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  1. gramophone needs loving

    Started by SawDustSniffer, 21st December 2011 09:44 PM
    2tsup, bloke, book, change, darwin, decide, freight, gold, government, gramophone, hard, heep, house, housing, job, junk, leaf, lock, loving, original, pay, post, prevoius, restore, store, story, tenant, uncle, veneer, xmas
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,232
    SawDustSniffer
    25th December 2011, 09:09 PM Go to last post

  2. Bentwood chairs

    Started by Aangelique1611, 13th December 2011 09:53 AM
    bentwood, bit, brown/black, careful, chairs, coat, colour, dark, delicate, embossed, gentle, gloss, hassle/chance, hit, paint, painting, pastel, patina, previously, product, ruining, sanding, save, scraping, seat, shades, stained, straight, stripping, wouldn’t
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 8,689
    rogerjenkins
    14th December 2011, 09:24 PM Go to last post

  3. Post Flood damaged - what to do?

    Started by Objet Thingy, 25th January 2011 10:59 AM
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    1920s, bed, bedroom, bit, bleach, carted, damaged, drawers, dry, flood, furniture, googled, hell, left, main, nik, oak, pieces, pile, play, project, remove, restoration, rosenstengel, rubbish, silky, solution, suite, table, wreck
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 4,810
    camsaragus
    12th December 2011, 01:09 PM Go to last post

  4. Steve Morrison

    Started by Steve Morrison, 11th December 2011 10:51 PM
    advice, aged, ant, appreciated, built, colour, comments, cut, dark, deep, dept, discoloured, discolouring, grey, houn, ideas, method, morrison, pine, product, sand, sanded, steve, surface, table, texture, timber, treat, wood
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,190
    Steve Morrison
    11th December 2011, 10:51 PM Go to last post

  5. Silky Oak "glory box" restoration

    Started by choccy92, 10th December 2011 06:39 PM
    box, box-which, cheers, dark, difficult, finish, frame, furniture-quite, glory, glory box, oak, pieces, ply, product, remove, restoration, restoring, revive, sanding, silky, solid, sort, trunk, use-im, walls, wary, wondering
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,977
    fineboxes
    11th December 2011, 07:21 PM Go to last post

  6. Cedar chest of drawers

    Started by Horsecroft88, 9th November 2011 02:13 PM
    appreciated, brass, careful, cedar, chest, concerned, correct, damage, drawers, edge, fiddleback, front, handles, level, past, period, piece, polish, professional, repair, repairer, replaced, skill, sort, suggestions, suspect, time, top, totally, wrong 4 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 3,674
    Horsecroft88
    9th December 2011, 11:27 AM Go to last post

  7. Chest of Drawers restoration (or unintentional complete rebuild)

    Started by pampelmuse, 4th December 2011 01:33 PM
    antique, bottom, cabinet, chest, complete, drawer, drawers, exposed, finished, frame, front, fronts, inside, kauri, nail, nailed, nails, paint, pic, piece, rebuild, repairs, restoration, runners, stage, started, surfaces, taking, timber, unintentional
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 3,005
    burraboy
    6th December 2011, 06:30 PM Go to last post

  8. Mouldings for desk

    Started by Doken, 1st December 2011 09:09 PM
    100, australian, bank, breaking, cedar, desk, drawers, finally, folks, hardwood, inlay, matching, melbourne, metres, missing, mouldings, replace, restoring, run, top, writing
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,936
    Doken
    5th December 2011, 09:29 PM Go to last post

  9. A Promotion Gift

    Started by Bob Smalser, 1st December 2011 03:40 AM
    22nd, age, atchison, bent, braze, bronze, common, company, don’t, fine, gift, guard, hilt, hole, kansas, metal, national, pin, promotion, quillon, regiment, regiments, repair, silver, soft, solder, stick, surfaces, sword, volunteer
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 1,911
    Barry_White
    5th December 2011, 01:48 PM Go to last post

  10. table with water damage

    Started by nethergate, 30th November 2011 07:38 AM
    5mm, advice, bit, cat, cloth, cover, cracks, damage, deep, doesn’t, heaps, helped, iron, it’s, i’m, james, lacker, life, moisture, photo, pine, rest, stain, stuff, table, tonight, touch, towel, water, wood
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 1,836
    nethergate
    5th December 2011, 07:30 AM Go to last post

