Originally Posted by deplaylady
Originally Posted by Charlee
Originally Posted by deplaylady
I finished cleaning my 15-30. I put a repro hand crank on it also and painted out the Chinese letters - fortunately mine moves really smoothly and quietly. I had bought the machine for $20 and it was missing the slide plate - and the box. I bought a wood box on eBay that was covered with ugly wallpaper.I removed the wallpaper thinking I would paint it but the joints didn't look very good. So I put red oak veneer on it and stained it. Here is the finished product:
REALLY pretty!! Was the veneer very expensive?
Not really - the veneer cost $10 total. It was in iron-on pre-glued rolls.
:) I watched a program once where the guy took iron on veneer and cut shapes to make an inlaid pattern....I've always wanted to do that!