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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. 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: 3,140
    astrid
    9th March 2009, 05:50 PM Go to last post

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  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
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    lilon
    31st March 2009, 01:06 PM Go to last post

  9. 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

  10. 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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  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Moved: Converting an old pine cupboard

    Started by mic-d, 22nd April 2009 03:19 PM
    converting, cupboard, pine
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  15. 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: 6,486
    jaywit
    24th April 2009, 11:46 PM Go to last post

  16. I need some assistance please!

    Started by KateHayes, 30th April 2009 12:32 PM
    $100, assistance, bits, cabinet, call, cheap, coffee, curved, cut, edges, factory, hand, handmade, information, light, lock, metal, nowadays, paid, ragged, sand, sharp, stain, straight, strip, suppose, table, type, wood, worried
    • Replies: 2
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    KateHayes
    30th April 2009, 01:16 PM Go to last post

  17. beard1747

    Started by beard1747, 25th April 2009 12:16 PM
    1937, approx, beard1747, bottom, brown, chocolate, color, colour;however, dark, finish, gday, glossy, grain, light, material, moulding, radio, renew, scalpel;, scratch, seen;, shellac, slats, speaker, timber, top, valve
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 1,911
    watson
    30th April 2009, 08:25 PM Go to last post

  18. Stain removal advice - maple veneer Sideboard/Bar.

    Started by Tikirocker, 7th May 2009 02:44 AM
    acid, advance, advice, based, damp, deeper, final, fine, finish, guide, ink, maple, oxalic, read, red, removal, remove, risk, rubbing, shellac, sideboard, sideboard or bar, solid, spirit, stage, stain, steel, tiki, veneer, wool
    • Replies: 3
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    Tikirocker
    8th May 2009, 07:25 PM Go to last post

  19. restoring an old silky oak table

    Started by redcharger, 3rd May 2009 09:16 PM
    black, bought, colour, grain, heck, method, mike, oak, partially, photos, restoring, sanding, silky, strip, stripped/sanded, table, tomorrow, trouble, wood
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 10,278
    hap97
    10th May 2009, 06:46 PM Go to last post

  20. restoring old desk

    Started by suzanne, 29th May 2009 05:44 PM
    bottam, cupboard, curved, desk, doors, drop, fixing, glass, lid, lifted, oil, restoring, scandinavian, suitable, suzanne, veneer, writing
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,059
    suzanne
    2nd June 2009, 08:50 PM Go to last post

  21. hidden treasures

    Started by Swifty, 5th June 2009 01:30 PM
    320, ago, bothered, carnauba, cheers, coat, coats, coffee, finish, finished, hidden, indonesian, legs, lower, original, planed, result, resurfaced, sanded, sanding, similar, stripped, table, teak, top, tops, treasures, treatment, wax, wipe-on-poly
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,513
    ColW
    5th June 2009, 05:32 PM Go to last post

  22. 1939 writing desk -english oak

    Started by chowcini, 10th June 2009 06:58 PM
    1939, ??i, coming, desk, english, involves, job, ladies/secretary, oak, phots, post, receieve, sourcing, timber, writing
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,015
    chowcini
    10th June 2009, 06:58 PM Go to last post

  23. What's wrong with this antique?

    Started by griffibo, 4th May 2009 01:12 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    advice, ages, antique, appreciated, bit, biting, bonnie, cabinet, condition, description, display, ebay, expect, expensive, gorgeous, mahogany, people, perfect, pretty, putting, restoration, satinwood, sell, told, wrong
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 4,232
    rrobor
    14th June 2009, 02:32 PM Go to last post

  24. great grandfather's cigar box

    Started by bassmansimon, 10th December 2008 09:24 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    base, basic, beginner, black, box, cigar, destroyed, easy, estapol, finish, girlfriends, grandfather, grandfathers, great, hinges, inside, judging, lots, moment, nice, quick, restore, screws, simon, step, stuff, top, white, wood, worth
    • Replies: 17
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    bassmansimon
    20th June 2009, 01:07 AM Go to last post

  25. MDF Board and Asbestos Cancer

    Started by Gidyea, 23rd June 2009 12:50 AM
    asbestos, board, brother, cancer, cheerz, dust, fate, mdf, myth, similar, suffer, told, true, valued
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 7,782
    soundman
    23rd June 2009, 11:59 AM Go to last post

  26. Need Help with Dresser Details - please

    Started by denidownunder, 21st June 2009 03:05 PM
    appreciated, attention, bought, date/period, details, dresser, dressing, expect, forum, greatly, hoping, house, ian, idea, knowledge, love, post, question, sell, table, timber, type
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 1,861
    Horsecroft88
    26th June 2009, 03:02 PM Go to last post

  27. Exposed timber beams & T&G flooring

    Started by Aussie_guy00000, 2nd July 2009 02:22 PM
    2tsup, apply, appreciated, beams, bearers, bit, ceiling, downstairs, exposed, fibro, floor, flooring, forums, greatly, home, ideally, ideas, lacquer, lot, love, moment, piccy, planning, post, sanded, t&g, tandg, timber, underside, wood
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,288
    Aussie_guy00000
    2nd July 2009, 02:22 PM Go to last post

  28. Need help restoring lounge

    Started by NewLou, 4th July 2009 04:59 PM
    advise, appreciated, aware, called, coushins, fellas, foam, hey, located, lou, lounge, replacing, restoring, retensioning, roped, simply, straps, tensioning, tips, tricks, tuneup, uncomfortable, underneath, webbing
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,122
    NewLou
    4th July 2009, 04:59 PM Go to last post

  29. 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
    Allison
    5th July 2009, 09:32 PM Go to last post

  30. Restoring table - way out of depth??????

    Started by Not Waving, 4th July 2009 06:03 PM
    advice, character, crack, depth, deteriorated, dining, door, equipment, experience, filler, floors, forums, job, lisa, looked, lots, love, odd, planed, professional, remove, requiring, restoring, ridiculously, sanded, table, wondering, wood, woodpeople, worth
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,136
    hap97
    6th July 2009, 06:02 PM Go to last post
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