  11. Can I make my timber darker

    Started by linbeam, 1st December 2011 08:41 AM
    bottom, claimed, condition, darker, feed, finish, french, furnitre, furniture, grain, hope, howards, knots, light, make, match, nest, oak, pine, purchased, recently, rest, restore, sanded, tables, tier, timber, top, wax, wood
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 1,520
    Horsecroft88
    2nd December 2011, 04:47 PM Go to last post

  12. Squatters Chairs

    Started by Woodlawn, 16th November 2011 08:20 PM
    appreciated, arms, bases, bear, bottom, chairs, cheers, couple, covered, extending, forward, guys, hinged, ideas, mans, middle, poor, purpose, reclining, seats, slightly, spring, springs, squatters, thin, timber, unfinished, upholstered, verandah, woodlawn
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 3,628
    Woodlawn
    19th November 2011, 09:19 AM Go to last post

  13. Chair Advice

    Started by Andyh77777, 17th November 2011 09:01 AM
    advice, age, appears, attach, cedar, chair, chairs, clearance, curious, experience, feedback, furniture, left, leg, level, loose, note, odd, picked, recently, respect, restoring, sale, set, variation
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,286
    Andyh77777
    17th November 2011, 06:08 PM Go to last post

  14. Oak carver

    Started by snowyskiesau, 14th November 2011 12:24 PM
    apply, carver, finish, fix, friend, glue, house, oak, reed, rush, seat, staying, suggestions, suitable, understanding, warming
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,209
    wheelinround
    14th November 2011, 01:37 PM Go to last post

  15. Help needed refinishing a few pieces of sentimental value

    Started by Vicroamer, 30th October 2011 09:50 AM
    60s, 70s, advice, bit, coffee, correct, couple, dimantle, door, front, holes, method, needed, nest, occasional, pieces, plywood, refinishing, sentimental, solid, start, style, table, tables, teak, ted, wonky, worried, wreck, wrong
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 1,876
    Horsecroft88
    10th November 2011, 01:47 PM Go to last post

  16. Cleaning timber

    Started by piquet, 30th October 2011 10:29 AM
    boat, broom, cabots, clean, cleaning, deck, dirt, flush, garden, iaw, idea, inside, instructions, interior, karcher, lot, mix, paint, pan, peter, pressure, product, proposing, scrub, sneddon, solution, sprayer, stiff, timber, wondering
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,006
    Horsecroft88
    10th November 2011, 01:34 PM Go to last post

  17. Question oak table restoration

    Started by jw2170, 8th November 2011 02:50 PM
    120grit, antique, believes, chairs, color, comments, darker, finish, folding, friend, jacobean, oak, original, purchased, re-stain, restoration, sandpaper, section, set, stain, suggested, suggestion, table, test, tips, type, upside, varnish, welcomed, wood
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,100
    jw2170
    9th November 2011, 05:37 PM Go to last post

  18. Cleaning timber

    Started by piquet, 30th October 2011 10:28 AM
    boat, broom, cabots, clean, cleaning, deck, dirt, dust, garden, iaw, idea, inside, interior, karcher, lot, mix, paint, pan, peter, pray, pressure, product, proposing, scrub, sneddon, solution, sprayer, thenflus, timber, wondering
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,500
    piquet
    30th October 2011, 10:28 AM Go to last post

  19. Table repair

    Started by old pete, 15th October 2011 06:07 PM
    circular, deep, earn, edge, half, jobs, joining, mouldings, oval, re-, repair, round, shapes, table, time, tops
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,221
    old pete
    15th October 2011, 06:07 PM Go to last post

  20. Advice about an old trunk - please pardon the crosspost!

    Started by Chipsmith, 12th October 2011 05:56 AM
    advice, crosspost, eventually, forum, found, glass, glossy, linseed, metal, mind, murphys, nice, oil, painting, pardon, react, result, rusty, seal, sealing, semi, soap, suggestions, top, treat, treated, trunk, varnish, warm, wood
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,450
    IanAllan
    14th October 2011, 05:28 PM Go to last post

