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  1. Australian cedar?

    Started by bellyup, 19th December 2008 03:46 PM
    advice, advise, antique, appears, australian, cedar, close, coloured, construction, dealers, edwardian, found, golden, grained, guys, hall/writing, late, legs, pale, replace, replacement, suitable, table, timber, tip, top, variation, victorian, wood
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 3,009
    bellyup
    3rd January 2009, 05:58 PM Go to last post

  2. 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: 1,811
    masoth
    14th December 2008, 07:05 AM Go to last post

  3. Looking for supplier of Queensland Maple Veneer

    Started by berntd, 9th December 2008 03:00 PM
    $100, bernt, buy, existing, goind, gramophone, handselecting, land, maple, match, option, piece, plain, plywood, proper, queensland, restore, shop, specialised, struggling, stuff, supplier, suppliers, surely, sydney, type, vast, veneer, venner, wood
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 4,327
    tea lady
    10th December 2008, 10:58 PM Go to last post

  4. Talking help with buffet identification

    Started by deanne mudford, 6th December 2008 02:16 PM
    1950, alex, appreciated, attached, bottom, buffet, cheers, date, deanne, drawer, drawers, european, faintly, federal, identification, identifying, inside, labour, manufactured, photos, piece, pre, printed, read, restored, stamp, stamped, tarted, understanding, veneer
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,456
    deanne mudford
    7th December 2008, 10:48 PM Go to last post

  5. couple of questions on old chair

    Started by JDarvall, 1st December 2008 09:11 PM
    belted, bending, bit, chair, clever, couple, feel, fix, hang, history, home, hoping, jake, kindly, layed, lines, mildly, nice, pictures, print, pulled, questions, quickly, soft, sound, stamp, steamer, thinking, wall, weathered
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 4,507
    JDarvall
    2nd December 2008, 06:55 PM Go to last post

  6. triangular shaped sanding pads

    Started by JDarvall, 28th November 2008 08:48 PM
    adjecent, avoiding, blokes, board, careful, cleaning, corners, dissemble, edge, festool, focusing, grooving, ideally, imagine, moment, necessarily, noticed, orbi, pad, pads, piece, prefer, restoring, sanding, sandpaper, shaped, tool, totally, triangluar, triangular
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 3,136
    JDarvall
    29th November 2008, 10:15 PM Go to last post

  7. Rotten End Grain

    Started by MikeT, 13th October 2008 08:40 AM
    cheers, damaged, deck, decking, end, feet, fill, fine, furniture, grain, grooves, installed, mike, oil, oiling, pic, pine, prevent, product, protection, raisers, rotten, runs, soaking, standing, suspect, timber, varnished, water, weather
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 5,026
    jimbur
    23rd November 2008, 10:37 AM Go to last post

  8. Extension table leaves

    Started by bunkerbill, 13th November 2008 04:30 PM
    1.22m, advice, alternative, bought, cheaper, colour, expensive, extension, extension table, ideally, leaves, live, mahogany, manly, match, material, north, nsw, solid, stain, suggestions, table, top, viable, wide
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 3,262
    astrid
    20th November 2008, 09:23 PM Go to last post

  9. Is this table worth restoring?

    Started by steck, 18th August 2008 11:42 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    1930s, bit, brown, called, color, dark, edge, hinged, ideas, job, lifting, light, lighter, metho, original, painted, produced, restore, restoring, rubbing, runs, sample, scuff, table, tackle, told, top, veneer, wood, worth
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 5,354
    Andrew_B
    18th November 2008, 09:55 PM Go to last post

  10. Best stripper you can buy?

    Started by stevenf, 9th November 2008 05:33 AM
    4-5, alot, amazing, ammount, buy, chairs, drum, entire, furniture, gallon, hook, hose, hours, internet, left, managing, pump, refinish, repair, shop, squirt, started, strip, stripper, stuff, time, tough, van, water
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 5,259
    astrid
    11th November 2008, 11:05 PM Go to last post

  11. Chair Identification

    Started by hap97, 12th July 2008 07:56 PM
    australian, cedar, central, chair, chairs, cushion, decade, dowel, front, hap97, identification, identify, imported, period, style, supported, varies
    • Replies: 10
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    astrid
    4th November 2008, 08:05 PM Go to last post

  12. Advice on restoring a blackbean credenza/sideboard

    Started by ramilio, 21st September 2008 02:41 PM
    1960s, advice, applying, appreciated, attached, blackbean, crack, credenza, credenza or sideboard, credenza/sideboard, current, finish, flash, glossy, greatly, guessing, help/advice, novice, oiled, paul, photos, restoring, sanding, sideboard, total, veneer, wondering, wood
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 3,219
    seriph1
    1st November 2008, 01:19 PM Go to last post

  13. Removing old putty from windows

    Started by Dengue, 14th July 2008 07:11 PM
    200, chip, chisel, difficult, door, glass, hardened, holding, jill, neatly, oak, panels, plastic, putty, pvc, remove, removing, silky, size, skips, smell, suggest, tedious, timber, tough, windows, x200
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 12,314
    spoinky
    31st October 2008, 09:45 PM Go to last post

  14. restoring veneered cabinet

    Started by AndrewPatrol, 16th August 2008 10:46 PM
    accepted, andrew, apply, bubbled, cabinet, challenge, cloth, damp, display, feasable, glue, gratefully, iron, lifted, moments, plan, position, pva, question, reheated, repaired, restoring, sit, sound, tackled, veneer, veneered, warm, weight, wet
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,969
    AndrewPatrol
    25th October 2008, 07:06 PM Go to last post

