Restoring Old Kitchen Scales

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Restoring old kitchen scales. You can always add more. I kept the old scales as a template for the new ones i would make. However if you have modern digital scales you may not want an old pair of scales taking up valuable kitchen space. My solution was to repurpose them as a fruit bowl in the dining room.

Etekcity digital kitchen weighing scales premium stainless steel cooking scales stylish ultra slim design food scales lcd display compact storage easy clean silver 4 7 out of 5 stars 2 542 9 99 9. It was a little bit expens. Leave the face like it is. Using a scraper i removed much of the surface grime and then resorted to fairly coarse sandpaper to remove more ingrained stains.

Last time i scrolled through ebays antique section this nice little antique kitchen scale caught my attention at the first sight. I didn t go to town on the handle part as it was going to. Apr 27 2020 author. Restoring an old pair of scales is not as hard as it may sound.

Due to restoring the scales i also know that at some point the scales have been painted to the vintage cream colour you see in the photographs underneath that in hard to reach areas i have also found an old wartime green colour which i expect may have been the original colour used on the scales i haven t decided what colour i will restore them too once finished. Welcome to upstaged vintage these fabulous deep bottle green vintage kitchen scales have 2 traditional brass scale pans and a set of of 6 imperial brass bell weights. Restoring grandad s old kitchen knife.