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  1. How best to do this?

    Started by bob w, 21st April 2010 07:29 PM
    1860, adds, belonged, black, cedar, chiffoniere, circa, coating, dark, definately, dents, expertise, finish, japan, labour, leaving, love, marks, mother, mothers, patchy, patina, refinish, remove, renovate, reported, restore, told
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 1,887
    23rd April 2010, 04:30 PM Go to last post
  2. Refurbish Danish De Luxe

    Started by Phamous, 17th April 2010 09:48 AM
    acquired, advance, advice, advise, appreciated, confirm, danish, frames, hoping, kelly, luxe, materials, morning, oils, photos, purchase, quickly, refurbish, refurbishing, restoration, rosewood, set, sofa, start, steel, straight, supplied, thanking, wood, wool
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,572
    18th April 2010, 08:08 AM Go to last post
  3. In need of experienced advice with MDF please?

    Started by HumidorDude, 16th April 2010 09:31 PM
    adam, advice, assuming, attached, boxes, cigars, dropped, experienced, fill, fix, forum, hinges, huge, humidor, ideas, lid, mdf, model, nick, puzzled, quadrant, screwed, screws, solution, stick, stool, store, stumbled, tremendous, wooden
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 1,517
    16th April 2010, 10:49 PM Go to last post
  4. ??????????????????

    Started by sambi, 15th April 2010 02:05 AM
    anyne, colour, drawers, fit, helps, reddy, walnut, wood
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 1,553
    15th April 2010, 10:43 PM Go to last post
  5. pearl insert draw handles

    Started by eskimo, 26th March 2010 10:17 PM
    draw, handles, imprint, insert, mother, pearl, stuff
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,462
    14th April 2010, 02:03 PM Go to last post
  6. Heirloom makeup table

    Started by cleturno, 12th April 2010 12:18 PM
    1920-1930s, acts, base, bottom, center, faimly, fairly, figure, furniture, glue, glued, groove, guess, heirloom, hide, hold, joint, makeup, outer, plywood, replace, slipped, square, style, table, tips, unstick, wife, wood, woodworking
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,196
    12th April 2010, 12:18 PM Go to last post
  7. Black Calico / Baize

    Started by quercus, 3rd April 2010 02:07 PM
    afternoon, baize, black, calico, call, cedar, cheaper, cloth, desk, easter, happy, imagine, inlaid, lacquer, lacquered, leather, material, melbourne, option, original, repair, restoring, shiny, supply, top, type, victorian, writing
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,579
    4th April 2010, 09:01 AM Go to last post
  8. Beginner floundering with wood finish

    Started by shaggers_jr, 15th March 2010 12:00 PM
    appreciated, beginner, coat, cobathane, crack, era, finer, finish, finishes, floors, floundering, forum, furniture, grade, grainy, guess, hairline, intro, oil-based, overly, paint, polyurethane, sandpaper, specifically, spreading, stable, stop, suggestions, suit, wood
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,420
    18th March 2010, 04:50 PM Go to last post
  9. 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
  10. Citrus Stripper Softening Wood?

    Started by quesne, 15th March 2010 04:26 AM
    blade, blob, borg, citrus, cut, cuts, dream, edge, experience, fibres, final, finish, hook, nice, orange, pass, piece, scraper, semi-gooey, sharp, smooth, soft, softening, stripper, stripping, tear, tested, u.s, walnut, wood
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,625
    15th March 2010, 04:26 AM Go to last post
  11. table restoration - how to strip veneer and glue leg?

    Started by magsrevs, 10th March 2010 06:54 PM
    centre, clamping, closest, droop, extended, finish, glue, glueing, hints, hope, ideas, leg, legs, love, nick, photos, post, progress, prove, rarely, restoration, rich, sake, slightly, solution, split, strip, table, tricky, veneer
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,421
    10th March 2010, 07:11 PM Go to last post
  12. Brass

    Started by chowcini, 16th February 2010 10:47 PM
    brass, epoxy, glue
    • Replies: 7
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    20th February 2010, 12:51 AM Go to last post
  13. Table Restoration

    Started by malcolmt, 26th January 2010 11:01 AM
    contributing, enjoyed, forum, found, grand, hand, information, minwax, primary, process, professional, quick, quoted, restoration, restoring, result;, running, source, table, timer, ubeaut, write
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,316
    14th February 2010, 06:44 PM Go to last post
  14. sideboard info needed on it

    Started by horse123, 1st February 2010 09:57 PM
    aust, cabinet, extra, info, lem, lonsdale, makers, melbourne, needed, sideboard, sort, thomas, wood
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,876
    12th February 2010, 08:55 PM Go to last post
  15. Question smell in the art deco walnut veneer

    Started by wondering, 6th February 2010 07:08 PM
    addresses, art, bedroom, bit, coming, deco, finish, finishing, impossible, local, novice, oil, original, pong, recommendations, sank, scented, sharp, smell, sometimes.our, sour, strip, stripped, suite, total, treatment, veneer, walnut, website, wood
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,426
    12th February 2010, 07:18 PM Go to last post
  16. English oak lounge suite, finished at last!

