Cutting a dozen holes into my customer's dining table

This week in the shop Trena repairs and refinishes an oak dining table top.
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[@garyrobinson8991]

The Wood Magician strikes again ! Terrific transformation, very professional result ! 🎉

[@509brown]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing, love your explanations and candor!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thank you so much!

[@jennao10]

Your home place is soo pretty!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thank you!! 😊

[@pamsheets632]

You live in a gorgeous place. The scenery is absolutely amazing beautiful! The table turned out perfect to! 😊❤

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thank you so much!

[@criggins1]

I am consistently impressed by your painstaking hand-work in simulating the grain!

[@josephblazek6480]

...and like magic those spots vanish. You are sooo good. You do your dad proud!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thank you so much!

[@walterplummer3808]

Nice job! Please show some more photos of the shop build. Thanks

[@josephblazek6480]

Hey Trena- can you use a Dremel with rasp bits to move out the burns? That oak is very dence an you risk cutting yourself or slicing past the repair. Be careful.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Yes but I have a good hand in the slide. Thanks!

[@pattylevasseur4041]

that is a transformation to say the least.... i live in maine on a fixed income... and retired. so as i do agree with you about minwax being a poor quality product... i do use it in my re furbishing of furnitures. it works for me... i dont have the space/ equipt you do. i working literally in my dining room, so i do what i can...i use minwax , then sand with a dry/wet sandppr. then i use poly for a top coat... 3/4 coats with sanding betwn coats. then i use car wax and buff the hell out of it. my results are very pleasing considering what i have to work with. and yes i clean house every wk!!!!! it can be overwelming at times.. but i do with what i have to work with... i live in town on .14 acers. and 15 ft betwn houses. so no room for even building a shed for a work space outside the house . so i envy anyone who can have the space to have a work shop on any kind... great job as always trena!!!!! keep them coming... you are very fortunate to have such a gorgeous home.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Oh Thankyou. I am so fortunate! It’s such a pleasure to have space. And it’s such a joy to hear people still working with what they have. I have been there in smaller shops with no equipment. If you have skill you’ll make it work. Cheers to you!

[@Landrew0]

There's nothing I'd rather do on a Sunday, than to watch you lovingly restore a piece of furniture.

[@bethcrane5780]

Hey Trena, great job! Such a relief to see those terrible burns disappeared. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

My pleasure!!

[@glennspreeman1634]

True artistry!!

[@marcosguidi8422]

What a view!!!

[@johnhamilton1098]

Love the music... very peaceful to watch your process!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thank you so much!

[@davidcarroll4411]

Love the color and grain. All the furniture and wood work in my house is medium oak.

[@GlendaMoore]

Beautiful job! It's a real pleasure to watch you.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thank you very much!

[@SPMech1]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Wordsnwood]

I usually use waterbased Poly, not lacquer -- can WB poly go over those Mohawk repair sticks + tint spray?

[@johnhamilton1098]

Great Intro!

[@JamesPeck-lg2ho]

Excellent job as always SISTER.

[@chuckyc6912]

Beautiful spot. What a beautiful job

[@gf8958-p7p]

Absolutely beautiful! When I saw the piece in its original condition, it reminded me of my mother’s table, and I could smell it. Your work made it so pretty I could understand why people buy oak tables! Thanks for the video!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Wonderful!

[@katherinem7835]

It does look very good. That looks just like my kitchen table. I have a solid oak table. When I was shopping for a table I wanted solid oak. Every furniture store I went to save 1 told me they don't make solid wood furniture anymore.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Oh that’s just not true

[@MissLady-pq4hc]

Trena, my first through was of dr. Pimple popper removing a cyst . ❤️

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

😂😂

[@michaelstoliker971]

I don't think that they leave the cigarettes on the table. I think they leave the butts in an ashtray and walk out of the room while the lit cig flips on the table unsupervised. As an ex-smoker, I've had similar accidents, but they never learned apparently.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

lol well it’s ok

[@captainjohn787]

Somebody needs to carve a witch on a broomstick into that great pumpkin in the intro . . . Nice work on the table, Trena.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Great idea!!

