Re: Planktons Deluxe Furniture Restoration and Other Odds and Ends
Coffee Table Disc Rack continued:
I sat and mulled it over. What color? What finish, and should I sand the top down to get the warped veneer and pressboard smooth again? Hmmm...
Early last year I had worked with a local group on some logo artwork for an event they held, so I put the artwork and the table together in my head and it was a resounding "Yes!". The original work was multi-colored, this is the 3-color version for budget printing on shirts, disc, and swag for the event:
The purpose of this piece was to sit in my garage holding discs with a car race theme placed on the top of it, so it really needed some casters. At first, I thought industrial style, but after some thought I went with office chair style black rollers.
I had the artwork printed on heavy stock so as to keep it from warping from the spray adhesive when applying it to the top, but first I had to decide on the colors before it was placed. Blue seemed like a good choice for this, with some orange and white accents:
So, after a few odds and ends and many, many, many, many coats of polyurethane, it was finally finished:
I did mock it up in 3D as well:
As far as finishing/sanding the top, I did get it down to the pressboard with a hand sander, but it was too far gone to go any further.
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