so much better than before!!
You are by far my Favorite furniture Restorer... Great Job...
The little "o Canada" made me smile so much. Robertson screws are superior 😁
Loved this transformation, Andy. Love the visuals!!! Keep these a comin'!
What a stunning result. Very well done. Thank you for sharing.
Another masterpiece as usual! What a joy to be able to bring this piece, destined for the land fill and bring it back to glory. Thanks for sharing the process. You are one extremely talented young man. Take care, stay safe.
So terrible before; so beautiful afterwards. The peeling was unreal! I love your choice of stain color. The wood grain is gorgeous! Wonderful job!
Compared to the others, this is nice, quick and simple! 👏🏽
Wow! Beautiful piece and workmanship.
What a beautiful dresser. Great work!
What a huge improvement for that dresser with beautiful lines! Love watching your videos… I learn soo much!
It always cracks me up when you mix things on a photograph that I think is an actual piece of furniture! 🤣🤣 That's so funny and clever.! Fabulous video! 🌞👍♥️
Love the sanding transition!! Really cool effects as always!!
love the different transitions and camera angles. it's like i needed to see it from between two bushes but I didn't know it.
I loved the video, your eye for detail is great.
I would love a video of a piece with a lot of repairs to make, and another with a piece that you use your creativity a lot for a very big change in finish.
Thank you for this satisfying video :)
Sometimes less is more. Very nice restoration back to something like it's original condition. No need to do anything else.
Andy! Awesome job my friend. Your editing skills are exceptional and you have an incredible vision for every single piece. You've earned all the recent success. Barry
Such a beautiful piece. I believe the old finish was tinted varnish
Loved the old- west gun slinger intro!
Truly remarkable transformation. When I first saw your chosen item for this restoration project, I had absolutely zero hopes that you would be able to amaze me to such an extent, a truly amazing transformation. Loved the end result.
Beautiful job, what a charming piece now.
Just 😮 What a great job.
That turned out beautiful, wowza
It's amazing you took something so awful and turned it into something so cool. Love it.
Short and sweet 😋 Brilliant as always.
Big Bear Hugs from a 68 yr old Grammy from Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼
Great job, looks much better now. Keep going 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
So satisfying. I always look forward to your videos!
while i dont like end color i am AMAZED how good final restoration turned out. and epoxy masking? briliant. i also like your editing :D
Thank you for always paying attention to the sound as well! The way you edit videos is amazing and so considerate of the viewer 💜
I enjoy all your videos and amazing flips, makes me want to try woodworking ☺️
I would say you are a Magician, But you work to hard to make beautiful furniture, out of almost nothing. Great Job!
Beautiful restore, loved the camouflage on the repairs also!
Stunning as usual. You are very good at camouflage 😊. This piece sure has a great start on it's new life.
A joy to watch as always! I'm so glad you stained it too, this turned out gorgeous! The design of the drawers? 😩
You've always got the best most inspiring vibes man. Your sandpaper drawer organization was so satisfying.
ALSO, are we entering an Andy mullet era?! 😳 As a mullet enjoyer please say it is so.
I believe the mullet is going through an Andy era.
@@ModernMakeovers 😂 The powerful Andy mullet, I may have to update mine.
Fabulous Andy, I love how you’ve brought out the beautiful grain 😊
Beautifully done.
Amazing work as always. Your garden is so beautiful
Beautiful!
You had me at the “Six Million Dollar Man” sound effects. Great video.
Such precise sanding and staining! I'm very impressed!