Corner Kitchen Set

This was my first true customer's order for Poirier's! It was not a family member or a friend of a friend!! I have done work for customers at my day job but it seems to be way different when it's all me and under my own name!! 

Here is the finished product. 

This is how it looked before. Dark and a ton of scratches. 

You can see the scratches here. They were really bad on the table top.

I took the whole set apart. It was easy to do being it was one of those kit sets. It made it a lot easier to sand.

I wiped it down with mineral spirits first.

Then sanded it all with 120 grit sandpaper on a orbital sander. Then  I used 220 on the orbital sander. After I hand sanded with 220.

Just look at all the marks.

For all the sanding I have done over all the years, I have found the Festool sander to be the best. For the job it does and most of all the way my wrist feels after doing hours of sanding. At my day job that I work 40 hour, I sand most of the time then come home to my business and do more sanding. So when I say sanding for hours I mean like 5 to 8 hours a day :/  They don't call me Suzie The Sander for nothing lol.

I did a section at a time.

My space isn't to big so doing a section at a time was a must.

Ready for staining now! The owner wanted Golden Oak. A lot lighter then it was.

Here are the pieces drying.

Next parts being done.

So many parts!!!!

Sanding the routered part was not the high light of my day. The end grain was a pain to get the dark stain out of. 

The table and bench are done. This was the point I finally felt like I was getting somewhere. 

And done!! Now let's hope and pray they like it!!