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  1. Using "modern" lacquers - spray gun/folly?

    Started by Antipodes, 3rd August 2012 11:40 PM
    applied, booth, cans, coffee, control, corners, cutting, gratefully, gun or folly, ignorant, inevitably, job, kinda, lacquer, lacquers, layers, modern, nitro, passed, post-shellac, real, rubber, sanding, shellac, similar, spray, swedish, table, tips, world
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,783
    12th August 2012, 07:38 PM Go to last post
  2. Bubbling of veneer on tabletop

    Started by Antipodes, 6th August 2012 11:52 AM
    1920s, birch, brick, bubble, bubbles, bubbling, couple, days, dining, fish, flat, glue, handle, heavy, issues, pale, parallel, picture, putting, raised, re-doing, shellac, suggestions, swedish, syringing, tabletop, thinking, top, veneer, wood
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 1,643
    12th August 2012, 10:21 AM Go to last post
  3. Antique bed - how to approach repairs?

    Started by conomum, 4th August 2012 01:51 PM
    advice, antique, approach, bad, bed, carport, causing, coloured, complete, contact, current, damage, finish, hoping, job, location, novice, polyurethane, pva, quick, repairs, restore, restorer, splits, storage, taking, walnut, wonderful, wood, woodworker
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,455
    9th August 2012, 06:32 PM Go to last post
  4. Restoration ethics??

    Started by danangles, 8th July 2012 05:50 PM
    animal, authentic, belonged, chair, chairs, cheers, dan, detract, dining, endeavouring, ethics, glue, grandmother, hessian, horse, joints, materials, modern, moment, pieces, replace, resale, restoration, restore, setting, sold, springs, wifes
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 2,542
    8th August 2012, 06:39 PM Go to last post
  5. Smile Restoring a blackwood deco table - first-timer!

    Started by MissCassy, 3rd August 2012 02:08 PM
    • Replies: 6
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    8th August 2012, 02:14 PM Go to last post
  6. Snelling Saran chairs - lacquer?

    Started by Antipodes, 5th August 2012 01:13 AM
    1950s, 50s, australia, chairs, colour, cracks, crazy, design, dismantle, furniture, green, hairlines, ideas, intricate, lacquer, late, modernist, pictured, protecting, re-lacquer, recently, saran, set, slight, snelling, sort, webbing, wood, wouldve, wrong
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,649
    6th August 2012, 11:51 AM Go to last post
  7. Morris Chair Restoration

    Started by Rice701, 14th June 2012 12:13 PM
    4.will, alright, broken, chair, dowels, drilled, epoxy, falling, finish, finished, glue, grips, holes, joints, keeping, morris, original, pictures, previous, project, re-glue, recently, remained, removed, restoration, restored, slowly, sound, type, vice
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,539
    5th August 2012, 08:24 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 8,373
    4th August 2012, 12:47 AM Go to last post
  8. Removing parquet flooring - then relaying it

    Started by Antipodes, 29th July 2012 09:40 AM
    bedrooms, carpet, cement, change, coming, concrete, crowbar, days, discovered, flat, flattish, floor, flooring, folks, guessing, hour, laid, leave, litres, living, methylated, mind, parquet, reckon, relaying, removing, respectable, spirits, stuff, wall
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 5,035
    1st August 2012, 08:09 PM Go to last post
  9. Lacquering vellum or parchment

    Started by Antipodes, 26th July 2012 10:52 AM
    bit, clean, colour, difficult, fast, furniture, gentle, glue, hide, lacquer, lacquering, mitre, modern, paint, parchment, plastic, pristinely, restoration, skin, standard, stripper, table, thread, totally, two-part, type, vellum, warm, wash, water
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 1,889
    30th July 2012, 11:52 AM Go to last post
  10. Restoring antique mirrors

    Started by angryranga, 14th May 2012 01:50 PM
    antique, aquire, bevel, board, coating, detoriate, edged, guys, ideas, mirror, mirrors, mounted, oak, qestion, recently, redone, restoring, sideboard, silky, silver, started, stripped
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,327
    29th July 2012, 05:37 PM Go to last post
  11. Advice needed please

    Started by Peter57, 22nd July 2012 10:15 PM
    advice, appreciated, attempts, belonged, biggest, damage, daughter, difficult, epoxy, fix, glued, grandmothers, greatly, laws, mortices, needed, photos, rescue, roughly, separate, sewing, strengthen, table, tenons, wonky
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,561
    25th July 2012, 09:00 PM Go to last post
  12. Practice Project..small table

    Started by Lawry01, 11th July 2012 07:21 PM
    $10, approach, cheers, crack, cracking, decide, depending, folks, glue, hope, ideas, input, intended, laminagte, laminated, lawry, looked, practice, project, projectsmall, re-fix, refinishing, remove, rub, rubbing, shellac, surface, table, wax, worth
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,763
    23rd July 2012, 02:38 PM Go to last post
  13. L for leather

    Started by Woodwould, 24th May 2012 10:34 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    brushing, cloth, corner, dry, edges, embossing, flour, fold, furniture, glue, hand, hard, hide, hides, laid, laying, leather, leathers, lines, loose, paste, recess, sheep, smooth, straight, surface, thickness, tooling, water, writing
    • Replies: 19
    • Views: 4,732
    21st July 2012, 11:46 PM Go to last post
  14. help restoring a rocking chair

