High Gloss Black

My old man is working on a Brunswick Gold Crown for a guy and wanted to convert the corners and feet to a high gloss black instead of the silver.  He gave them to me to powder coat but I couldn't get the impurities to stop coming out of the metal.  I decided that I would shoot the with base/clear.  Need to wet sand them to get that orange peel out.  Hopefully they will look like a mirror when I'm done. 

Delivered Anniversary

Well I finally finished the Anniversary that I was working on.  My brother and I installed it this weekend in North Jersey for a customer.  The table looked spectacular in the purpose built room.  You'll have to excuse the junk photos.  I woke up at 5 am to install it and forgot the camera.

Anniversary Castings

Started polishing the corner castings.  There is some heavy pitting that I'm trying to work through but you have to remember this table is 75 years old, its going to have some character marks, thats part of the nostalgia.

Anniversary Legs Finished

Finished the legs last night.  The final step was to wrap the bottom with brushed aluminum.  Super pleased with the results.

Brunswick Centennial

My dad restored and sold this Brunswick Centennial.  I think these are the coolest tables ever made.

Anniversary Rail Sights

Drilling and putting the mother of pearl rail sights in.

Rusty Bolts

 Part of the restoration is taking the rusty old bolts and making them new again.  You could probably buy new bolts but I feel its important to retain as much of the original table as possible.  Plus it just seems like a waste to throw away perfectly good bolts. 

Legs

Worked on the Anniversary legs tonight.  The top shows what the legs look like after the skin of 1/8" wood and the bottom show the leg after the skin and the veneer.

Walnut Rails

The veneer arrived the other day and I was pretty pleased with the grain. The rails came out super nice. 

Anniversary Progress

 Was in the shop late last night and made some headway on the restoration.

Put the newly powder coated rail plates back in.  The marriage between satin black and high gloss black is like Scarlett Johansson in a bacon bikini, it just doesn't get any better.

The legs on this table were too far gone so new legs were in order.  If you have never seen inside an Anniversary leg heres your chance.

Eight Foot Anniversary Resto

Sold another Anniversary table.  Just started the restoration process.  The rails on this table were the laminate version as seen on the later tables.  The customer wanted walnut rails so the laminate was stripped and the rails were prepped for walnut veneer.  The glue they used to attach the laminate was truly unbelievable.  Took ruffly three hours to strip them down.

Pulled the rail plates and hardware and painted the underside of the rails a satin black.

Sandblasted all the rail plates and hardware and powder coated everything a mirror black.  Even know this wont ever been seen I feel it deserves a complete restoration.  If your going to take the time to do something, do it right.