On 15/05/2021 03:00, Rod Speed wrote:
wrote in message
spoke to someone this week who
has started using a sand blasting rig to prepare old furniture for
refinishing, apparently it works well.

Dunno. Someone I know got that done with a very decent dining
room table. It ended up nothing like the job done properly.

It's an established way of doing huge damage to the appearence of
internal exposed timber beams.