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Got an antique you need to restore. Don't strip it and coat it with polyurethane and ruin it's value. Check in here for traditional finishes and genuine restoration help. Find out the ins and outs and how to keep or enhance it's value. Not just for furniture.

  1. Help

    Started by 0417bernie01, 2nd August 2010 10:04 PM
    accident, australian, brought, cedar, cleaning, dresser, dressing, dull, excellent, finish, finished, forward, item, left, looked, marks, metho, novic, remained, shellack, spellingc, spilled, strick, structurally, table, terrible, thankyou, top, wipe
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,506
    3rd August 2010, 09:01 PM Go to last post
  2. Seal timber before painting

    Started by 2sharp, 20th November 2014 01:06 PM
    painting, seal, timber
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,353
    23rd November 2014, 11:44 PM Go to last post
  3. stripping wallpaper

    Started by 4speed, 21st August 2011 02:48 AM
    paper, remove, remover, scoring, slow, spraying, steaming, stripping, topic, wallpaper
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,467
    25th August 2011, 10:40 PM Go to last post
  4. Fixing Old Wooden Chairs

    Started by 62woollybugger, 30th November 2019 09:34 PM
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 727
    1st December 2019, 02:25 PM Go to last post
  5. Sideboard Restoration Help

    Started by 62woollybugger, 17th March 2014 09:53 PM
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,907
    10th May 2014, 10:20 PM Go to last post
  6. History request -Kauri Pine Cupboard?

    Started by 8aGoat, 27th October 2010 05:56 PM
    27/5/39, advice, beeswax/orange, corner, cupboard, deep, era, factory, forward, guess, hand, history, illegiable, kauri, left, lustre, marking, nice, oil, pencil, pine, ply, plywood, request, rough, shelac, stye, suggestions, top, utilitarian
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,291
    23rd January 2011, 02:13 PM Go to last post
  7. Age Request -Kauri Pine Dresser

    Started by 8aGoat, 27th October 2010 06:02 PM
    advance, age, bar, boards, brand, coated, draw, drawer, dresser, finish, history, kauri, layers, lining, paint, paper, pine, repairs, request, simpsons, sliders, soild, sticker, suggestions, tradies, waste, www.tradiesbar.com.au
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,689
    1st December 2010, 06:20 PM Go to last post
  8. 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: 8,663
    14th December 2011, 09:24 PM Go to last post
  9. Talking Abbey French Polish and Spray

    Started by Abbeyfrenchpoli, 13th December 2009 03:02 PM
    abbey, abbeyspray, ago, answer, brisbane, buy, contact, dave, email, expertise, facebook, french, furniture, gday, happy, items, live.com, north, obligation, polish, properly, questions, restored, servicing, share, spray, trade, trained, treasured, troubles
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 3,063
    22nd January 2010, 07:40 AM Go to last post
  10. can you use high grain alcohol to mix with shellac flakes?

    Started by acadnut, 2nd November 2022 12:54 PM
    • Replies: 2
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    25th November 2022, 12:54 AM Go to last post
  11. Please help me!

    Started by adelaidegirl, 6th September 2012 03:21 PM
    $300, adelaide, adelaidegirlroll, beautiful, bottom, comments, continue, drawer, forum, huon, lots, metho, musty, paid, pale, people, pine, possibility, reading, realms, remove, sanded, shellac, smell, smells, untreated, wardrobe, wood, woodwork, worth
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,723
    11th September 2012, 03:13 PM Go to last post
  12. Beginner - advice on first project

    Started by adrock, 22nd January 2011 01:39 PM
    advance, advice, basically, beginner, cracks, disk, feel, finish, fix, gear, gotta, grit, idea, images, keen, love, net, oil, picked, processed/polished, project, resource, ros, sanding, semi-distressed, sheets, stretch, suggestions, table, velcro
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,490
    23rd January 2011, 06:05 PM Go to last post
  13. Chair help

    Started by Afro Boy, 12th January 2009 02:53 PM
    100yr, bars, bolts, bottom, chair, cheers, convinced, corner, cross, dowel, fil, geniuses, grandfather, holding, join, joint, m&t, mark, move, piece, pieces, rail, rails, screwed, slotted, tenon, totally, triangle, underside, vertical
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 3,252
    13th March 2009, 06:43 PM Go to last post
  14. Anyone Interested in vaneering??

