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  1. Baltic/Oregon Table

    Started by Latlong, 8th July 2010 05:41 PM
    baltic, baltic or oregon, baltic/oregon, consuming, cut, durability, finish, job, legs, love, mate, oils, option, oregon, planks, rail, rails, running, satin, sentimental, spray, support, supports, t&g, table, thinking, time, top, tops, wonky
    • Replies: 0
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    Latlong
    8th July 2010, 05:41 PM Go to last post

  2. 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
    • Views: 4,618
    silky oak man
    12th July 2010, 09:47 PM Go to last post

  3. Strange drawer

    Started by AlexS, 14th December 2009 07:25 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    aus, bottom, bureau, cedar, closed, common, drawer, drops, fall, front, furniture, gap, half, means, strange
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 4,042
    wjfiles
    19th July 2010, 07:47 PM Go to last post

  4. Help

    Started by 0417bernie01, 2nd August 2010 10:04 PM
    accident, australian, brought, cedar, cleaning, dresser, dressing, dull, excellent, finish, finished, forward, item, left, looked, marks, metho, novic, remained, shellack, spellingc, spilled, strick, structurally, table, terrible, thankyou, top, wipe
    • Replies: 2
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    0417bernie01
    3rd August 2010, 09:01 PM Go to last post

  5. My first project

    Started by bristolwoodwork, 7th August 2010 01:44 AM
    advice, attached, consideration, dave, discoloured, due, fine, flash, glass, gratefully, love, note, ontop, people, photos, potential, project, read, recieved, ruin, rush, shine, speculation, stage, stupid, surface, units, visable, wire, wool
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,821
    bristolwoodwork
    7th August 2010, 06:31 PM Go to last post

  6. Saved from the trash pile.

    Started by Papa, 21st July 2010 12:18 PM
    2000, chrome, clamping, coats, corner, dad, damn, dowels, fifties, holes, house, installed, knob, locate, misalignment, mom, moved, nail, original, paint, painted, pile, ply, saved, shed, square, straight, throw, trash, weeks
    • Replies: 14
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    Sebastiaan56
    8th August 2010, 09:45 AM Go to last post

  7. Becker Acroma

    Started by Pierced69, 9th August 2010 02:58 PM
    acroma, ago, becker, bought, forums, furntiure, laquer, laquers, modern, nice, reading, resto, site, wardrobe
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,429
    Pierced69
    9th August 2010, 02:58 PM Go to last post

  8. bentwood seats

    Started by gda27, 8th August 2010 06:52 PM
    assume, bentwood, cane, chair, chairs, commonly, found, gda, holes, nailed, patterned, plywood, poster, press, pressed, rattan, restored, restorer, seat, seats, skills, soft, sufficient, supplier, supply, sydney, time, tools, understanding, woven
    • Replies: 5
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    Drek
    16th August 2010, 10:00 PM Go to last post

  9. Sodablasting

    Started by burraboy, 17th August 2010 07:20 AM
    advertise, experience, furniture, sodablasting
    • Replies: 1
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    munruben
    19th August 2010, 01:00 PM Go to last post

  10. 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

  11. Fler Armchair restoration - joinery and upholstery adive needed.

    Started by erikus, 26th November 2008 03:35 PM
    adive, applied, armchair, blackwood, chair, chairs, constructed, cushioning, cushions, danish, erik, exceptional, fler, frames, gratefully, joinery, love, needed, oil, passionate, received, restoration, restore, springs, suggestions, sydney, timber, upholsterer, upholstery, wax
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 10,718
    Mike Busby
    26th August 2010, 03:36 PM Go to last post

  12. sewing table renovation-

    Started by allison-, 20th August 2010 03:09 PM
    145208, decent, hold, renovation, renovation-, replace, replacement, replacing, rest, sewing, simliar, style, table, top
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,826
    iconic
    29th August 2010, 10:34 PM Go to last post

  13. church pews

    Started by the bridport, 31st August 2010 06:21 PM
    black, church, grime, intended, oak, pack, pews, polyurethane, restore, sanding, silky, spraying, tips
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,809
    toolbagsPLUS
    31st August 2010, 06:37 PM Go to last post

  14. Restoring a huon pine dresser top

    Started by Horsecroft88, 12th August 2010 02:07 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    1826, 220, 360, allowing, boards, carefully, coats, dresser, final, finally, fine, glueing, grade, home, huon, nailing, pad, paint, piece, pine, pinning, previously, process, restored, restoring, sanding, shellac, steel, top, wool 2 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 16
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    Horsecroft88
    8th September 2010, 02:05 PM Go to last post

  15. Glueing pre-1940s Chairs?

    Started by jenkinsr, 7th September 2010 07:25 PM
    adrift, aquadhere, chairs, chasing, context, dowelled, feel, frame, free, front, glueing, grooved, hope, iii, leg/rail, loose, pic, pre1940s, rails, rasetter, screws, set, share, substitutes, suggestions, terminology, thinking, titebond, tongue, wood
    • Replies: 11
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    eskimo
    13th September 2010, 03:22 PM Go to last post

  16. Sanding exterior wood walls.

    Started by Jimbo123, 1st October 2010 03:22 AM
    $$$, afford, amateur, assistance, bad, bit, condition, entire, equipment, exterior, house, idea, lower, metres, paint, painting, pretty, pro, reasonable, result, rough, sand, sanding, smooth, type, walls, weathered, wide, wood, wooden
    • Replies: 4
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    ton
    1st October 2010, 04:54 PM Go to last post

