Gold Crown V restore

[gazman100]

This GC originally came out of a pool hall which I removed and installed for a client.
I ended up purchasing the table as he was unable to sell it and he was about to move house.
It was is quite good condition over all.

So I started heating up the timber stain with a heat gun and scraping the stain off when this happened.
A chunk of so called timber just came off.
I've never had this happen before stripping off the stain so I gave up on that and just sanded off the stain.

Over all it was in good nick. Just needed some minor repairs throughout

So the first part of painting I do the underside of the leg supports.
In the past I've left these unpainted as you really don't see it anyway however, they look so much better painted and finished off rather then just leaving them in raw timber

This is in my living room as there's no room in the garage.
I've elevated everything and used some old GC feet to elevate the supports.

This is the first panel of the primer coats

Always use premium primers that way you won't have too many problems

 

[gazman100]

This GC origionally came out of a pool hall which I removed and installed for a client.
I ended up purchasing the table as he was unable to sell it and he was about to move house.
It was is quite good condition over all.
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So I started heating up the timber stain with a hear guy and scraping the stain off when this happened.
A chunk of so called timber just came off.
I've never had this happen before stripping off the stain so I gave up on that and just sanded off the stain.
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Over all it was in good nick. Just needed some minor repairs throughout
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So the first part of painting I do the underside of the leg supports.
In the past I've left these unpainted as you really don't see it anyway however, they look so much better painted and finished of then just leaving them in timber
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This is in my living room as there's no room in the garage.
I've elevated everything and used some old GC feet to elevate the supports.
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This is the first panel of the primer coats
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Always use premium primers that way you won't have too many problems
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This is the first of the finished coat.
I'll give it 4 coats in all. I don't have a spraying facility so I'm rolling everythink. If your work is clean you can get a really good finish just with a roller.

I'm using a Microfiber roller 4 ml nap

Paint wise i'm using the tried and tested Epoxy Enamel single stage.

The slate frame had some areas where the layers of timber were seperating
So I incerted some huge screws into those areas. Those 2 filled areas is where the screws got incerted then filled.

More of the frame was seperation so it gets screwed down then filled.

Slate frame gets 2 coats of black paint

 

[gazman100]

Filtering the paint with my filtering system.

Before attaching the strecher panel to the leg suports, I'll apply some bees wax the strecher panel where it meets the leg supports so that everything can be seperated without pulling the paint off.

That frame looks pretty sick in black

Mounting brackets get power coated in Silver vane with Stainless Steel bolts, washers, and nylon lock nuts.

High tech power coating spray booth.

 

[gazman100]

Using MDF as a slate frame is crap.
Sure it's nice and flat however it just falls apart. It's total crap.
So off it comes

The MDF has been epoxyed on.
Absolute nightmare to remove

What a load of crap.
This went on for hours

Then I decovered that if I use a belt sander I can just rip it off.

I'm using 19mm finished pine
You can see in the pic below how clean I was able to get that mdf off.

 

[gazman100]

I feel much better now with a nice slate timber backing.

Slate leveled and glued

The 1st of many test fitting.

But now we have a problem
The skirts don't line up.
When this table was installed at the clients place I could not work out why we couldn't get the skirts to line up.

Then I worked out that they incorrectly mounted the skirt mounting block
I ended up sanding down the block until everything lined up.
Go figure, this must have been a Friday afternoon table

Now it all lines up especially the bottom of the skirt which is what you see

Nut incerts installed for the corner brackets

Stainless steel bolts with an alloy bracket.
This is much better then the original screwed brackets

 

[gazman100]

While I'm here I block down all of the skirt corners

The underside ot the skirts get finished off.
I wasn't real happy with the finish of these so later on I redid them.

Skirts get the Brunswick logo's applied.
I get these reproduced at the local sign writers.

Removing the original rubbers.

The sub rails were being ripped apart while removing the rubbers.
I know I can repair it but I havn't had this happen before.
It's a pain in the arse.

 

[GoldCrown]

You are kick-ass. Looking forward to the finished product.

 

[gazman100]

Formica gets removed easily using a heat gun

Someone has left writing under the Formica.
I have no idea what it says.

Rails get completely stripped

I made up a template for the rail sights.
So when the Formica is installed I know exactly where the sights should be.

Formica getting cut using a table saw.

That ruler upaginst the fence is to stop the Formica from slipping under the fence.

I'm using 3M 90 to apply the Formica to the rails.
If I make a mistake I have to hit it with the heat gun again to remove it.

Dowel sticks are placed over the rails when the glue has gone off. This is so I can float the Formica on top and gradually place it in place on the rails

 

[gazman100]

The Formica floating on top of the dowels.
I've learnt to always over cut the Formica then simply trim the Formica to the rails.

The Formica gets trimmed off using 80 grit stuck to a piece of alloy.
That angle at the end of the alloy allows me to go get in nice and close.
I would have thought 80 grit was too aggressive but it works just fine.

To do the feather strip channel I could grab the router however there is something satisfying about just working your way back and forth
using a alloy strip and 80 grit paper.
You really can't go to far wrong with this method.

Rail sight template to mark exactly where to drill.
If you look at the first hole it has a line on the sub rail where I've maked where it should be

This is pretty much how tables look during mid build.

For the rail sights I'm using magnets.
They are nicely finished off in nickel and look great.
The only thing is that you have to de magnetise them.
You can see they are magnetised to a metal bar and i'll gently heat them up using a torch and they will just fall into the tray
demagnetised.

Drilling out the rail sights using a router bit

To glue the sights in i'm using a Polymer. Its like a silcone. I've drilled a 3mm hole at the bottom of the sight hole so if I
make a mistake with the install I can get the punch which is in the pic under the rail I can pop out the sight.
Sometimes the sights go in crooked or too far down so being able to pop them back out if I have to. Its a livesaver.

 

[gazman100]

I trimmed off the rubber using a flap disc. It did a really nice job on those rubbers.

3mm Shore A60

Simonis 860. Colour is Slate.
There were lots of gray colours out there but they were too light. I wanted a colour simular to Charcoal.

Buffing up the alloy trims

To remove the Anodizing I used drain cleaner.
Strips it right off

 

[gazman100]

Then one day I finished it.

 

[gazman100]

The GC V is a good looking table no doubt.
Some of the timber quality is suspect.
Thanks for viewing

 

[bbb]

beautiful work
wish you were in florida in the USA
i would definitely have you work on my GC 1
your guitars are nice too....

 

[garczar]

WOW!!. Helluva freakin job. One niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice GC.

 

[KREE8TIV]

Wow !! Effin amazing !!

 

[JonMaxWV]

Speechless!! What beautiful work.

 

[Glenee]

Some people have just some very rare talents, and you are blessed.
Very Impressive.

 

[Fatboy]

Wow

The 5’s have always been a bit out of alignment from my experience. This one looked all sorted out now. Sure looks better than it did and structurally it’s MUCH better. Amazing work! Just stunning

 

[FrankieD]

Outstanding! Stunning table.

 

[bignick31985]

Looks amazing! I can't believe it had MDF for the backer.