  15. Remove Proof Tint from Bone inlay

    Started by LaurieY, 8th October 2008 09:45 PM
    antique, bed, bleach, bone, chinese, inlay, marriage, proof, red, remove, restoring, stain, suggestions, tint, wood
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,863
    astrid
    9th October 2008, 04:31 PM Go to last post

  16. Wanted ANTIQUE ANGLE BRACKETS

    Started by doctorpaul, 3rd October 2008 08:52 PM
    advice, angle, antique, avail, bed, brackets, brass, chunky, finishing, googling, iron, mother, pearl, poster, replies, sons, strap, wanted, wrought
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,320
    doctorpaul
    3rd October 2008, 08:52 PM Go to last post

  17. Beldray Brass/Copper Vase

    Started by David Mitchell, 12th September 2008 05:13 PM
    /copper, anticipation, beldray, brass, brass or copper, brass/copper, david, information, restoring, vase, vases
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 4,366
    AJ
    29th September 2008, 09:44 PM Go to last post

  18. some sample of restoration work

    Started by chris_77, 17th September 2008 08:12 AM
    album, hallo, it.cheers, link, pictures, restoration, sample, work, work.hope
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,668
    chris_77
    17th September 2008, 08:55 AM Go to last post

  19. Old pommy furniture

    Started by back yarder, 24th July 2008 09:19 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    advise, ago, appreciated, ash, bench, chairs, clean, complex, england, european, furniture, greatly, idea, imo, job, joints, lathe, leg, loose, matching, migrated, mum, pommy, pull, reassemble, rods, spin, timber, vertical, wood
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 7,135
    jimbur
    12th September 2008, 03:54 PM Go to last post

  20. Cutlery Chest

    Started by Cruzi, 14th July 2008 05:37 PM
    aid, ammo, arguement, beautiful, brass, bulk, cabinet, chest, contruction, convert, cutlery, decided, destroy, dovetails, drawers, explained, features, finer, finished, history, inlaid, inspection, lot, original, paint, picked, restoration, screaming, tool, utterly
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,444
    astrid
    1st September 2008, 10:06 PM Go to last post

  21. Cracks in veneer

    Started by Maqua, 29th August 2008 11:04 AM
    1870s, advice, bedside, burr-walnut, chest, claimed, close, cracking, cracks, deterioration, drawers, english, evidence, fine, lifting, possibly, prevent, purchased, slight, suggestions, treat, veneer, visually
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 2,469
    prozac
    1st September 2008, 11:39 AM Go to last post

  22. Sympathetic resto burl walnut

    Started by Stuey63, 20th August 2008 04:02 PM
    0000, basically, built, burl, burning, cheers, clean, cleaned, cloth, decent, french, grime, guy, hand, linseed, metho, oil, pad, piano, polish, resto, steel, stuey, suggested, sympathetic, turps, veneer, walnut, warned, wool
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,087
    astrid
    25th August 2008, 09:52 PM Go to last post

  23. Removing floor polish from carving

    Started by SkirlGHB, 18th August 2008 03:25 PM
    aged, ago, anticipation, carved, carving, coats, dark, detail, english, floor, floorpolish, forcing, grain, ideas, m-i-l, method, methods, non-nechanical, oak, patina, polish, polished, preserve, previous, removing, revealed, ross, search, sideboard, threads
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,768
    joe greiner
    18th August 2008, 08:26 PM Go to last post

  24. Old hand pump

    Started by lordnelson, 17th August 2008 11:38 PM
    amazingly, attached, elements, found, garden, hand, mount, photo, property, protect, pump, suggestions
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,643
    lordnelson
    17th August 2008, 11:38 PM Go to last post

  25. 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: 2,605
    astrid
    15th August 2008, 10:57 AM Go to last post

  26. Ink stains

    Started by back yarder, 6th August 2008 03:08 PM
    elm, ink, oak, product, stains, wood
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,271
    back yarder
    8th August 2008, 08:29 PM Go to last post

  27. Finish on old cocktail cabinet

    Started by Shiba, 1st June 2008 02:49 PM
    advice/help, art, bought, cabinet, chipped, cocktail, curved, display, drop, edge, finish, forum, front, glass, inside, lifted, mirrors, move, novice, questions, reading, realise, repair, repaired, shiba, sort, tape, top, varnish, veneer
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 3,712
    astrid
    7th August 2008, 10:47 PM Go to last post

  28. Silky Oak damaged by Brasso

    Started by Dengue, 30th July 2008 06:56 PM
    advise, box, brass, brasso, damaged, effort, frame, glass, grain, infill, inherited, jill, lamp, marking, normal, oak, overlapped, past, polish, rag, residue, restore, rubbing, ships, silky, similiar, timber, tiny, type, white
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,501
    Woodlee
    31st July 2008, 11:14 PM Go to last post

  29. What do you call this?

    Started by Waznme, 20th July 2008 03:27 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    ago, attach, call, couch, difficult, game, gday, grandparents-in-law, inherited, lessen, photos, restore, thingo, waz, wife
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 5,850
    Bloss
    21st July 2008, 11:45 AM Go to last post

  30. de rusting really rusty iron

    Started by astrid, 26th April 2008 11:14 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    astrid, badly, branding, bunch, cans, corroded, cream, deeply, display, farm, hand, iron, irons, pitted, planes, presentable, purposes, recovered, rusting, rusty, stuff, sythes, thingys
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 5,491
    Bob38S
    18th July 2008, 12:59 PM Go to last post

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