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  1. Rings on dining table...

    Started by Bywong builder, 19th October 2008 01:46 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    advice, appreciated, bought, condition, couple, cups, dining, double, dull, extension, glasses, lifeless, moment, parker, pretty, prominent, recently, refinishing, removing, rings, search, stains, suggestions, surprised, table, tabletop, tarting, teak, water
    • Replies: 27
    • Views: 6,485
    jaywit
    24th April 2009, 11:46 PM Go to last post

  2. Moved: Converting an old pine cupboard

    Started by mic-d, 22nd April 2009 03:19 PM
    converting, cupboard, pine
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  3. table top

    Started by gdf26562, 4th April 2009 04:33 PM
    appears, appreciatted, attached, badly, boards, broken, car, coffs, couple, crack, cracked, dry, due, filled, harbour, hide, mildura, moved, movement, nailed, owner, pics, proverbial, putty, result, table, timber, time, top, water
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 1,966
    chowcini
    16th April 2009, 07:35 PM Go to last post

  4. Found on road verge

    Started by menace, 13th April 2009 06:22 PM
    100mm, 25mm, 60mm, 95%, ago, aprox, destroyed, grooves, hard, info, jarrah, legs, menace, movie, paint, poker, rails, remove, removed, rid, road, soaked, table, top, verge, weeks, wood
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,716
    toolbagsPLUS
    14th April 2009, 08:45 AM Go to last post

  5. Help please with damaged tabletop

    Started by terriqld, 8th April 2009 09:57 PM
    2x4, advice, bare, beautiful, damaged, eaten, forum, guys, marks, paint, polyurethane, recall, recently, recoating, resanding, restore, spilled, stripper, table, tabletop, terri, terrific, time, totally, wood, wooden
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 2,912
    Skew ChiDAMN!!
    13th April 2009, 01:38 PM Go to last post

  6. Moved: Repairing an old workbench - Part I - Wood grubs

    Started by Theodor, 9th April 2009 02:10 AM
    grubs, repairing, wood, workbench
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  7. Restore or not, is this worth it?

    Started by munruben, 20th July 2008 11:21 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    1940, ago, difficult, friend, furniture, idea, makes, picture, question, restore, restoring, style, tells, timber, weeks, worth
    • Replies: 27
    • Views: 5,976
    astrid
    1st April 2009, 11:19 PM Go to last post

  8. restoring an old Queensland maple-rimmu wardrobe

    Started by lilon, 29th March 2009 08:28 PM
    50x30mm, admit, antique, apply, crazy, depth, frame, glossy, gluing-screwing, hard, maple, maplerimmu, matt, nice, non-glossy, oil, options, pieces, queensland, restoring, retain, rimmu, sanded, shelacing, strong, suggestions, tricky, varnish, volvox, wardrobe
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,313
    lilon
    31st March 2009, 01:06 PM Go to last post

  9. Renewing Shellac Top

    Started by Doug Hobkirk, 15th March 2009 10:17 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    0000, brush, crinkled, dna, dye, edge, forum, front, light, lightened, mahogoney, original, pictures, piece, plan, red, refinish, renewing, residue, scratches, sealcoat, shellac, slightly, spots, stain, surface, top, white, wood, zinzer
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 4,813
    astrid
    25th March 2009, 09:27 PM Go to last post

  10. French Polish

    Started by hap97, 25th March 2009 06:04 PM
    background, basic, beginners, created, discussion, french, hilton, information, link, method, page, polish, polishing, shellac, simple, starting, wiki, woodies
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,631
    hap97
    25th March 2009, 06:04 PM Go to last post

  11. 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: 4,395
    AlexS
    22nd March 2009, 11:49 AM Go to last post

  12. painted furniture yuk!!!!!!!!!!!

    Started by chowcini, 19th February 2009 07:53 PM
    cheers, crackling, experience, faux, finish, friend, furniture, matter, painted, pine, tone, wondering, yuk
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,066
    Horsecroft88
    19th March 2009, 01:32 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: 3,259
    Afro Boy
    13th March 2009, 06:43 PM Go to last post

  14. Redwood Bookshelf ideas

    Started by nrand, 5th March 2009 09:55 PM
    advice, ago, appreciated, bookshelf, borer, bottom, bring, building, edges, evidence, experience, fairly, finish, gift, govt, hand, ideas, material, panel, plane, purchased, redwood, repair, rest, shape, shelves, square, stuff, thinking, unit
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,991
    astrid
    10th March 2009, 05:44 PM Go to last post

  15. what can i do with this?

    Started by astrid, 7th March 2009 01:10 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    bellows, betterer, bits, carvedtimber, close, converting, fancy, figure, fretwork, furniture, ideas, inventive, item, junk, knobs, life, mines, mouldings, music, nice, pieces, plaster, resale, sentimantal, shot, stop, thinking, throw, tip, usless
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 3,139
    astrid
    9th March 2009, 05:50 PM Go to last post

  16. What wood is this?

    Started by bellyup, 6th March 2009 02:58 PM
    bring, bruce, dimensional, feed, ferreting, found, green-waste/tip, guys, lathe, life, original, pics, rails, replace, suitable, table, timber, timbers, top, water, wood
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 1,920
    bellyup
    7th March 2009, 02:59 PM Go to last post