    Started by aienco, 8th August 2008 06:07 PM
    ago, expensive, fee, forum, happy, hoping, interested, job, melboune, pair, pay, professional, reasonable, results, speakers, tannoys, timber, tony, vaneered, vaneering, vintage, wondering
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 2,599
    15th August 2008, 10:57 AM Go to last post
  15. The Best Glue

    Started by AJ, 8th October 2009 11:54 AM
    araldite, capability, chairs, expensive, failed, filling, gap, gaps, glue, glued, ideas, joins, joints, loose, recall, restore, strong, time
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,589
    10th October 2009, 11:15 PM Go to last post
  16. Restoring a red cedar spa

    Started by ajmuzza, 4th May 2019 11:16 AM
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 1,719
    6th May 2019, 01:26 AM Go to last post
  17. 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: 1,871
    27th August 2012, 05:20 PM Go to last post
  18. Barstools from ikia

    Started by AlexOsk, 5th May 2023 07:06 PM
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,217
    8th June 2023, 04:57 PM Go to last post
  19. Cedar chest repair WIP

    Started by AlexS, 6th October 2009 07:23 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    board, bottoms, cabinetmaker, cedar, chest, columns, construction, drawer, drawers, dust, dustboards, front, gaps, grooves, left, panels, photo, photos, rail, rails, remove, repair, runners, shrinkage, step, stops, time, top, wip, worn
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 5,378
    26th October 2009, 09:26 AM Go to last post
  20. Strange drawer

    Started by AlexS, 14th December 2009 07:25 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    aus, bottom, bureau, cedar, closed, common, drawer, drops, fall, front, furniture, gap, half, means, strange
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 4,020
    19th July 2010, 07:47 PM Go to last post
  21. Refinished dresser

    Started by AlexS, 8th December 2008 02:26 PM
    dated, dresser, fibres, hoping, job, maker, minus, pencil, pics, ply, raise, read, readable, refinished, rest, restore, sanding, shellac, signature, signed, smeared, soft, spilled, stays, suggestion, time, top, water, wiped, writing
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,807
    14th December 2008, 07:05 AM Go to last post
  22. Horrible chair repair

    Started by AlexS, 21st February 2009 09:31 PM
    aligned, break, chair, cost, costing, craft, dowel, finished, fix, glue, guarantee, holes, horrible, insisted, legs, match, mortice, pics, post, price, pva, repair, report, sat, sentimental, set, tenon, timber, told, wip
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 4,393
    22nd March 2009, 11:49 AM Go to last post
  23. Old German Tambour repair

    Started by AlexS, 27th December 2012 07:05 PM
    1920, appears, chest, common, describes, european, fabric, friend, german, looked, method, newspaper, pics, post, re-using, repair, repairing, salvaging, separated, slats, tambour, view, week
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,337
    31st December 2012, 06:40 PM Go to last post
  24. 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
    • Views: 1,671
    7th May 2012, 08:34 PM Go to last post
  25. 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
  26. Veneer table restoration

    Started by alkenc, 2nd March 2010 08:30 AM
    bench, black, burns, circular, gday, hardwood, heat, howards, marks, photo, remove, removed, restor-a-finish, restoration, ring, rings, sanding, scuff, started.doh, suggest, table, top, veneer, white
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,936
    18th March 2010, 01:49 PM Go to last post
  27. Restoring a spinning wheel

    Started by Allan at Wallan, 15th November 2016 03:28 PM
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 2,932
    14th January 2017, 03:56 PM Go to last post
  28. Question Danish Modern? Refinishing?

    Started by Allison, 5th July 2009 07:38 PM
    allison-, appreciated, bought, danish, desk, fine, funiture, info, modern, oiled, piece, reall;y, refinish, refinishing, steel, table, teak, wool
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,218
    5th July 2009, 09:32 PM Go to last post
  29. sewing table renovation-

    Started by allison-, 20th August 2010 03:09 PM
    145208, decent, hold, renovation, renovation-, replace, replacement, replacing, rest, sewing, simliar, style, table, top
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,819
    29th August 2010, 10:34 PM Go to last post
  30. an old chair.

    Started by alwayscurious, 4th January 2009 09:00 PM
    advice, brisbane, brute, carved, carving, chair, countersunk, dark, fabric, front, hardwood, job, legs, love, north, padded, past, pieces, properly, re-do, school, screws, seat, shellacked, sort, split, strip, ugly, upholstery, wooden
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,139
    10th January 2009, 10:14 AM Go to last post

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