  17. Valve Radio Restoration: AWA Radiolette

    Started by Castaway, 11th September 2010 07:22 PM
    3 Pages •
    1 2 3
    10-15, awa, bits, cabinet, colour, compared, draws, easy, exacly, finished, future, glue, hide, job, keeping, missing, pic, pics, poly, radio, radiolette, replace, restoration, restorations, shellac, stain, valve, veener, veneer, water
    • Replies: 36
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    Castaway
    12th October 2010, 10:03 PM Go to last post

  18. 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
    • Views: 1,963
    munruben
    25th October 2010, 08:35 AM Go to last post

  19. Question Restoring interior timber panelling

    Started by LisaF, 3rd October 2010 09:42 AM
    1940s, absolute, cheers, condition, damage, dark, dry, fabulous, faded, googling, guidance, house, idea, interior, linseed, lisa, metho, mixture, moved, novice, oil, original, panelling, restoring, suggestions, timber, type, vinegar, west-facing, wiped
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,016
    alwyn
    26th October 2010, 09:33 PM Go to last post

  20. stripping back to original paint?

    Started by phreak97, 17th September 2010 07:32 PM
    1940s, answer, arcade, coat, crap, damaging, definately, edge, elbowp, flakes, hey, ideas, layers, machine, mid, original, paint, painted, plaster, playfield, powdery, read, restoring, scraper, scrapes, strip, stripping, top, types, uncovered
    • Replies: 6
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    phreak97
    26th November 2010, 06:29 PM Go to last post

  21. 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

  22. Age Request -Kauri Pine Dresser

    Started by 8aGoat, 27th October 2010 06:02 PM
    advance, age, bar, boards, brand, coated, draw, drawer, dresser, finish, history, kauri, layers, lining, paint, paper, pine, repairs, request, simpsons, sliders, soild, sticker, suggestions, tradies, waste, www.tradiesbar.com.au
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,696
    mcjimmyd
    1st December 2010, 06:20 PM Go to last post

  23. New life for Neddy

    Started by toolbagsPLUS, 8th December 2010 09:06 AM
    agistment, cheers, christmas, delivered, life, neddy, restored, stable, steve, time, week, workshop
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,172
    mark david
    10th December 2010, 02:23 PM Go to last post

  24. Exclamation Urgent advice needed!!!

    Started by voodoo92, 12th December 2010 07:33 PM
    advice, appreciated, arranged, aware, buy, cappable, cheers, ear, family, form, greatly, horse, horses, issue, love, memory, missing, mother, needed, pictures, restoring, rocking, severly, skilled, sourced, supplied, urgent, valuable, worn, yeah
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,507
    mcjimmyd
    16th December 2010, 10:39 PM Go to last post

  25. Filing Cabinet, Antique? what kind of wood?

    Started by vegemitegirl, 28th November 2010 07:40 PM
    antique, attempt, bloody, busting, cabinet, confident, fee, filing, filled, happy, heavy, hehe, hell, holes, hope, ideas, identify, inside, kind, melbourne, omg, pay, phone, photo, pine, quality, re-varnishing, screw, websites, wood
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,163
    mcjimmyd
    16th December 2010, 11:01 PM Go to last post

  26. Barley Leaf Table...

    Started by tenman, 12th December 2010 08:42 AM
    barley, bits, bothered, brand, character, cos, eaten, feature, finish, gonna, hardware, history, holes, leaf, leave, nip, oil, photo, polish, recommendations, sat, store, table, tempted, thick, tomorrow, wife, woodworm, word, worm
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,533
    tenman
    24th December 2010, 11:23 PM Go to last post

  27. Smile Suggestions for removing sticky varnish

    Started by katz4, 3rd January 2011 12:20 PM
    australia, based, beautiful, build, cairns, carver, cleaning, dining, dresser, fluid, grateful, humidity, makes, moved, recommended, remove, removing, result, silicone, solid, solved, solvent, sticks, sticky, suggestions, suite, unsightly, varnish, wood, worse
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 3,875
    KevM
    3rd January 2011, 12:32 PM Go to last post

  28. timber slab perth

    Started by pjsaurus, 7th January 2011 12:45 PM
    1800mm, 500mm, 60mm, 800mm, all2tsup2tsup2tsup, approx, bloody, cheers, dry, drying, gday, gum, hoping, level, now2tsup, perth, reckon, red, roll, roughly, sanded, slab, spell, thick, thickness-er, timber, wide, word
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,154
    gooma
    8th January 2011, 04:15 PM Go to last post

  29. The Blue Mirror

    Started by Claw Hama, 17th January 2011 09:24 PM
    7mm, arch, bars, bit, blue, bottom, cruise, cut, dirt, french, glued, mirror, mixed, ordinary, paint, pessant, photos, piece, ply, pretty, removed, rough, shutters, smashed, time, top, wash, window, wood, wooden
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 1,563
    NCArcher
    20th January 2011, 08:56 AM Go to last post

  30. History request -Kauri Pine Cupboard?

    Started by 8aGoat, 27th October 2010 05:56 PM
    27/5/39, advice, beeswax/orange, corner, cupboard, deep, era, factory, forward, guess, hand, history, illegiable, kauri, left, lustre, marking, nice, oil, pencil, pine, ply, plywood, request, rough, shelac, stye, suggestions, top, utilitarian
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,299
    mcjimmyd
    23rd January 2011, 02:13 PM Go to last post
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