  17. Question Question about a Cedar chest

    Started by johnnie52, 9th February 2009 06:09 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    120, advice, basis, bumps, cedar, chest, create, finish, florida, heat, hoping, humidity, idea, justice, lacquer, mess, offer, piece, plan, polyurethane, proper, question, refinish, regular, restorers, seasoned, shed, storage, strippers, wood
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 8,411
    toolbagsPLUS
    2nd March 2009, 09:13 AM Go to last post

  18. Question Chest of drawers as a starter

    Started by Chriller, 30th September 2008 03:30 PM
    advice, bit, build, chest, chris, cupboards, drawers, handles, hear, ideas, inlaid, life, love, mother, novice, pearl, picture, pictures, restorations, restoring, result, start, starter, thinking, white
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 4,073
    chippy 71
    23rd February 2009, 11:44 PM Go to last post

  19. River red gum

    Started by Ron Booth, 19th February 2009 12:52 PM
    100x100, bay, blackmans, booth, grained, gum, red, river, ron, sizes, supplier, tasmania, x1000mm
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,099
    toolbagsPLUS
    20th February 2009, 04:10 PM Go to last post

  20. How to unwarp?

    Started by valiant_freak, 12th February 2009 10:02 AM
    ages, belongs, cheers, chicken, condition, drawer, drawers, fix, fixed, fixing, furniture, hand, job, level, noticable, piece, pieces, planing, poor, ryan, shed, spend, surfaces, tackle, time, unwarp, upper, warpage, warped, weather
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 9,590
    valiant_freak
    16th February 2009, 09:58 AM Go to last post

  21. Thumbs down Old Radio Case

    Started by Magpie1908, 22nd January 2009 04:47 PM
    bring, built, case, clean, condition, day, dirt, dirty, don’t, found, intend, question, radio, speaker, tip, valves, veneer, wood
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 3,124
    willy3486
    12th February 2009, 11:43 PM Go to last post

  22. Veneer and finish damage to old wardrobe

    Started by mikm, 9th February 2009 05:41 PM
    addressed, appreciated, cheers, concerned, cracked, crazed, damage, doors.jpg, edges, finish, future, greatly, handles, hanging, horizontal, kids, light, lines, mick, middle, picture, raised, removed, shirt, space, suggestions, toddlers, top, veneer, wardrobe
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 3,831
    mikm
    10th February 2009, 03:37 PM Go to last post

  23. restoration and goo

    Started by the Padma, 30th December 2008 12:38 PM
    bear, blessings, built, called, chairs, cracks, dudes, epoxy, family, fix, glue, goo, grand, haffta, heirloom, hide, loose, mind, padma, re-glued, restoration, restoring, road, son, sorta, suggest, type, ummm, wanna, white
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 3,266
    ubeaut
    4th February 2009, 08:49 PM Go to last post

  24. Maintaining and restoration a 10 year old veneer kitchen

    Started by synoangel, 4th January 2009 11:32 AM
    appreciated, bunnings, daniel, diy, faiding, glue, heat, iron, issue, jarrah, kitchen, learning, limited, maintaining, minor, novice, post, presuming, purchased, quickly, range, re-applying, recently, restoration, shop, specialist, tips, tricks, veneer, year
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,831
    mikm
    3rd February 2009, 08:09 PM Go to last post

  25. Post Rifle Stock Issue

    Started by Gate7, 28th January 2009 09:02 PM
    barrel, butt, cloth, damp, deep, floated, gate7, guys, hot, ideas, iron, issue, marks, pic, remove, removed, rifle, riflestock, stock, varnish
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,539
    Woodlee
    29th January 2009, 08:24 PM Go to last post

  26. Unhappy Repairing Wooden chairs

    Started by QbnDusty, 6th October 2008 08:39 PM
    animal, appreciated, bar, breakfast, chair, chairs, cleaned, experts, filling, fix, friction, gap, glue, glueing, gravity, held, joints, looser, manufacture, modern, pva, remember, repairing, required, type, wobbly, wooden
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 5,265
    old pete
    21st January 2009, 06:45 PM Go to last post

  27. Fixing a tassie oak jacobean chair

    Started by trrac, 16th January 2009 12:46 PM
    90-100, advice, appreciated, barley, central, chair, coast, cracked, fixing, hobbyists, jacobean, leant, length, nsw, oak, photos, pin, professionally, project, repaired, retired, steel, strongly, suggested, tassie, times, twist, type, wood, workers
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,816
    astrid
    17th January 2009, 08:16 PM Go to last post

  28. Smile Learning Restoration??? Need help!!

    Started by thebooss20, 17th September 2008 06:35 PM
    antiques, direction, doncast, drive, guys, joined, lead, learning, live, melbourne, nad, restorating, restoration, short, wondering
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 3,831
    CuriousBird
    12th January 2009, 07:47 PM Go to last post

  29. 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: 2,146
    toolbagsPLUS
    10th January 2009, 10:14 AM Go to last post

  30. Sanding back out stain flecks...need help

    Started by kekemo, 6th January 2009 04:37 PM
    baltic, cloth, collection, colour, concern, cut, deeper, easier, effectively, flecks, flecksneed, furniture, grain, inside, kekemo, kerry, lace, masterpiece, overly, raise, remove, sand, sanding, shalac, sincerely, stain, surface, table, times, wood
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,798
    kekemo
    6th January 2009, 04:37 PM Go to last post

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