  21. How to tell, and should i give it a bash?

    Started by kabia, 19th June 2011 06:13 PM
    amateur, assess, attempting, bash, bought, buffet, buy, damage, direction, finish, found, grace, guide, idea, job, likes, oak, oil, original, path, piece, rectified, restore, restoring, service, situation, sort, varnish, wax, wife
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 1,981
    orraloon
    5th October 2011, 03:37 PM Go to last post

  22. Unhappy Help, should I worry or not?

    Started by amigala, 30th September 2011 09:33 PM
    1950, activity, black, borers, burn, cupboard, definately, dots, evidence, holes, hours, ignore, lol, oak, paint, painted, recently, spent, stripping, surface, survive, tiny, treat, white, wood, worry
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 1,585
    rogerjenkins
    3rd October 2011, 09:01 PM Go to last post

  23. Leather Chesterfield Sofa Restoration

    Started by rhancock, 1st October 2011 10:08 PM
    attack, auto, brush, cable, chesterfield, clean, follow, front, ideas, industrial, leather, liquid, loved, main, photos, plan, products, question, restoration, rubbish, saddle, sofa, solution, suggested, upholstery, vacuum, washing, water, wax, weak
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,328
    Farm boy
    3rd October 2011, 07:32 PM Go to last post

  24. Restoration of ladies writing desk

    Started by ingin1, 18th September 2011 06:06 PM
    activity, ayone, beyong, bit, borer, broken, cost, damaged, desk, direction, elaborately, half, height, identical, ingin, items, ladies, largest, legs, produce, reasonable, rescue, restoration, restoring, round, shelf, size, treat, water, writing
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,367
    ingin1
    18th September 2011, 06:06 PM Go to last post

  25. 30-40 year old Aus. Cedar Coffee Table

    Started by woodgrain, 15th September 2011 02:31 PM
    3040, aus, cedar, chip, coffee, diy, equipment, figure, garden, grain, grateful, guidance, item, options, paid, pics, provide, recycle, repair, restoration, restored, sell, similar, table, timber, time/money, top, wood, worth, year
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,308
    rustynail
    17th September 2011, 10:41 PM Go to last post

  26. Antique? Wardrobe/Dresser Restoration

    Started by young 'un, 30th August 2011 07:43 PM
    antique, date, digit, equipment, future, glory, gurus, horrible, layer, metho, oak, owner, peeling, pieces, plan, planing, project, purchase, purchased, resoration, restoration, restore, shellac, tasmanian, thick, unsure, wardrobe, wardrobe or dresser, wardrobe/dresser, weekend
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 3,636
    rogerjenkins
    4th September 2011, 10:30 PM Go to last post

  27. swivel mirror mounts?

    Started by redhedonist, 17th August 2011 05:58 PM
    advance, attach, call, computer, damaged, dressing, fittings, frame, hardware, idea, involve, leads, mirror, mounts, panels, pictures, previous, recording, reluctant, removed, repair, replace, replacement, search, searching, swivel, table, tilting, timber, upload
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,530
    rogerjenkins
    30th August 2011, 10:14 PM Go to last post

  28. relamination of delamination

    Started by titchtheclown, 31st July 2011 10:43 PM
    auction, bucks, chipboard, clamp, clamping, cut, delaminated, delamination, edwardian, finish, glued, hand, ideas, knackered, mdf, plastic, plies, plywood, pva, relamination, sheet, sheets, shellac, similarly, size, tea, top, tray, trolley, wife
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,518
    Ken-67
    29th August 2011, 12:56 PM Go to last post

  29. stripping wallpaper

    Started by 4speed, 21st August 2011 02:48 AM
    paper, remove, remover, scoring, slow, spraying, steaming, stripping, topic, wallpaper
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,469
    Handyjack
    25th August 2011, 10:40 PM Go to last post

  30. Very Old English Grandfather Clock

    Started by newport48, 18th August 2011 12:37 PM
    19th, advice, attached, basically, bell, century, cleaning, clock, day, english, fixing, grandfather, ideas, impressed, inherited, john, lots, mahogany, mechanism, perha, pic, restorer, sound, specialist, start, steps, strike, terrified, veneer, waxing
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,518
    auscab
    23rd August 2011, 11:14 PM Go to last post

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