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  1. soy-gel paint stripper

    Started by angryranga, 16th May 2012 12:02 PM
    brisbane, gene, paint, soy-gel, soygel, stockist, stripper
    • Replies: 2
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    Sir Stinkalot
    18th May 2012, 06:09 PM Go to last post

  2. 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
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    Arron
    17th May 2012, 08:40 AM Go to last post

  3. What type of chair is this?

    Started by dragit, 21st February 2012 12:02 PM
    advice, chair, cheers, condition, cover, curved, day, double, dragit, exaggerated, fabric, feet…, front, garage, hoping, instructions, leather, picked, rail, repaired…, repairing, round, sale, seat, seat…, style/era, track, trim, type 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 2,805
    welshviking
    13th May 2012, 10:34 PM Go to last post

  4. Military shield repair

    Started by AlexS, 3rd May 2012 11:54 AM
    800, blades, block, carved, carving, coats, drafting, drag, dremel, fixative, flextool, gilt, grit, lettering, matched, military, nibs, piece, repair, sanded, scroll, sealed, separated, shape, shield, skills, spray-on, table, traced, wood
    • Replies: 5
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    John Saxton
    7th May 2012, 08:34 PM Go to last post

  5. Parker Chair Loose Seat

    Started by tobot, 25th April 2012 02:46 PM
    advice, appreciated, araldite, beautiful, bottom, chair, chairs, curved, design, folks, glue, holes, install, loose, parker, plugs, plywood, pulled, screw, screws, seat, set, skill, steel, suggested, suggestion, timber, toby, type, wet
    • Replies: 2
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    tobot
    26th April 2012, 12:10 AM Go to last post

  6. Restoration - Old Silky Oak Desk

    Started by stephenoutram, 22nd April 2012 12:57 PM
    cabinet, clean, comments, condition, darkish, desk, drawer-fronts, durable, finish, fixed, framing, furniture, grateful, intended, natural, oak, photos, piece--which, pieces, planks, projects, ready, removed, restoration, silky, stain, stickers, timber, top, top--originally
    • Replies: 2
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    stephenoutram
    25th April 2012, 04:29 PM Go to last post

  7. Restoration of an antique Work Bench.

    Started by rogerjenkins, 15th August 2011 10:09 PM
    ancient, antique, bench, choice, cleaners, descriptive, doubt, eyes, heaps, heavy, idiot, item, junk, original, peoples, photos, piece, rain, restoration, roger, saves, scrubbing, sun, taking, throw, time, way.u, words, work
    • Replies: 13
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    rogerjenkins
    21st April 2012, 10:13 AM Go to last post

  8. supplier for old style brass screws.

    Started by JDarvall, 5th March 2012 01:04 PM
    brass, driver, head, jake, kindly, pan, phillips, scarse, screw, screws, shorely, single, skairse, skerse, slip, slot, spell, spelt, stocks, style, supplier, time, told, type
    • Replies: 6
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    Tree pirate
    18th April 2012, 08:43 AM Go to last post

  9. A new project - plus pleasant surprise

    Started by Thumbthumper, 27th June 2011 12:30 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    bubbling, cabinet, call, cedar, chair, dark, delivered, friend, glue, home, joints, label, leg, lenehan, lovely, personally, pic, pleasant, pot, project, re-glue, rebuild, restoration, restore, surprise, sydney, time, told, top, upholstery 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 4,397
    sanhui
    13th April 2012, 01:59 PM Go to last post

  10. old timber house restoration

    Started by brooklana, 20th March 2012 06:25 PM
    100, apply, appreciated, bedrooms, brooklana, coachwood, discolouring, dry, dusty, helpfulluthanks, hoop, house, ideas, info, mould, natural, painted, people, pine, preserve, remove, restoration, restoring, softwood, sure.any, timber, type, wet
    • Replies: 7
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    Horsecroft88
    28th March 2012, 03:56 PM Go to last post

