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  1. Question Replacing side panels with glass in oak wardrobe

    Started by MovieHeretic, 27th April 2008 09:11 AM
    cabinet, display, everyones, fall, frame, glass, guess, idea, moment, oak, panels, people, project, replacing, running, suggestions, thinking, wardrobe, wood
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,670
    27th April 2008, 11:16 AM Go to last post
  2. Yippee!

    Started by astrid, 26th April 2008 06:56 PM
    astrid, ban, polyurethane, word, yippee
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 2,079
    30th April 2008, 01:25 AM Go to last post
  3. getting rid of oxy burn marks

    Started by Dengue, 10th May 2008 12:00 PM
    2nd, body, bought, brush, burn, carbon, cast, completely, countersunk, deposits, easy, hand, heat, heated, hitting, holding, iron, jaws, jill, loosen, marks, oxy, recommend, replace, rid, rolleyes, screws, torch, vice, wire
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 2,899
    17th May 2008, 07:07 PM Go to last post
  4. Borer damage

    Started by gnu52, 13th May 2008 09:52 PM
    00%, 1860s, agent, ago, antique, auction, bill, borer, borers, bought, clues, control, damage, eggs, episode, filling, forget, guarantee, hide, holes, ideas, kill, mahogany, pest, preferably, recur, residual, started, stay, viable
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,391
    17th May 2008, 10:17 PM Go to last post
  5. Old brass threads

    Started by BarFly, 10th May 2008 06:37 PM
    brass, buy, fixed, lawrence, nut, originals, perth, repair, revolving, stools, table, threads, worms
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,164
    18th May 2008, 10:48 PM Go to last post
  6. To Turn Timber Grey??

    Started by Claw Hama, 21st May 2008 12:03 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    bleach, caustic, etc.dunno, grey, hardware, heard, market, product, products, quickly, soda, timber, timberlook, time, turn, web
    • Replies: 15
    • Views: 6,295
    24th May 2008, 09:38 AM Go to last post
  7. Question restoring a rusty old baby scales?

    Started by gorotsuki69, 3rd June 2008 01:36 AM
    advance, approach, baby, coat, display, etched, fresh, harsh, left, paint, painted, plan, remove, restoring, rust, rustbuster, rusting, rusty, scales, suggestions, weighing, white
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,214
    4th June 2008, 04:13 PM Go to last post
  8. Moved: new plane restoration project

    Started by tanii51, 5th June 2008 11:08 PM
    plane, project, restoration
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  9. Timber Table Top Gaps

    Started by hap97, 6th June 2008 06:54 PM
    1200mm, 3mm, black, boards, commercial, compound, crack, dia, dust, filled, filler, finished, gap, gaps, hard, ideas, looked, movements, oak, pva, restoring, rolleyes, round, table, tasmanian, tend, timber, top, unique, wood
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 14,453
    13th June 2008, 02:21 PM Go to last post
  10. Restoration of mahogany dining table leg

    Started by Woodwould, 18th June 2008 10:00 AM
    amount, blend, castor, colouring, considerable, consisting, dining, earlier, found, glued, leg, mahogany, meant, necessitated, permanent, photos, received, removed, repair, replaced, restoration, screws, scrutiny, section, slightly, sound, table, tip, toe, waxing
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 3,557
    22nd June 2008, 07:41 PM Go to last post
  11. Restoration of bookcase doors.

    Started by Woodwould, 25th June 2008 09:42 AM
    9/64, astragals, bar, bars, board, bookcase, books, calico, carefully, compo, curved, cut, damaged, door, doors, ensure, frame, glass, glazing, glued, laid, panes, removed, restoration, salvaged, sections, secured, strips, thirteen, tracery
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 4,723
    25th June 2008, 09:57 AM Go to last post
  12. Table Top Gaps -Finished - Purists Beware!

    Started by hap97, 26th June 2008 06:14 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    11fc, acceptable, adhesive-sealant, beware, black, crack, darker, decided, earlier, filler, fillers, finished, flexible, gaps, groove, joints, lot, month, polyurethane, purists, research, routed, sikaflex, strip, table, timber, time, top, wax, wood
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 5,514
    29th June 2008, 10:05 AM Go to last post
  13. Drawer Runners

    Started by hap97, 28th June 2008 08:00 PM
    arabic, bottom, brand, build, cut, drawer, fit, glue, grain, groove, ideas, marble, option, oregon, photo, refit, runners, running, slip, slips, strip, structure, surface, timber, top, translators, unit, wood, worn, worst
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 4,887
    29th June 2008, 11:08 AM Go to last post
  14. Restoration of a walnut chest on stand.

    Started by Woodwould, 24th June 2008 01:45 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    absent, brass, chest, constructed, cross-grain, cut, drawer, drop, front, hand, handles, legs, missing, mouldings, original, period, pieces, pine, rebuilt, removed, replaced, restoration, set, sets, solid, stand, thick, veneer, veneered, walnut
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 5,325
    8th July 2008, 01:37 AM Go to last post
  15. Moved: masonite and asbestos

    Started by logankevin2007, 8th July 2008 09:53 AM
    asbestos, masonite
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  16. 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: 5,485
    18th July 2008, 12:59 PM Go to last post
  17. 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: 5,843
    21st July 2008, 11:45 AM Go to last post
  18. 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: 2,495
    31st July 2008, 11:14 PM Go to last post
  19. 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: 3,707
    7th August 2008, 10:47 PM Go to last post
  20. Ink stains

    Started by back yarder, 6th August 2008 03:08 PM
    elm, ink, oak, product, stains, wood
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,265
    8th August 2008, 08:29 PM Go to last post
  21. 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: 2,599
    15th August 2008, 10:57 AM Go to last post
  22. 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: 1,638
    17th August 2008, 11:38 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: 1,765
    18th August 2008, 08:26 PM Go to last post
  24. 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
    25th August 2008, 09:52 PM Go to last post
  25. 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: 2,460
    1st September 2008, 11:39 AM Go to last post
  26. 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: 3,438
    1st September 2008, 10:06 PM Go to last post
  27. 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: 7,129
    12th September 2008, 03:54 PM Go to last post
  28. 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: 1,663
    17th September 2008, 08:55 AM Go to last post
  29. 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
    29th September 2008, 09:44 PM Go to last post
  30. 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: 1,316
    3rd October 2008, 08:52 PM Go to last post

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