Art Deco chest of drawers restoration

Hello beautiful people and welcome to another video. In this one I'll be working on this small art deco chest of drawers. What do you think? What are we gonna do with this? So this is actually a vanity because it used to have the mirror but didn't come with it and I bought it from a lady that I found on Facebook marketplace and she started working on this but gave up halfway through. This is a very unusual damage to the veneer. There's lots of little bubbles and I think the person who was meant to upcycle this they just gave up on it when she realized that she would have to replace the veneer. I think she was trying to fix it in some other ways but that obviously didn't work. And let's address the elephant in the room. So there's half of the side missing. I think there was a major blow to the side whatever happens so I'll need to replace the whole piece. Looks like this is broken as well. Basically need to replace this piece of plywood and I need to re-glue this because it's broken. And because I was going to replace the side panel I decided to replace all of the plywood and instead of veneering the top which someone sanded through I decided to replace the whole plywood as well. So I figured that I could just use the top as a template for the new piece of plywood and that would actually save me trying to color match the old veneer to the new one and this was just going to be much easier to replace all of it. Because this is art deco so it's quite old and not particularly straight so not all the measurements are identical on both sides. I marked everything to make sure that I would put it back in the right orientation to avoid any issues. Once I got all the nails out I removed the other panels as well and this one was intact so I just used this as a template for the new panel. These panels were held in place by nails and some glue so it was pretty straightforward to remove them. I'm guessing that they're not identical so I'm gonna mark this one to make sure that this will go on the left side. This stretcher or whatever you call this was broken in half and this is what the panel was resting on and was held by so I just injected some glue and clumped it together. I removed these pieces of plywood that the sliders were attached to and I just put new sliders back in place instead. To make sure that this stretcher was strong enough on top of gluing it back together I made a small brace just by using a few screws and a small piece of wood and that would just give it an extra support. This whole thing is loose so I just need to put a little glue and a couple of nails to make sure I've got a good substrate for the piece of plywood I'm going to put on top. And once everything was structurally sound and stable I started scraping and sanding. When I was finally done with that I did a little bit more sanding but this time by hand and then I some of the scratches that I made while scraping so the wood would expand and allow me to sand it smooth. And apparently some of you like my knees so this one is for you. You're welcome. Pretty much as soon as I started posting youtube videos I've been getting comments saying something like oh I wish you could restore my face the way you restored this piece of Well I haven't been able to do anything about it until now. Hi this is my bedroom and this is Foreo Burr 2 and I'm gonna show you how you can restore your face. It comes with an app this is called Conducting Serum and the app has all sorts of pre-programmed treatments so you can just select one and it will just tell you what to do because I actually have no idea. Burr 2 by Foreo has four exclusive microcurrent types that help to tighten your skin and muscles while making your face brighter more plump and sculpted. 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Anyhow so the panels that were actually in one piece I used them as templates to make new ones and I basically just traced the shape and used my traxa to cut new panels. As I mentioned this was not exactly straight so there was no rectangles or squares and I had to adjust the shape of every panel to make it fit and because of the curve on the bottom I had to come up with a contraption to allow me to actually sand it and get the same shape but to get the basic shape of the panel I just used my jigsaw and this is the contraption that I was talking about it's basically like a drum thingy with a sandpaper on it you just stick it in your drill and bobs I didn't expect it to fit but I used my block plane to shave off a little bit on one side and that did the trick to make the other panel I used the panel that I already had I traced it and cut the second one but I made it slightly oversized just to make sure it would actually fit because they were not the same. I don't know what those noises are but I promise I'm not keeping small children in my basement. To attach the panels I used brad nails and a little bit of wood glue and here I'm just sanding a little bit of wood filler that I used for the edge because the cut wasn't perfect. This was a really tight fit at least on those three sides so I only used clamps on the back side. Once I was done with that I started taking off the veneer from the drawers and the first one I just used my chisel but that actually took quite a long time so I was much smarter with the second one and I just used my electric planer that was much easier. For the drawers I was going to use veneer instead of plywood so I cut a long strip and I basically measured to make sure I have enough and I taped off all the edges to make sure I wouldn't get contact adhesive on the veneer where I didn't want it to go if you watch my videos you know that sometimes I use wood glue sometimes it's contact adhesive it just depends what I've got available and this time I'm using contact