  11. Kitchen Hutch finsh & restoration

    Started by dragit, 3rd November 2011 09:09 PM
    banging, bath, colour, condition, deserves, finsh, furniture, grain, handles, hutch, idea, kitchen, nice, novice, original, outlay, phone, photos, piece, pieces, plan, raised, refinish, restoration, restored, rinse, rub, semi-circular…, timber, unit
    • Replies: 5
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    dragit
    27th March 2012, 11:02 AM Go to last post

  12. 3mm reed caning goove depth and width

    Started by JDarvall, 2nd March 2012 10:58 AM
    3mm, 6mm, allowances, bit, cane, caning, chairs, clue, cut, depth, existing, fiddle, fit, goove, groove, grooves, guesstimate, hoping, jake, kindly, people, perfect, recut, reed, remembers, restorer, seats, sheet, uno, width
    • Replies: 3
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    JDarvall
    20th March 2012, 08:43 PM Go to last post

  13. restoration old chest drawers

    Started by Pandora, 10th March 2012 07:37 AM
    beautifully, brass, carcass, chest, covered, dabbed, damaging, drawer, drawers, finished, front, handles, hated, inside, justice, mahogany, metal/brass, nan, oak, original, pic, removed, replace, rescued, restoration, screws, stud, suggestions, throw, ugly
    • Replies: 2
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    AJ
    13th March 2012, 03:11 PM Go to last post

  14. Please help! Lovely old red cedar unit in very un-knowledgable hands! (mine)

    Started by LisaZ, 11th March 2012 10:11 AM
    advance, advice, appreciated, avoid, beginner, cedar, damaged, finish, flannel, hands, heaps, inlay, lovely, methylated, normal, piece, preserve, protect, read, red, remove, rest, soft, spirits, stripper, switched, unit, unknowledgable, varnish, worried
    • Replies: 7
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    LisaZ
    12th March 2012, 01:00 PM Go to last post

  15. Oak Gateleg Table for Restoration

    Started by graemet, 8th March 2012 09:15 AM
    c.1910, details, dining, drop-leaf, forum, free, gateleg, gday, graeme, heads, marketplace, oak, offering, restoration, restorers, swap, table
    • Replies: 0
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    graemet
    8th March 2012, 09:15 AM Go to last post

  16. Restoring a rocking chair

    Started by jessicaflox, 7th March 2012 05:02 PM
    advance, apologies, approach, based, chair, cheap, completely, forever, fun, furniture, hope, hoping, ideas, japan, love, picked, piece, presentable, project, restoration, restoring, rocking, simple, stamped, start, time, tips, wasting, wood, worried
    • Replies: 0
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    jessicaflox
    7th March 2012, 05:02 PM Go to last post

  17. Restoring/finishing turned chairs

    Started by snowyskiesau, 7th February 2012 02:34 PM
    antiques, approach, bits, chairs, clean, colour, coming, couple, design, detailed, don;t, examples, fairly, finish, finishing, gloss, light, lot, matt, pictures, pieces, prior, refinishing, repair, restoring or finishing, stain, suit, timber, travelling, turned
    • Replies: 6
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    wheelinround
    5th March 2012, 02:07 PM Go to last post

  18. Question Restore Antique Art Deco Buffet

    Started by MartinaEL, 19th January 2012 05:28 PM
    1930s-1940s, advance, antique, art, attached, buffet, current, deco, doors, inlays, love, missing, photo, purchased, recently, replacement, restore, restoring, roughly, tips, wood
    • Replies: 5
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    AnselmFraser
    4th March 2012, 05:49 AM Go to last post

  19. X posted - What paint to use?

    Started by ElizaLeahy, 25th February 2012 08:15 PM
    acrylic, decorate, estapol, finish, harp, leaves, paint, scrolls, shellac, sort, soundboard, top
    • Replies: 1
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    dr4g0nfly
    2nd March 2012, 06:44 AM Go to last post

  20. olde telephones ... again

    Started by fletty, 23rd February 2012 03:55 PM
    15th, company, connection, curved, finish, front, grain, grime, household, howards, ink, labelled, metallic, olde, painted, pattern, phone, quickly, removed, residue, restora, restoring, sheet, smoke, steel, surprised, telephones, test, timber, transfer
    • Replies: 6
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    Claw Hama
    29th February 2012, 10:10 PM Go to last post