[@ikerstges]

seeing you cut with that utilityknife makes me wonder if you ever used gouges? I think that is a job that invented the gouge in the first place! 😉

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Ah yes. I sold all my chisels with my last lathe. I’ll have to get more when we set up in the new space

[@christyparr1563]

I highly doubt that they set the cigarette on the table, but I know that cigarettes if left in an ashtray can fall off and burn wherever they land. My mom and dad used to smoke at the table and had burn holes where the cigarette burned before they realized it wasn’t in the ashtray and picked it up again.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Ya that’s probably what happened

[@dougrobins8291]

As I sit here watching you work on the same kind of oak table that I have, I am thinking that I need to refinish my table!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

😁💪

[@deanmei]

It will be relatively safe if you use a wood carving knife instead of a blade to cut cigarette burn marks on the table. 😍

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

That works too😉

[@sadiemc_63]

Trena you are a Magician!!!

[@flaviofranco8204]

Here in Brasil Trena = tape measure. Very appropriate in this context 😊

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

😂😂that’s funny

[@redzed40]

Another great job..hope you was wearing ppe spraying Trena 🧐

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Yep

[@jantienavisser2556]

Beautiful!!!❤💯👌👌👌

[@joesmith1926]

Nice job again! 😎

[@tony-ps4qw]

Nice work as usual- I like the old growth oak grain!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Me too

[@johnwilliams1091]

Fall is in the air.

[@xoxo2008oxox]

How do have so many views and yet not even over 100K subs? People, sub to her videos! And like them! Personally, I'm a fan of white oak furniture but how you made that grain show like the original finish...amazing work Trena!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thankyou!

[@jamescole1786]

9/29/24...ahh yes..another beautiful transformation✅️ ..a large solid oak dining table with oval ends, gear travel slide traks for expansion inserts....but kinda heavy duty layer of grime & multiple > deep black cigarette burns

[@TempusSolum]

Hello Trenna. I sure love me some oak. :) Did you also refinish the leaves? I can't see how the original finish would match your finished table.

[@medickaisu]

Its magic! If I didn't see it I wouldn't believe it. PS - I pay for KZbin premium and your ads are the only ones I sit through.

[@mirandamom1346]

I’d have gotten this all wrong. I’d have sanded lots more, tried oxalic acid, failed, and gotten out the paint. I’m so glad it ended up in your hands!

[@alanyoder7629]

Better than new! Fantastic job!❤❤

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

I'm glad you like it

[@billm4560]

Beautiful place you have there Trena! I was hoping to see the horses! 😊 Nice garden too! I built a table just like that and I was thinking if there was any kind of filler like you used! Now I know! 😊 I used halcyon for the top coat! Thank you for sharing your work! Cheers

[@cobberpete1]

Not that I have seen that many leaf tables, but this one is the first with metal gears and racking to extend. Yes pretty Grotty. That is one big bucket of grain filler. I suppose if you are doing a lot then you need 'A lot'. I use Timber mate putty , and add water until it is like sloppy custard. 😎.

[@ansis86]

It was very useful to see you sorting out those burns. I have a MCM teak table that was damaged by a leaking AA battery and ended up with a shallow battery-shaped scoop etched into the veneer. It’s an easy refinish otherwise but that scoop has had me stumped and unwilling to even start the refinishing process!

[@juliakathryn2582]

Can you do this with veneer? I have a Drexel bedside table and the damage done to the poor thing is beyond belief. I'm sure the top has cigarette burns. I haven't started repairing it yet and it's a set of bedside tables. Bonus! Or should I replace the areas with veneer?

[@bruce2sail]

Trena, nice job in the end. Thanks for doing such a painstaking job! You totally threw me when you finished the table with Golden Oak (a fave), then in the next scene you had hit the table with a “very, very thin black stain”. I said to myself, ohmygosh Trena’s gone round the bend! But once you finished it up with the lacquer and topcoat color, it was very sunny and beautiful. Alls well that ends well.

[@hjemison]

It’s like cancer surgery. You have to be careful you get all of it. I see your garden has recovered considerably since you last showed it to us. So you’re not a fan of minwax? How did I sense that?😏😂😂. Another good job!

[@williamrogers2030]

Fantastic job! Do you know whether or not I can get the stripper you use and Goudy’s stain in Florida?

[@jeffreydye181]

Very nice job. I built my cabinets in my home and sprayed them with lacquer and just love to tinker with finishes with lacquer.

