Restoring a pipe stand

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I had some bench time last night. After removing most of the felt cloth I discovered the base was screwed on with 10 screws. That’s a lot of screws for a small box like this….
Anyway, I unscrewed all of them…

Once opened it was time to remove the white inlay. I was actually wrong yesterday stating that is was a type of Perspex. These white inlays are nothing else than white glass. I carefully removed it and was quite impressed by how they were originally installed to protect the glass from breaking.
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[BLESKOP]

Removing the inside...
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[BLESKOP]

Out of curiosity I started to sand it down beginning with 60 grit sanding paper.
Some before and after...
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[Bruck]

At first I thought it was ceramic tiles but once I carefully removed the one situated in the lid I realised it is actually a piece of acrylic Perspex sheet. –Poly (methyl methacrylate).

Did you check that with your mass spectometer?

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Once opened it was time to remove the white inlay. I was actually wrong yesterday stating that is was a type of Perspex. These white inlays are nothing else than white glass.

Just plain old silicon dioxide then?

[TCBSmokes]

I felt sorry for this pipe stand when I saw it online and with some access pipes I thought this could be restored to almost new providing a good stowage place for some of my pipes.
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Great acquisition! That stand has nice lines and "good bones". Any pics of the completed restoration?