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ADMIRED MENTOR
I recently purchased an old, very neglected drinks cabinet with money I earned working part-time for a craft-beer company while studying medicine full-time. I have never restored furniture, but my dad has been restoring and building everything from floors, cupboards, cars and a beautiful bookshelf for all my medical textbooks.
His hands are like sandpaper and his garage his refuge. Unfortunately, he has terminal cancer and has about a year or two left, which breaks my heart, but I’m going to use my run-down cabinet as a way to learn from him and carry his handyman legacy forward.
He has already shown me how to heat and strip the varnish off the
