On Mar 14, 7:29 pm, (J T) wrote:
Tue, Mar 13, 2007, 6:46am (EDT-3) (Abe) doth
proclaim:
I'm refinishing a solid cedar chest that is probably 90 years old. I've
stripped the original finish and have sanded the entire thing a couple
times. snip

Well, I guess you finished any collector value it might have had.

I'd get a scrap piece of cedar and test on it. Well, not actually,
I doubt I'd want to stain cedar.

JOAT
It was too early in the morning for it to be early in the morning. That
was the only thing that he currently knew for sure.
- Clodpool

That's not really all that helpful.

It wasn't worth much beforehand. It's a nice chest, but the old
finish was black. I tried to just clean and rejuvenate, but it was
too far gone.