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Sample Sidebar Module

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Ageing and beauty combined

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We have been really lucky to have Kate Logan here visiting family and she was able to do an amazing job beautifying and ageing an old printers cabinet. What a fantastic talent. Thank you so much Kate.

Kate applying a woodgrain finish

 

Kate said, "Recently I went on a road trip back to my home town of Katikati, to antique a printers' type cabinet for the new Western Bay of Plenty Museum.

"During his younger years my father, John Logan, was a ship's printer who operated an old treadle platen printing press. He has been asked to operate a similar restored machine at the new museum that aims to show students and the general public how small printed material was produced over 100 years ago.

"The museum was unable to source a functional wooden type cabinet for their display, so dad asked me if I could transform this shabby, metal, 1960s-era type cabinet into a wooden-looking cabinet for them, which would have been in keeping with the age of the printing press.

"Using a 100 year-old type cabinet as a guide, which the museum was unable to use functionally as it had been modified – I intricately painted the metal cabinet, detailing the fine wood grain and paneling to make it look as much like the original as possible.

"I'm really pleased with the result, as was my father and the museum director. I look forward to seeing it being used in the operations of the print display."