Martha Washington Sewing Table

Yesterday I started a project of stripping this old Martha Washington sewing table I found at Scott’s Antique Market. I coated it with CitriStrip and after about 2 hours removed it with a combination of scraping and wiping with an old, damp towel. It was really messy, but as you can see the results are pretty good.

There are a couple of sweat rings which will definitely need some sanding—hopefully these will come out. The legs came out pretty good, but there are a few crevises that I’m having a hard time with. Once I’ve given it a light sanding, I intend to follow this with a rub with some linseed oil and a 4X steel wool, a trick told to me by my brother-in-law.