    Started by jane123, 22nd January 2010 12:34 PM
    0000, advice, brown, coats, concentration, covered, cushions, dark, english, fabricated, finally, finished, jane.doh, lounge, oak, phew, reduce, shellac, sprung, steel, stripped, stuffed, suite, unwaxed, upload, wax, waxed, webbed, white, wool
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 2,161
    31st January 2010, 08:43 PM Go to last post
  17. Restoring an old cedar wardrobe

    Started by growler Peter^11452, 30th January 2010 05:30 PM
    100, appearance, appears, bare, cedar, clean, comments, easy, gday, helpful, house, improve, inclination, job, life, metho, mould, muck, paint, perfection, polish, restoration, restoring, short, spread, suggestions, time, wardrobe, wax, wood
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 5,144
    31st January 2010, 08:31 AM Go to last post
  18. Snooker table restoration

    Started by mikebr, 18th January 2010 03:28 AM
    brush, colour, coloured, couple, cushions, finish, gloss, item, lacquer, legs, lock, looked, mahogany, nice, paint, photos, post, questions, removed, restoration, shades, snooker, spray, stain, stripped, table, varnish, varnished, varnishing, wood
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 4,302
    29th January 2010, 08:02 AM Go to last post
  19. Look at what I scored!!!

    Started by Sebastiaan56, 27th January 2010 07:30 AM
    age, blackwood, decent, doors, finally, friend, handles, home, ideas, kerb, kiss, leave, moving, replace, replicas, scored, shelves, solid, tallboy, tools, veneers, wardrobe, wax
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 2,039
    27th January 2010, 09:19 PM Go to last post
  20. Chair Restoration

    Started by Elill, 14th January 2010 02:21 PM
    appreciated, chair, day, dismantle, finish, frame, frame/arms, gday, glue, glued, idea, i’ll, i’m, joints, lounge/sitting, picture, post, prefer, preparation, previously, question, restoration, restoring, separate, special, suppose, timber, upholsterer, way/product, woodwork
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 1,917
    27th January 2010, 02:48 PM Go to last post
  21. 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
  22. history on a antique maker in melbourne

    Started by horse123, 9th January 2010 06:08 PM
    address, antique, cheers, found, googled, history, horse, ihave, inside, lem, lonsdale, maker, makers, melbourne, read, rest, shape, sideborad, thomas, triangles
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,628
    14th January 2010, 10:36 AM Go to last post
  23. White heat mark on mahogany

    Started by Black Cat, 6th January 2010 06:09 AM
    antique, books, due, forum, furniture, heat, item, luck, mahogany, mark, passing, photo, piece, remove, renovations, ruining, sort, storage, suggest, white, wood
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,748
    6th January 2010, 06:09 AM Go to last post
  24. Repair flaking lacquer on coffee table

    Started by johnno29, 3rd January 2010 01:59 PM
    advance, coffee, ensure, flaking, guys, john, lacquer, repair, repair/reseal, start, table, timber
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,881
    5th January 2010, 11:17 AM Go to last post
  25. Useful guide to restoration

    Started by rsser, 5th December 2009 12:11 PM
    click, copy;, discounted, encapsulates, familiar, guide, hard, institute, learned, lessons, lot, mine, register, restoration, slow, terms, website/forum, woodworkers, written
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,702
    5th January 2010, 03:56 AM Go to last post
  26. clean a queen anne dresser for painting

    Started by horse123, 3rd January 2010 05:18 PM
    anne, clean, coat, dresser, enamel, finish, gloss, paint, painting, prepare, queen, stain, suface, timber, tri-coat, usual, wthen
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,585
    3rd January 2010, 05:18 PM Go to last post
  27. Neglected Dressing Table

    Started by robbo266317, 15th December 2009 08:11 AM
    124257, 124258, couple, damage, damaged, dressing, fill, improve, knobs, leave, left, light, main, neglected, project, question, recoat, replaced, shine, simply, skills, suggestions, table, top
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 2,131
    3rd January 2010, 03:06 PM Go to last post
  28. What should I do?

    Started by Sebastiaan56, 30th November 2009 09:30 AM
    1850s, assume, black, button, carnuba, cedar, decrease, dresser, finish, handles, hardware, installing, lac, lick, mother, original, painting, panels, planning, radically, rebuild, recommendations, replacement, reputedly, shrinkage, solid, style, talked, tlc
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 1,951
    14th December 2009, 11:47 PM Go to last post
  29. Atnique Table Restoration

    Started by Mem Wright, 8th November 2009 06:08 PM
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    1 2
    advance, antique, atnique, day, deserves, dining, formed, french, grade, grooves, hand, inherited, legs, mem, polish, polyurethene, question, remove, restoration, rubbing, sanding, sandpaper, setting, silly, sort, specially, suggestions, table, tlc, tool
    • Replies: 23
    • Views: 4,466
    14th December 2009, 01:09 AM Go to last post
  30. Not an antique but worth doing.

    Started by robbo266317, 5th December 2009 05:45 PM
    123591, 123592, antique, au$13.00, biscuit, bought, center, coffee, decided, dowels, finish, joint, legs, mahogany, shellac, snapped, solid, table, teak, tender, worth
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,248
    10th December 2009, 06:59 AM Go to last post

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