[@jillbork2683]

Thanks for sharing, I especially liked your technique for the repairs

[@josephkerley363]

I cringed when you carved out the burns. I get it though. Would it have been beneficial to have mixed oak sanding dust with the filler?

[@TheShizNat]

The filled spots just disappeared- amazing!!!🙌🏼

[@katherinef4291]

Do any of your customers watch the transformation? I loved that shop dog came to work on time lol

[@gwenkelly1]

fantastic job sweetheart, your dog is beautiful, what is her/ his name. you really are very good at what you do. bless you.

[@Grumpyoldman037]

That was a great transformation. Love your final color. But I must say, those gray metal legs look awful!

[@Good_Bloke-o6v]

G'day from Australia beautiful, how are you,

[@MrLHabets]

Cigarette burns are nasty. About 30 years ago I worked at the security center of our Dutch Telephone Company. Smoking was allowed in office back then. I forgot my cigarette on the astray and went for lunch. A collegue discovered that my cigarette fell of the astray onto paperwork. I had luck, the cigarette extinguished and the papers didn't ignite. I was very glad. It could be realy bad...

[@gdp3rd]

That table turned out beautifully -- reminds me of the "golden oak" furniture from the late 1970s and 1980s that was all the rage when we first got married. We don't have much any more, as our tastes gravitated towards maple, cherry, and walnut, but seeing it always brings back fond memories.

[@williamrogers2030]

Have the work crews started your new shop yet? Aren’t you having it built on your home property? Keep up the good work!

[@CCGirl-rl3lg]

As usual a great restoration. I have an oak table that I want to fix up, and to be honest the more I watch the more confused I am. I think I will just clean it, glue up a few places, and use something like Restore a Finish, then wax it. And maybe check the slides. I post about owning a hardware store, and I sell Minwax stain. I think it's fine for most people, but for those of you who delve deep into restoration, I can't find a supplier for that stuff. My suppliers don't sell toners, etc. It's a bit of a niche business that a regular hardware store can't supply as we don't have the demand. I can bring in Old Masters, but I have never had a request for any other stain - well maybe a few, but few and far between. And I love the nature and the garden. I am a bit overwhelmed with work and my garden has been less than I want, but I have given it no attention. I think next year I will just grow flowers. I need to reduce the demands that I put on my time. Retail hardware is good, but I feel drained after the last few years.

[@donwilliams3626]

Those cigarette burns were a real test of talent. I might have guessed veneer patches would cover them. Your repairs definitely concealed the damage much better. Thanks for sharing your tricks of the trade.

[@davecates9139]

Even as damaged as it was, I knew it would be beautiful when you were done with it 🙂

[@terryosz8458]

You have a very beautiful place. That was amazing the transformation of that table was great I just learned a new trick to try thanks for sharing stay safe and God Bless

[@loisstump5990]

Where were the legs? Top looks great!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

They never brought them

[@nancywhitehead6397]

Where is the base Trena? It can not be in any worse shape than the top was so why not repair it also?? Like you I am not a huge fan of Golden Oak or Oak in general but you did a beautiful job of toing down the color as usual You are so good with your finishes and the colors of stain But that said It goes along with all the rest of the restoration work you do.. Beautiful job Trena...Bravo.. Must have been stored in a barn or old garage..It looked so weathered in places..

[@michaelblayney9873]

It’s always a great day when the beautiful shop dog makes an appearance! ❤

[@sumandsubstance]

The Goudy wood filler product worked magic on this oak table. The wood color came out much brighter after the table top dried. Leave it to Trena to pull a new twist from her bag of tricks!

[@colinowenuk]

Always enjoy your vids.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Glad to hear it

[@michaellindsey1543]

Great job! Sadly it will stink again 5 minutes after getting home and new burns shortly there after unless the smoker has passed and that's why they had the table redone.

[@tracyalbert6056]

Trena your work is amazing as always. Love to see the transformations. Your land looks wonderful. Hope you get your new shop soon so you can spread out with more room.

[@patriciasiefert7140]

Beautiful oak table! Excellent work!

[@Herb-c9m]

What a great transformation! Someone is going to be very happy with the result 😎

[@bigjarn]

nice introit!

[@jeanine6492]

Looks great! Love the tip about the cigarette burns.