    Started by WoodWriggler, 15th July 2012 10:06 PM
    action, begin, caught, chair, clue, comment, direction, eagle, finish, holding, included, left, lookout, ole, picture, rail, restoring, rocking, sealed, seat, shield, slightly, stars, stripes, tenon, thanks2tsup, timber, top, underneath, usa
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,758
    20th July 2012, 05:02 PM Go to last post
  15. Advice on cleaning antique (shellac) walnut finish

    Started by MargieCeri, 9th July 2012 07:02 PM
    18th/19, advice, age, antique, beautiful, bought, century, chest, clean, cleaning, condition, dirt, drawers, finger, finish, folks, furniture, gday, lovely, marks, piece, seller, shellac, tells, walnut, wet
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,380
    17th July 2012, 02:13 PM Go to last post
  16. restoring outdoor furniture

    Started by ofr1, 6th July 2012 08:34 AM
    apply, appreciated, bear, chairs, clean, condition, finish, furniture, grain, grime, lot, oil, oiling, outdoor, products, restore, restoring, sand, sanded, solid, teak, timber, time, user, varied
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 2,166
    16th July 2012, 10:42 AM Go to last post
  17. Question ?blackwood extendable dining table.

    Started by aljenit, 8th July 2012 06:34 PM
    ?blackwood, blackwood, broken, busy, call, called, coming, dining, extendable, fashioned, flat, insert, job, mechanism, replacement, restore, restorers, rod, table, threaded
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,848
    15th July 2012, 05:59 PM Go to last post
  18. silky / english oak furniture restoration

    Started by nick_b00, 25th June 2008 08:38 PM
    cabinet, call, chair, chairs, comfortable, couple, desk, english, filing, final, furniture, oak, pic, pics, restoration, restored, sat, silky, swivel, wip
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 10,311
    6th July 2012, 11:19 PM Go to last post
  19. Repairing Danish Deluxe furniture

    Started by Arron, 5th July 2012 11:50 AM
    arron, broken, buy, chair, cheers, danish, deluxe, friend, furniture, ideas, leg, photo, rebuild, repairing, replace, resort, salvaged, thinking
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,512
    5th July 2012, 01:00 PM Go to last post
  20. Is this antique wood?

    Started by madge04, 25th June 2012 11:54 PM
    antique, appreciated, club, couple, definatley, hard, light, lounge, pics, scratch/chip, weight, wondered, wood
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,425
    4th July 2012, 02:52 AM Go to last post
  21. Would you apply finish to sheet cane ?

    Started by JDarvall, 7th March 2012 07:32 PM
    ago, apply, bit, bloke, body, cane, canes, chair, coat, feel, finish, garnet, leave, light, minds, pad, remembering, sheet, shellac, talked, thinking, toned, vaguely, wife
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 2,107
    3rd July 2012, 11:10 AM Go to last post
  22. nasties hiding under the dust

    Started by Chief012, 25th June 2012 09:36 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    100, appreciated, cam, cedar, cheers, clean, cleaning, cockroach, crud, dust, finish, hard, hiding, howards, hugely, ideas, left, loving, mark, nasties, odd, original, piece, process, restoration, restore, scrub, spoil, wardrobe, worried
    • Replies: 19
    • Views: 2,946
    3rd July 2012, 10:27 AM Go to last post
  23. To sand or not to sand?

    Started by ELM6061, 22nd June 2012 03:15 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    advise, appreciated, choice, d-valuing, damage/misshape, dickie, eddie, excuse, form, furniture, gday, greatly, item, leave, left, lines, minimise, professionally, pros, purchase-e, repair, ridge, risk, sand, sanding, shoulder, spot, stripper, type, volunteer
    • Replies: 24
    • Views: 3,869
    28th June 2012, 06:15 PM Go to last post
  24. Question Cleaning & Restoring Teak Veneer

    Started by claypot, 10th April 2012 10:13 AM
    advice, appreciated, chairs, clean, cleaning, closed, compared, condition, dark, dirty, extension, fairly, greatly, idea, leaves, marks, oiled, processes, products, restore, restoring, sideboards, spots, surface, table, teak, time, veneer, water
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 20,133
    19th June 2012, 11:00 AM Go to last post
  25. Advice needed - how to restore table and chairs

    Started by Dengue, 9th June 2012 11:34 AM
    advice, boards, chairs, combination, corners, crannies, curved, damage, finish, job, legs, lot, needed, nooks, outfit, paint, polyeurethane, remove, restore, rid, seats, shortened, solid, stain, table, timber, timbers, varnish, water, wearing
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,302
    10th June 2012, 06:14 PM Go to last post
  26. wanted : used pigment box for colour matching

    Started by JDarvall, 5th April 2012 07:31 AM
    60odd, box, bucks, buy, colour, feel, jake, kindly, lying, matching, mind, pigment, pigments, selling, wanted
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 1,911
    5th June 2012, 09:11 PM Go to last post
  27. G'day folks...help with old english oak desk please.

    Started by Lawry01, 29th April 2012 10:55 AM
    8 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
    • Replies: 114
    • Views: 14,554
    4th June 2012, 02:26 PM Go to last post
  28. soy-gel paint stripper

    Started by angryranga, 16th May 2012 12:02 PM
    brisbane, gene, paint, soy-gel, soygel, stockist, stripper
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 3,888
    18th May 2012, 06:09 PM Go to last post
  29. Tassie oak desk resto

    Started by Crick60, 2nd May 2012 08:38 PM
    10mm, age, apologise, approach, centre, choice, compressed, considered, desk, dimensions, external, inlay, leather, marine, nice, oak, piece, ply, question, replace, replacing, resto, strong, structurally, tassie, thick, thumbs, timber, top, trade
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,003
    17th May 2012, 08:40 AM Go to last post

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