  21. Silky Oak dresser

    Started by pjt, 14th February 2012 12:01 AM
    198397198396, 198398, comments, dings, draw, dresser, existing, feel, finish, finished, found, free, howards, knocks, oak, original, ouline, people, perfect, pete, piece, preserved, refinish, restore, roundtoit, sell, silky, thinking, top, underneath
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,116
    IanW
    24th February 2012, 08:56 AM Go to last post

  22. Images of household furniture from 1900 to 1950

    Started by dabbler, 15th February 2012 04:54 PM
    1900, 1950, appeared, attention, bits, cabinets, collection, complimented, cupboards, dabbler, dining, finishes, furniture, gather, gramophone, gramophones, household, images, impression, list, main, original, pieces, project, re-finish, repair, source, suggest, tables, total
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,547
    Chief012
    22nd February 2012, 01:09 PM Go to last post

  23. How to tell if termites boars are there

    Started by Jarrahrules, 17th February 2012 07:20 AM
    appreciated.d, boars, borers, chemicals, days, drown, greatly, guys, handrail, hole, house, inlaw, jamie, kill, peice, pool, putting, sister, termites, thererolleyes, timber, treat, true, wondering, worried
    • Replies: 12
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    rod1949
    20th February 2012, 10:05 PM Go to last post

  24. I'm after a piece of spring steel...

    Started by Woodwould, 12th February 2012 01:50 PM
    .9mm, 4.2mm, broken, chances, clock, dimensions, door, exact, inches, latch, locating, piece, send, slightly, spring, steel, stuff, thick, thicker, wide, wider
    • Replies: 9
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    Woodwould
    12th February 2012, 10:54 PM Go to last post

  25. ray haas needs help.

    Started by Ray Haas, 2nd February 2012 12:37 AM
    advise, antique, bait, blistered, dark, died, dining, forum, found, french, haas, holiday, left, love, loves, mahogany, polish, polished, rat, ray, restoration, return, rotted, stain, table, wife
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,480
    auscab
    4th February 2012, 01:31 AM Go to last post

  26. Desk to be restored

    Started by Sparhawk, 25th February 2009 09:50 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    attached, background, bottom, desk, draws, dust, easily, functional, guess, half, hazzard, idea, lot, meant, melbourne, nails, photos, pictures, piece, potential, price, questions, restore, restored, restorer, slant, splits, store, type, vintage
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 4,702
    Christos
    29th January 2012, 07:47 PM Go to last post

  27. Veneer for old radio

    Started by Radio, 5th January 2012 11:13 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    193497, close, considered, folks, greeting, happy, hoping, impossible, literature, matching, missing, net, pale, picture, piece, produce, radio, radios, replica, required, restores, searches, selected, sort, specially, thousand, veneer, watercolours, words, worth
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 4,847
    Radio
    20th January 2012, 05:52 PM Go to last post

  28. old to look new again

    Started by silky oak man, 6th January 2012 11:11 AM
    ,am, guy, hell, paint, paper, sand, sanded, steel, stripper, table, telling, timber, told, understand, wool, you2tsup
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 1,792
    munruben
    17th January 2012, 07:22 PM Go to last post

  29. Now I know why Red Cedar was so popular.

    Started by markharrison, 7th January 2012 09:46 PM
    afford, balloon, balloon back, beautiful, blimey, block, cedar, chair, filler, finish, flat, follow, form, guide, how-to, job, joins, joint, photos, plane, planed, popular, rear, red, red cedar, smashed, straight, timber, tomorrow, worse
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,865
    markharrison
    7th January 2012, 09:46 PM Go to last post

  30. help with restoration strategy 40s-50s style veneered buffet

    Started by satyanchari, 30th December 2011 05:08 PM
    40s-50s, 40s50s, appears, bucks, buffet, cheers, closer, follow, garage, gentle, initially, inspection, intention, nice, observations, picked, pictures, piece, post, restoration, restored, sale, satyan, sparkle, strategy, style, timber, veneer, veneered
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,027
    satyanchari
    2nd January 2012, 12:53 AM Go to last post

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