I found 2 of them last weekend at a yard sale for $20 FOR THE PAIR! The 50ish daughter was selling them, and the mother said "those were my chairs" as I was carrying them away. " I used to think those were pretty classy back in the day" she stated. " THEY STILL ARE" I replied. The finish is pretty beat up on 1, and the other could use a little help. Should I use stripper, or sand the old finish? I plan to use Watco danish oil, followed by Watco sealer wax. Is this a good plan? The cushion covers appear to be original, and cleaned up well. The Fagas Straps are cracking, so I will need 12 of those also. Is $10 each a fair price, and who makes the best? Thanks, Doug
FAGAS straps
Hi there
good buy and ok price.
For the rubber straps look at the number printed on one end BEFORE YOU THROW THEM AWAY.
Then contact FAGAS.com and order the new straps using the same number as your length required.
http://www.fagas.com
i refinished one of these chairs
Is this the one you have?
I got mine for $25 at auction. The finish was kinda funky (plus the walnut was greenish, which I hated) so I stripped it. The back spindles had a different clear finish than the rest of the chair and it was much harder to remove. Might have been polyurethane.
Anyway, I ended up ebonizing the chair with permanent India ink. I love the way it turned out. It was very easy to do once the finish was off. I just brushed it on with a small foam brush---two coats over most of it and I think a third coat in some areas.
Some of the color rubbed off after it was dry so I let it sit a few weeks to get really bone dry. Then I put a light coat of paste wax on it. It has a soft black glow, very even, no brush marks at all, and the grain shows through.
I covered new foam cushions in Maharam Pebble wool.
The webbing on mine was gone and someone had tacked jute webbing to the seat frame. Friends who deal in furniture from this era advised me to skip the conventional rubbing webbing with metal clips because the clips, they said, tend to pop out of the grooves when someone sits in the chair. I ended up stapling elastic webbing (less expensive but just as good as the rubber-coated linen stuff) to the seat frame. It's not beautiful but it works. The frame was already damaged from the tacks so I didn't fret too much about my inauthentic fix.
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