Sweet River Studios

After painting the wrought iron, I degreased the nuts and bolts and painted them black. Just don't paint the threads on the screws, just the parts that will show so that everything matches. Assembly Now that everything is done (at least to my ability), it was time to reassemble the base and top. Remember, I took the top apart last year and the base apart in April and even though I took pictures I was pretty sure I wasn't going to remember how this went back together. Thankfully, my husband came to the rescue! I won't lie. He did it all by looking at a picture of one off of the internet. Bless him! First, he started by putting the legs and pedal out on the floor in the right positions then he just kept adding on to that.  We did discover later (of course) that we should not have put these two items together first. This is the leg base and the table top. We should've put the curved drawer on the table top first, then the base. The holes for the curved drawer on closest to

 After using the Restore A Finish on the wood, it was time to tackle the iron parts of the treadle. The black wrought iron was kinda tricky. Given that I don't have a way to sand blast all the bits to remove all the clear coat and black paint, I had to figure out what I could do.  The iron parts were in pretty good shape but a good scrub with soap and water and a wire brush was needed. As I was cleaning the parts, I realized there was a bit of rust on the wheels and on the underside of the pedal and a few other places. I also realized that during this scrub the pitman rod on my machine was actually wood and not iron. It was completely black and I had no idea. So when it started to turn a rusty brown color I thought rust until it looked more brown and I realized it was wood.  So I had to take the entire thing a part, which I was trying to avoid, but it was necessary. I cleaned up the wood rod and used the Howard products on it to match the cabinet.  I also discovered that there was