Sligh desk drawers stuck

Hi there!
I just recently bought an old sligh desk and after much difficulty was able to move it into my bedroom.

1–Does anyone know the model or age of this desk?

2–Thedesk has 3 drawers. The center drawer has a lock - anyone know how to get a key? I’d love to lock it.

3–Oddly, the center drawer opens normally. However, the drawer on either side only open a potion of the way - and both: appear to stop in the same spot. Anyone know how to fix that???

4–the leather top is badly worn. Is there a way to refinish it? It seems to have a clear lacquer over the top.

 

Congratulations. Nice desk. I have a Sligh Bedroom set from the 1920's and used this site to find it's age by the label on the side of one of the drawers Sligh Furniture Co. | Furniture City History.

 

There's one for sale on Etsy that appears to be the same desk and they list it as: "Sligh Chippendale Style Mahogany Leather Top Desk" and say it's from the 2000's. As for the leather, you could try re-dyeing it. I've used Fiebings dye on a couple of projects recently and had good success. If the leather has a clear coat finish, you might need to deglaze it before dyeing. You can use Fiebings deglazer or I've read that rubbing alcohol and denatured alcohol also work, and are much cheaper. As for the drawers, it sounds like they have some sort of stop mechanism. Try shining a flashlight down the sides to see what is stopping them.

 

Very nice research. She needs to remove the lock (if she can) and take it to a locksmith to rekey it. To get at the screws there are offset screwdrivers like this available at hardware stores.

 

If it has metal slides like this one on Etsy, it probably has those plastic tabs that you pinch to allow the drawer to slide all the way out

 

Hope it has gold bars stuck in there !

 

yes!! I think this is the same as this desk has the same model number stamped in the bottom!!! I tried searching for it but didn’t find much. The stamp says lot 1972 but I don’t know if the other seller is correct in assuming that was the year (?)

 

Hahaha me too!!!

 

Thanks, I can try. I took a picture of the drawer that opens as I expect they are the same.

Ok, does this help?!?

 

So to follow up...I did eventually get these drawers opens. Turns out there is a horizontal divider that got dislodged on both sides. It was higher than the lip of the desk so stopped the drawer at that point. Popped it in the groove with a screwdriver and fixed!!!! Thanks everyone!!!