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  1. Cutler Rolltop - basic restoration questions

    Started by Fred_, 25th May 2011 09:58 AM
    basic, blotter, bring, colour, company, cosmetic, cutler, desk, drawer, equivalent, feel, fit, fitted, inlay, leather, local, mind, modern, questions, raw, recommendations, required, restoration, rolltop, square, surface, timber, time, top, touch
    • Replies: 0
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    Fred_
    25th May 2011, 09:58 AM Go to last post

  2. Red cedar meat safe - farm shed find

    Started by Blackout, 20th May 2018 08:34 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    24 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 18
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    Blackout
    8th July 2018, 07:21 PM Go to last post

  3. Buggy Restoration

    Started by David Mitchell, 17th May 2011 10:58 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    35.cool, 930, ago, buggy, buggywink, complete, david, dia, forward, local, missing, mitchell2tsup, museum, request, restoration, taxi, volunteer, wheel
    • Replies: 19
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    Stewey
    29th May 2011, 06:56 PM Go to last post

  4. Question Silky Oak Wardrobe Restoration Question

    Started by Earthling#44-9a, 1st May 2010 06:44 PM
    added, age, ages, attention, colour, darken, definetly, folk, light, lighter, naturally, non-varnished, normal, notice, oak, photo, pigment, question, restoration, roughly, sanded, sanding, section, silky, spot, stained, varnish, varnished, wardrobe, wood
    • Replies: 8
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    silky oak man
    12th July 2010, 09:47 PM Go to last post

  5. Timber etched pictures from 1988 need help please

    Started by Romana, 30th November 2017 05:57 PM
    5 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 10
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    ubeaut
    9th December 2017, 09:47 AM Go to last post

  6. bad, bad resto

    Started by Clinton1, 30th July 2010 11:17 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    $50, antique, bad, brass, cabinet, cabriole, colour, cost, coverings, customer, decided, door, fabric, fitting, highly, legs, paid, piece, pierced, piercings, professional, refitted, repairs, resto, restoring, service, stripped, structural, stuffed, worth
    • Replies: 29
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    robbo266317
    29th November 2010, 07:59 PM Go to last post

  7. Did I ruin my finish? Drexel Declaration Walnut Table

    Started by probability, 27th August 2009 03:32 PM
    advance, amount, ample, and--, beautiful, change, darker, declaration, disappears, drexel, finish, half, harder, hopefully--, instant, patch, penance, placemats, pour, pressure, raf, results, return, ring, ruin, steel, table, walnut, wipe, wool
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 4,574
    hap97
    27th August 2009, 06:50 PM Go to last post

  8. Mid century recliner chairs

    Started by Blackout, 7th January 2019 09:17 PM
    20 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 12
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    Gammaboy
    5th March 2019, 03:15 PM Go to last post

  9. 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
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    JDarvall
    2nd December 2008, 06:55 PM Go to last post

  10. Silky oak side board rescue out of order

    Started by Blackout, 31st March 2018 06:53 AM
    3 Pages •
    1 2 3
    21 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 33
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    Blackout
    29th April 2018, 09:52 PM Go to last post

  11. Atnique Table Restoration

    Started by Mem Wright, 8th November 2009 06:08 PM
    2 Pages •
    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
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    stuffy
    14th December 2009, 01:09 AM Go to last post

  12. Wooden Wool Table

    Started by nicolep, 18th April 2011 01:06 PM
    advance, appears, brush, clean, clearing, covered, floors, included, initally, oil, purchased, recently, restoration, sale, seal, slats, soapy, stericide, suggestions, table, thick, top, type, warm, water, wax, wooden, wool, woolshed, x1.5m
    • Replies: 2
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    specialist
    26th April 2011, 01:37 PM Go to last post

  13. Old Cedar Box

    Started by double.d, 23rd January 2018 07:56 PM
    • Replies: 4
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    artme
    26th January 2018, 10:27 AM Go to last post

  14. stripping wood veneer

    Started by Blueberry, 21st September 2009 07:55 PM
    account, add, bubbled, check, cracked, dresser, dressing, finish, forums, fumes, idea, ideas, metho, patio, photobucket, photos, prob, progressu, scape, scraper, shellac, steel, strip, stripping, suspect, toxic, unsure, veneer, wood, wool
    • Replies: 3
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    Blueberry
    21st September 2009, 09:54 PM Go to last post

  15. A new project - plus pleasant surprise

    Started by Thumbthumper, 27th June 2011 12:30 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    bubbling, cabinet, call, cedar, chair, dark, delivered, friend, glue, home, joints, label, leg, lenehan, lovely, personally, pic, pleasant, pot, project, re-glue, rebuild, restoration, restore, surprise, sydney, time, told, top, upholstery 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 18
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    sanhui
    13th April 2012, 01:59 PM Go to last post

  16. 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
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    AlexS
    22nd March 2009, 11:49 AM 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
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    AJ
    29th September 2008, 09:44 PM Go to last post

  18. Wicker chair, more a repair?

    Started by fletty, 26th July 2016 07:25 PM
    3 Pages •
    1 2 3
    21 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 42
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    wood spirit
    22nd July 2017, 07:18 PM Go to last post

  19. 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

  20. 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
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    tea lady
    10th December 2008, 10:58 PM Go to last post

  21. Another spinning wheel repair

    Started by arose62, 12th June 2019 11:15 PM
    23 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 9
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    auscab
    4th August 2019, 03:28 PM Go to last post

  22. Cedar food cabinet

    Started by Thumbthumper, 15th April 2015 03:46 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    cabinet, cedar, food 51 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 17
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    Thumbthumper
    4th May 2015, 11:07 PM Go to last post

  23. 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: 4,315
    munruben
    29th January 2010, 08:02 AM Go to last post

  24. Restoration of a Mahogany Victorian Gents Chair

    Started by auscab, 14th December 2017 10:49 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    26 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 21
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    Xanthorrhoeas
    25th December 2017, 07:29 PM Go to last post

  25. Drink ring water stain removal.

    Started by Shedhand, 12th October 2018 09:47 PM
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 4,237
    Shedhand
    16th November 2018, 03:56 PM Go to last post

  26. Put-U-Up

    Started by Ozcee, 18th August 2018 01:55 PM
    • Replies: 3
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    Rodneywt1180b
    4th September 2018, 10:39 AM Go to last post

  27. 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
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    rrobor
    14th June 2009, 02:32 PM Go to last post

  28. ANOTHER antique chair repair!

    Started by fletty, 9th August 2017 10:27 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    26 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 4,204
    rustynail
    2nd October 2017, 04:40 PM Go to last post

  29. 18th century Japanese 'kuruma tansu" wheeled chest restoration

    Started by fudo133, 24th November 2012 10:56 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    10cm, 11cm, 17cm, 242105, bottom, bought, chest, continue, cypress, doors, frame, front, furniture, hinoki, japanese, keyaki, larger, moment, piece, restoration, roughly, sections, serrata, slats, square, thinnest, wheeled, wheels, widest, zelkova 59 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 4,194
    fudo133
    17th May 2013, 01:14 AM Go to last post

  30. Restoration of an antique Work Bench.

    Started by rogerjenkins, 15th August 2011 10:09 PM
    ancient, antique, bench, choice, cleaners, descriptive, doubt, eyes, heaps, heavy, idiot, item, junk, original, peoples, photos, piece, rain, restoration, roger, saves, scrubbing, sun, taking, throw, time, way.u, words, work
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 4,121
    rogerjenkins
    21st April 2012, 10:13 AM Go to last post
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