Congratulations with this great find, Roger.
It will be very interesting to see this project moving ahead. There are obviously some work waiting in repairing veneer, matching the grain, and later on matching the color etc, but I know you will get good help too adding to your own expertise, so the machine is in the best hands.
An unexpected bargain.
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The green line is still the grain pattern if you look very closely. Its a column of grain markings as you go down the furniture where damp has got into the veneer and opened the grain up and it subsequently goes black and gives it that smudged appearance. In reality its mold or fungal spores.
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That is weird... I have never seen that on oak veneer before. The smudged/black stripes seem too uniform for mold, but what do I know? If it's mold, then that finish needs to be stripped as part of the restoration - black mold is not healthy...Steve wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 6:07 pmThe green line is still the grain pattern if you look very closely. Its a column of grain markings as you go down the furniture where damp has got into the veneer and opened the grain up and it subsequently goes black and gives it that smudged appearance. In reality its mold or fungal spores.
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That is a nice machine! I have the Lumière version, the 510, also in oak, but its tinge is much lighter than this one in the photos.