adhesive and I like to use the one that's really runny it's just much easier to apply because the gel one it gets tacky really quickly and you don't have much time to work with it. This is pretty self-explanatory but I basically made sure that I got it evenly on the entire surface especially the edges to make sure that the veneer wouldn't lift. As always huge thank you to everyone who watches my videos especially the channel members you guys are awesome if you enjoy my videos and feeling generous you can show me and the cats some love by checking out the links in the description. I get many comments from people who say that they don't like dark wood and stained wood so for a change I thought I would do something different and this project is going to be very light I'll probably stain it but it's not going to change the color a lot from what it is right now. When using contact adhesive or contact cement as the name suggests you need to make sure that both surfaces touch each other otherwise they're not going to adhere and the wooden tool that I was using I just made it myself and it helps me make sure that I apply enough pressure to both surfaces so they stick to each other. Once the veneer was firmly in place I used my trim router and a sanding block to make sure it was nice and smooth and once I was done with that I did a bit more sanding because you know I love sanding. The insides of the drawers were not in a terrible state so I just dusted them off and I used mineral spirits to give them a really good clean with the scratchy thing and because you can never do enough sanding I did a little bit more of that. Because I'm in the UK I used a torch not a flashlight to make sure there was no scratches and because I found some I did a bit more sanding. There were two black stains they were not terrible so I just used mineral spirit to see if they would come off. They didn't I mean it helped a little bit but I also used hydrogen peroxide and that did the trick. I also sanded and cleaned with mineral spirit the inside of this chest of drawers or whatever you want to call this and it was nice and clean. And if you watch my videos you know that I always sand the back and the bottom so that's exactly what I did. And those two pieces that I'm removing I think they used to hold a mirror but the mirror wasn't there so I just took them off. And surprise surprise I did more sanding. And I also used this cute little laser thingy to put my logo on the back. So as I said I didn't really want to make this dark so I used this stain which is grayish in color and it's called driftwood. So as you can see it's not really changing much the color but it will give it that worn out washed out look like something that you would find on the beach. So that's what I'm going for and I don't know what it's gonna look like because I've never actually used it before. I think I actually lied to you I did use it on one of my other projects but it was just on the drawer fronts I think. So this is what it looks like with this stain and I'm a bit torn to be honest because I don't love it. I don't hate it but I just don't know how I feel about it. And I could either just apply tinted oil because I actually have hard wax oil that's a bit gray on top of it and just go with this or change the color completely. I don't know what do you think. I decided that I'm going to try and make tinted oil and this is just some clear satin osmo hard wax oil. So because this chest of drawers is grayish in color I think I'm gonna tint it brown and when it mixes with gray I think it will give me that that driftwood type of finish that I want. All right let's try this this one. I'm taping off the legs because I've got a plan for them and you'll see in a minute what I came up with. So this is what the tinted oil looks like. As you can see it's not gonna change the color a whole lot but it will a little bit and I think that's gonna be enough. And to be honest this whole project was a huge experiment and I actually tried a couple other things that you will see later in the video and yeah just wanted to see how it goes and try something new and for a change not stain the wood much darker than it is. Despite the fact that the veneer and the plywood that I used were brand new and from the same supplier they didn't quite look the same but this tinted oil and the stain helped a little bit to make it look more or less the same. As always I put some oil on the back to make it look nice. This might be potentially a very stupid idea but I've got some brass metal powder and uv resin and I'm gonna mix these two together and try to make these wooden legs look like they're made of brass. Never tried this before don't know if it's gonna work but I feel like experimenting so let's give it a go. Worst case scenario I'm just gonna ruin the legs. I will need to come up with an idea to fix them. I'm hoping that if I mix this powder with the resin then I can give it a light polish and it will make this brass powder shiny but I don't know. I think this will work. If it hardens I think it will work. There's only one way to find out. It's looking okay. I think I'm gonna hit the side of it so it doesn't drip. Well this absolutely sucked and I ended up painting the legs because they look terrible. Anyhow I use this contraption thing to drill holes for the hardware and I attach the handles. I don't really know how I feel about this and maybe it will grow on me I don't hate it but I definitely don't love it. I hope at least some of you like this and you can't always win so I don't know. Anyhow thank you so much for watching the video and I hope you enjoyed it. If you have comment, like and subscribe and I'll love you forever. Check out the links in the description and the link for the bird too for you. Enjoy the final results and see you in the next video!