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  1. creating effective stains from pigments

    Started by old_picker, 18th January 2015 10:56 AM
    creating, effective, pigments, stains 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 11
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    old_picker
    20th April 2015, 09:32 AM Go to last post

  2. 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
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    Jabbagutt
    22nd January 2010, 07:40 AM Go to last post

  3. 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
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    Horsecroft88
    26th June 2009, 03:02 PM Go to last post

  4. 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
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    bellyup
    7th March 2009, 02:59 PM Go to last post

  5. Question getting in to those curved ,tricky places.

    Started by hawburn, 9th September 2010 11:11 AM
    adverse, attraction, barley, business, curved, dining, dremel, easier, hard, labourious, love, meantime, oak, ornate, owner, people, piling, places, professionals, sand, sandpaper, secret, setting, silky, stay, surely, tools, tricky, type
    • Replies: 11
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    munruben
    25th October 2010, 08:35 AM Go to last post

  6. distressed timber coffee table repair

    Started by LGW1, 14th December 2015 01:58 AM
    5 Attachment(s)
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    Christos
    24th December 2015, 02:52 PM Go to last post

  7. what is this timber

    Started by hughie, 10th September 2016 10:18 PM
    7 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 11
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    wood spirit
    22nd July 2017, 07:09 PM Go to last post

  8. 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
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    burraboy
    31st January 2010, 08:43 PM Go to last post

  9. new find, dresser, inside 1929

    Started by silky oak man, 12th July 2010 10:31 PM
    ,had, 1929, bit, charters, company, day, draw, dresser, fix, front, hard, inside, isa, job, lay, left, life, missing, mount, paint, pattern, quick, start, taking, time, top, towers, trouble, wrote
    • Replies: 11
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    allison-
    20th August 2010, 03:26 PM Go to last post

  10. 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
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    willy3486
    12th February 2009, 11:43 PM Go to last post

  11. 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
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    chippy 71
    23rd February 2009, 11:44 PM Go to last post

  12. Interesting old desk

    Started by Thumbthumper, 15th July 2020 12:09 PM
    29 Attachment(s)
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    Xanthorrhoeas
    10th September 2020, 02:26 PM Go to last post

  13. 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
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    rsser
    27th January 2010, 02:48 PM Go to last post

  14. A Lighthouse Keepers Cabinet

    Started by auscab, 6th May 2018 12:14 PM
    7 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 11
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    Enfield Guy
    4th June 2018, 10:29 PM Go to last post

  15. Mid Century Laminate??

    Started by Sienna, 9th December 2015 09:32 AM
    9 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 11
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    artme
    12th December 2015, 05:54 PM Go to last post

  16. 70's Estapol removal from furniture--Help!

    Started by another_sandra, 13th August 2009 09:03 AM
    70s, antique, beautiful, chests, coated, dark, difficult, drawers, england, estapol, estapoland, estapoll, furniture, furniture--help, furniturehelp, glory, hand, horrid, inherited, match, pieces, removal, remove, restoration, restoring, sandra, stuff, told, unfortuantely, wood
    • Replies: 11
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    nrb
    3rd October 2012, 01:51 PM Go to last post

  17. Restoring a table that's been through... a lot

    Started by Scott_R, 14th April 2022 12:59 AM
    11 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 11
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    homey
    29th April 2022, 07:12 PM Go to last post

  18. Upcycling to display cabinet/bookcase

    Started by Blackout, 11th May 2018 09:42 AM
    5 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 10
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    Blackout
    19th May 2018, 07:28 AM Go to last post

  19. 1956 Dining table

    Started by Dsut, 29th September 2020 02:05 AM
    8 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 10
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    wood spirit
    5th October 2020, 04:48 PM Go to last post

  20. Chinese lacquered cabinet

    Started by fletty, 4th July 2018 05:07 PM
    11 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 10
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    q9
    22nd November 2018, 06:02 PM Go to last post

  21. Furniture restoration questions

    Started by Wood Collector, 9th August 2015 01:47 PM
    5 Attachment(s)
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    Xanthorrhoeas
    17th August 2015, 05:35 PM Go to last post

  22. Help: Amateur restoring old bureau

    Started by JackarooAus, 13th February 2019 10:36 PM
    10 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 10
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    auscab
    20th February 2019, 05:21 PM Go to last post

  23. Restoration of art Nouveau stand

    Started by Dukebox, 20th January 2013 08:15 PM
    art, bowed, carvings, finally, finish, guys, ideas, included, insight, justice, leg, nouveau, original, paint, pictures, progress, project, pulled, remove, restoration, slightly, stand, start, starting, stripper, tackle, tha, thinners, timber, view
    • Replies: 10
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    Bespoken
    23rd March 2014, 06:22 PM Go to last post

  24. Restoring cast iron lion's head

    Started by RedShirtGuy, 2nd July 2011 06:16 PM
    1876, bare, bit, bolt, bring, brush/dremel, cast, clean, details, head, iron, join, life, lion, lions, metal, pieces, protected, quick, remove, restoring, run, rust, rusting, shine, station, treatment, update, wheel, wire
    • Replies: 10
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    Buzza
    22nd July 2011, 09:33 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
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    astrid
    15th August 2008, 10:57 AM Go to last post

  26. One Before The Landfill

    Started by Christos, 26th April 2017 06:51 AM
    6 Attachment(s)
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    wood spirit
    22nd July 2017, 06:16 PM Go to last post

  27. 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

  28. Art Deco chairs - serious restoration job

    Started by Antipodes, 12th August 2012 09:46 PM
    ago, art, chairs, coils, comments, couple, deco, easy, french, idea, inside, job, jute, material, picked, practice, problematic, re-lacquered, re-upholstering, re-veneering, renovation, restoration, stuff, sydney, thinking, totally, underneath, upholstery, veneer, webbing
    • Replies: 10
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    fudo133
    20th November 2012, 10:28 PM Go to last post

  29. 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
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    Afro Boy
    13th March 2009, 06:43 PM Go to last post

  30. Chair restoration advice

    Started by Beardy, 11th October 2020 09:14 AM
    4 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 821
    5c077
    2nd December 2020, 01:59 PM Go to last post

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