Canvas And Paint Stripped Trunk

I finally got most of the paint and canvas stripped from the trunk. I didn't post a Sunday update this week because there was nothing to update. For the most part nothing got done on the trunk till this morning. I woke up this morning more than a little upset that a whole week had passed and there was no progress to report in the blog. That being my motivation, I decided to spend most of my afternoon stripping trunk canvas.

It's not that I'm being lazy here, but with the holidays approaching things have been a bit hectic. My family has a small retail business, so the holidays are always hectic for everyone. I try to help out with the family business and this sometimes gets in the way of my personal life. I'll do my best over the next few weeks to fit in some trunk restoration time and post the results here. Please be patient.

With that said, I spent about 4 hours stripping paint and canvas on the trunk this afternoon. I left two of the side panels because I'm going to be removing the handles in the next couple days. I figure once the handles are off it will be easier to strip the canvas on the sides. I also left two small panels on the back because I'm not sure if I'm going to paint the hinges on the back of the trunk lid. If I do paint the hinges I think it might be a good idea to leave the canvas on there to protect the wood, but then I might chip the fresh paint when I remove the canvas, so I'm not sure about that right now.

Anyway, here are the pictures of the trunk with most of the canvas stripped off. The scraper put a few small gouges in the trunk wood and I didn't want to gouge the wood anymore so I thought I would try stripping the remainder of the canvas with a medium course sandpaper and then go over it again with a fine sandpaper. The few small gouges should be easy enough to sand out. 

 

Most of the canvas and paint stripped from the trunk. I will go over this with a medium course sandpaper and then a fine course sandpaper. I'll post the results and instructions for that when I start that process.

I left the canvas where the hinges are. I'm not sure whether I'm going to paint the hinges first and remove the paint later or remove the paint and canvas and then paint the hinges. I'll decide on this shortly.

I received the trunk with this broken handle. I didn't remove the canvas from this panel because I felt it would be easier to do once the handles are removed. The other side is the same way.

I'm going to start shopping around for some trunk parts. If I can't find handles I like, I'm going to make them myself from some good strong leather.

Project timd for this post : 4 hours 15 minutes
Total time spent on project so far : 16 hours 15 minutes
Total project cost so far : $12.64 USD