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  1. Veneer cabinets restoration - need advice

    Started by alex6279, 24th August 2012 11:05 PM
    achievable, achieve, advance, advice, alcohol, alex, based, cabinets, color, coloring, details, discussions, drawers, experience, finish, grain, guys, hire, job, options, prepared, project, questions, rest, restoration, satin, shellac, solution, veneer, visible
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,879
    Lawry01
    27th August 2012, 05:20 PM Go to last post

  2. Paint stripper

    Started by Timbacare, 11th August 2012 09:10 PM
    advise, appreciated, blue, camphor, carved, chest, issue, layers, nicely, paint, painted, past, rid, scored, solid, stripper, time, type, white, wood
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,092
    Chief012
    20th August 2012, 08:27 PM Go to last post

  3. Any idea how to approach this?

    Started by Antipodes, 11th August 2012 11:16 PM
    5mm, absolutely, alternative, approach, called, casting, chains, coffee, guessing, hardware, hefty, idea, ideas, legs, metal, mid-century, nice, nitro-ed, parallel-edged, ready, resort, rosewood, rundown, sanded, screw, sturdy, sweden, table, tin, top
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 1,548
    Antipodes
    12th August 2012, 07:44 PM Go to last post

  4. 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: 1,804
    Antipodes
    12th August 2012, 07:38 PM Go to last post

  5. 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: 1,646
    Timbacare
    12th August 2012, 10:21 AM Go to last post

  6. 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: 1,459
    Lawry01
    9th August 2012, 06:32 PM Go to last post

  7. 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: 2,561
    jimbur
    8th August 2012, 06:39 PM Go to last post

  8. Smile Restoring a blackwood deco table - first-timer!

    Started by MissCassy, 3rd August 2012 02:08 PM
    advice, appears, art, blackwood, deco, dining, finishes, firsttimer, glossy, gorgeous, hope, legs, love, main, natural, nick, oil, pine, ply, pretty, requires, restoration, restored, restoring, similar, simple, solid, stripped, table, timber 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,835
    Horsecroft88
    8th August 2012, 02:14 PM Go to last post

  9. 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: 1,654
    Chief012
    6th August 2012, 11:51 AM Go to last post

  10. 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: 2,547
    Antipodes
    5th August 2012, 08:24 PM Go to last post

  11. Restore 1930s Art Deco Dining Table Burr Walnut Veneer

    Started by Eddzter1978, 29th April 2012 12:21 AM
    1930s, advice, appreciated, art, attch, brilliant, burr, chairs, deco, dining, fan, finish, forum, huge, informative, lots, lovely, period, pictures, pieces, poor/flaky/lifting, restore, restorer, restoring, skills, table, threads, tips, veneer, walnut
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 8,406
    Antipodes
    4th August 2012, 12:47 AM Go to last post

  12. 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: 5,056
    Antipodes
    1st August 2012, 08:09 PM Go to last post

  13. 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: 1,893
    Antipodes
    30th July 2012, 11:52 AM Go to last post

  14. 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: 2,340
    Antipodes
    29th July 2012, 05:37 PM Go to last post

  15. 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: 1,573
    rogerjenkins
    25th July 2012, 09:00 PM Go to last post

  16. 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: 1,765
    Horsecroft88
    23rd July 2012, 02:38 PM Go to last post

  17. 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: 4,767
    Antipodes
    21st July 2012, 11:46 PM Go to last post

  18. 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: 1,763
    Lawry01
    20th July 2012, 05:02 PM Go to last post

  19. 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: 2,388
    Horsecroft88
    17th July 2012, 02:13 PM Go to last post

  20. 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: 2,171
    Chief012
    16th July 2012, 10:42 AM Go to last post

  21. 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: 1,851
    aljenit
    15th July 2012, 05:59 PM Go to last post

  22. 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: 10,319
    Lawry01
    6th July 2012, 11:19 PM Go to last post

  23. 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: 2,515
    Lawry01
    5th July 2012, 01:00 PM Go to last post

  24. 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: 1,434
    d2rsmaster
    4th July 2012, 02:52 AM Go to last post

  25. 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: 2,111
    JDarvall
    3rd July 2012, 11:10 AM Go to last post

  26. 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: 2,952
    Chief012
    3rd July 2012, 10:27 AM Go to last post

  27. 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: 3,888
    ELM6061
    28th June 2012, 06:15 PM Go to last post

  28. 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: 20,197
    claypot
    19th June 2012, 11:00 AM Go to last post

  29. 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: 2,306
    Claw Hama
    10th June 2012, 06:14 PM Go to last post

  30. 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: 1,923
    JDarvall
    5th June 2012, 09:11 PM Go to last post

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