[@markbernier8434]

Just a thought, if there is a large area to dry bring out the leaf blower. Much faster than an air line.

[@sid515able]

I completely agree that minwax is not a good product. Well done

[@jill-ti7oe]

👍

[@dorothydishman4664]

Great transformation & save for the oak table. Hope it's new life is easier!❤

[@RDSWOODWORKING]

Damn your good at blending the colors in well done❤

[@jayjudd6518]

Great job as always. Congratulations

[@schwabrichard9829]

You turned a work bench into a dinning table again!

[@texanasimmons1761]

Great repair and refinish! Thanks!

[@nr3rful]

Woooh what a transformation 😮

[@martinmoss317]

That grain filler did a great job!

[@davidhsloan8732]

wow nothing like seeing the wood grain nice

[@jimwiskus8862]

Wow, that leaves me breathless! Your work is beyond reproach. I may have said it before, but you are Canada’s Julian Baumgartner. ❤😊

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thanks again!

[@elenasimon1270]

I'm on my laptop. The color keeps changing. Gray to brown. Brown to gray. Maybe it's me.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Ya the color was weird in this one

[@raymitchell9736]

Do you know what that title did for your video to me? For the first few minutes I thought you were going to cut dozens of drainage holes to allow the grease and crud to drain out. LOL... Nah, I'm just kidding, but seriously I think the grease was the protective finish. And those cigarette burns were insane. You know I've done electronic projects with a old soldering iron that didn't have a stand or base and I've left burns similar to that, I have a professional equipment now, so that doesn't happen, but I wonder if that's what they could have been? And MinWax is very "MIN"imum... now I know... Well, at any rate, you did a beautiful job of repairing and fixing that table... and as always, thank you for being a great teacher of the craft.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thankyou!

[@steve_weinrich]

Very nicely done by the bestest best!

[@RonaldBeyer-z3p]

Trena do you have magical hands Thank you this is really good advice Sometimes I still struggling with repair of furniture But thank you Trena Or can I say miss wood magic

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thankyou!

[@jomercer21113]

Krud Kutter is great--I use it all the time for antique sewing machine and cabinet restration. The fashion in the late 19th/early 20th century was to use a dark grain filler on oak to emphasize the grain patterns--especially effective on quarter-sawn oak. I agree that Minwax stains have but a pinch of pigment in a can. I love grain painting areas of lost veneer and reproduced ornamental trim. Great save of a lovely piece! I'd like to see it on its legs, too.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thankyou!

[@lolaottinger3038]

I love your beautiful garden! My precious daughter in law dreams of having a garden like that! I sure hope her dream comes true one day. Your property just seems so peaceful. A place to not only restore furniture, but to restore one’s soul. When my son was just a kid, I’d give him a gummy bear vitamin every morning, when we moved, the dining table got flipped and there was at least 70 gummy bear vitamins in the tracks of our table. Ummmm.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Oh my! Lol. Thats so funny! Awe I always feel so blessed to be here too. I hope she gets her dream! 🥰🥰🥰

[@richardphelan8414]

What Great pictures of the area around your home and Garden ,I'll bet a lot of card games was played on that table, always educational ,and entertaining watching you work your Magic on these neglected pieces ,Thank you for sharing

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

I bet too

[@bettyunger8417]

Nice job! Enjoyed your video, with the fall inspiration!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thanks so much!

[@ritahodges254]

I actually prefer the minwax gel stain, because I Don'. It gives you time to decide what color you want. How much you want in there? Cause the longer you leave it in there, the darker it gets, and I used the same stain on multiple pieces, and it all looks different because the wood is different.

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

🤷🏼‍♀️well I’m glad someone likes it. Lol

[@djparn007]

Thank you, Trena. 👍👍

[@KarlBunker]

I hadn't heard of dealing with cigarette burns that way before, and I was surprised at how deep the charred wood went. Excellent fix!

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

Thanks!

[@26beegee]

Amazing the huge variety of problems you have to solve in refinishing. Obviously you were a good student learning from your dad and now you have your own several years of experience to draw on to revive some very sad looking pieces. Such a pleasure to watch you work your magic! I feel like you are one of my girls. 🥰

[@johnsfurniturerepair]

🥰🥰🥰Thankyou!