Antique Dining Room Furniture

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I read another post about painting wooden cabinets, so I get the overall method….sand so the paint can adhere, prime, and paint.

My questions are: 1) do I just use a primer that you would use on your interior walls? 2) do I use interior paint or is there a special wood paint? 3) for a dining room table, should I go with gloss, semi-gloss, or something else? 4) what can I do to make it look more antique? I want it to look like an old farmhouse table.
I think it will look pretty. Here’s my inspiration:
http://www.potterybarn.com/products/p9181/index.cfm?pkey=cfurdintbl

You can use any good interior trim paint you wish. I think you are asking about "distressing" the table to make it look old and worn. There are dozens of methods to accomplish this, everything from scubble glazes to handfuls of mud and rocks. Sorry to be so vague here . . . If you have a specific look in mind, perhaps you can post (or email) a pic or link, and I will be happy to give you step by steps.

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Just looked at the pottery barn pic, easy easy easy to mimic that. First, sand prime and paint the table using FLAT paint in the color of you choice. The using a short lengh of #4 galvanized chain fail the piece as much as you wish, the failing will deposit small amounts of zinc at the whack spots, then protect those deposits with 2 light coats of antique satin poly. Sanding as hard or a light as you wish, harder sanding will break open (expose) more wood at "wear spots" such as edges and highlights of turnings/carvings.

You might remember that when I redid the table/chairs/side table, I also painted 2 large wood frames black. They were given to me by my dad and had no hardware or glass, which meant that until I could get some glass cut, …
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We have an Krug Bros dining table circa 1930. The table has a leaf, but we aren’t able to open up the table top i.e. separate the two halves. Something is stuck. I’ve tried using WD-40 on the metal rod that seems to be joining both pieces of the table top, but that hasn’t done it. There are also two wood "joiners" or sliders, it looks as though when the two halves of the table separate that this tongue and groove siding has something to do with it.

Does anybody know what might cause an extension table to stick like this? What should I look for? Help, please!

Have you totally turned the table over, or are you just looking at it by crawling under it? Tip the table complety over and check very closley to see if anyone, over time, nailed a small nail or two into an area that may not be very visible. That was common years ago so that kids wouldn’t accidently pull them apart at dinner time. From what you’ve said it sounds like either there is a small nail or two or something was jammed into place so that the table did’nt accidently become pulled apart at the wrong moment. Good Luck!