The Flipping Idiot vs a Dirty 1930s Heywood Wakefield Dresser - The Finale!

This is the final video in a series about Refinishing a 1930s era Heywood Wakefield, Dresser. 
People who have watched my videos are going to be surprised that I’m not babbling all the way through it but I got a day of weather that was a little bit cooler than I wanted but pretty close to perfect minus some extra wind.
I started to gather my things to document it and to set up for the actual finishing part of it and I just ran with the idea that it should be the work so somebody that’s thinking about working on a Heywood Wakefield or refinishing furniture in general and hasn’t done it before can get an idea for the planning, the time it takes, and see how there is a bit of a rhythm to getting through the work itself.
Minor details are the cart that I used was just a sheet of plywood about 2’ x 3 1/2’ on large casters which is necessary because I roll my furniture out the front door from a space by the stairs and along my alley into the driveway when the weather’s cooperating. 
I had some old seal coat which is wax free shellac that has a slightly warm tone to it and so that is the one that is in the glass container with the cap. I really like that container and I got it from IKEA.
The glass bowl makes me a little nervous about traveling around with it because of breakage issues but I love the way that the cap tightens down so it’s airtight.
The other shellac is the big box shellac, which is a clear or very light blonde shellac with a little bit of wax added. I checked with a local refinishing expert and he said that he has never had a problem putting another finish onto that shellac even though it has wax.
If you’re looking for a wax free shellac, the Sealcoat product is the one that will soak into the wood and help even out your finishing.projects. 
The little pad I had made from some other finishing project where I didn’t need it, so I left it in a takeout container.
I went to the fabric store nearby and picked up some hundred percent cotton filler or batting material and then I picked up 100% cotton cloth from a bolt they had in their cotton section. Total cost for everything was about five dollars.
And what I did with the dresser is essentially a French Polish.  There’s a pretty terrific video about making what’s called a fad or cotton wiping pad and how to apply the shellac that is going to answer 99% of the questions out there about what I was doing with a video. You can watch today if you wish.
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[@Angela-mw5ho]

Wow, fabulous job!!

[@theflippingidiot7705]

Thanks!

[@cleo1034]

Beautiful! Great save.

[@theflippingidiot7705]

Thank you!

[@larrynelson3329]

Great job. These can be tricky to restore.

[@theflippingidiot7705]

I probably wouldn’t of done it except it. I was curious to see what the lumber would look like because the dresser is about 100 years old almost and the tree the lumber came from for the dresser was probably a couple hundred years old so the wood in that dresser is 400 or 500 years old.