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  1. Advice needed for some new projects

    Started by Horsecroft88, 29th May 2012 01:47 PM
    14 Pages
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    • Replies: 207
    • Views: 25,644
    17th January 2014, 11:22 PM Go to last post
  2. Question Cleaning & Restoring Teak Veneer

    Started by claypot, 10th April 2012 10:13 AM
    advice, appreciated, chairs, clean, cleaning, closed, compared, condition, dark, dirty, extension, fairly, greatly, idea, leaves, marks, oiled, processes, products, restore, restoring, sideboards, spots, surface, table, teak, time, veneer, water
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 20,133
    19th June 2012, 11:00 AM Go to last post
  3. Coopers paint stripper

    Started by jonnorris03, 5th July 2011 09:33 AM
    ########, appreciated, belt, cheap, cheers, concern, coopers, covered, detector, door, easy, feedback, healthier, ideas, jon, lead, lol, lot, paint, putting, ring, sander, starts, stripper, stripping
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 15,414
    11th November 2018, 09:57 AM Go to last post
  4. G'day folks...help with old english oak desk please.

    Started by Lawry01, 29th April 2012 10:55 AM
    8 Pages
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    • Replies: 114
    • Views: 14,554
    4th June 2012, 02:26 PM Go to last post
  5. 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
  6. Electrolysis solution longevity

    Started by RedShirtGuy, 20th January 2019 08:47 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 13,746
    26th July 2019, 07:01 AM Go to last post
  7. Removing old putty from windows

    Started by Dengue, 14th July 2008 07:11 PM
    200, chip, chisel, difficult, door, glass, hardened, holding, jill, neatly, oak, panels, plastic, putty, pvc, remove, removing, silky, size, skips, smell, suggest, tedious, timber, tough, windows, x200
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 12,306
    31st October 2008, 09:45 PM Go to last post
  8. Restore Parker Mid Century Teak table top

    Started by magfowl, 19th June 2019 06:01 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 29
    • Views: 12,245
    25th June 2019, 02:49 PM Go to last post
  9. Bookcase secretaire in need of love

    Started by fletty, 24th February 2018 04:35 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 41
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    14th April 2018, 10:51 AM Go to last post
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 10,673
    26th August 2010, 03:36 PM Go to last post
  10. Recoating kitchen bench with polyurethane finish

    Started by JamesN, 30th October 2013 01:43 PM
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 10,660
    1st November 2013, 01:23 PM Go to last post
  11. Smile Restoration old silky oak wardrobe

    Started by angelmark, 28th July 2012 06:18 PM
    4 Pages
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    • Replies: 52
    • Views: 10,350
    7th October 2012, 06:56 PM Go to last post
  12. Roller Desk

    Started by Happy73, 25th August 2008 02:55 PM
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 10,329
    20th May 2010, 06:29 PM Go to last post
  13. silky / english oak furniture restoration

    Started by nick_b00, 25th June 2008 08:38 PM
    cabinet, call, chair, chairs, comfortable, couple, desk, english, filing, final, furniture, oak, pic, pics, restoration, restored, sat, silky, swivel, wip
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 10,311
    6th July 2012, 11:19 PM Go to last post
  14. 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: 10,258
    10th May 2009, 06:46 PM Go to last post
  15. Square Head Nails

    Started by Chris Parks, 28th February 2018 11:22 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 9,857
    25th March 2018, 03:41 PM Go to last post
  16. How to unwarp?

    Started by valiant_freak, 12th February 2009 10:02 AM
    ages, belongs, cheers, chicken, condition, drawer, drawers, fix, fixed, fixing, furniture, hand, job, level, noticable, piece, pieces, planing, poor, ryan, shed, spend, surfaces, tackle, time, unwarp, upper, warpage, warped, weather
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 9,582
    16th February 2009, 09:58 AM Go to last post
  17. Removal of oil from bare timber

    Started by David N, 3rd May 2016 04:15 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 9,139
    8th June 2016, 09:02 AM Go to last post
  18. Let's restore some dignity to this cedar chest

    Started by Thumbthumper, 20th September 2013 12:35 PM
    4 Pages
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    • Replies: 51
    • Views: 9,127
    25th July 2016, 10:14 AM Go to last post
  19. Restoring a huon pine dresser top

    Started by Horsecroft88, 12th August 2010 02:07 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 8,991
    8th September 2010, 02:05 PM Go to last post
  20. Question Taking the black of old silky oak furniture

    Started by MargieY, 2nd October 2013 11:17 PM
    advice, andwould, bit, black, boiled, bootpolish, dad, furniture, googling, itis, japan, lightenit, linseed, lots, metho, nice, nick, oak, paintstripper, pieces, questions, remove, silky, stain, suggested, surface, taking, top, turps, worn
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 8,879
    6th August 2014, 07:03 PM Go to last post
  21. Bentwood chairs

    Started by Aangelique1611, 13th December 2011 09:53 AM
    bentwood, bit, brown/black, careful, chairs, coat, colour, dark, delicate, embossed, gentle, gloss, hassle/chance, hit, paint, painting, pastel, patina, previously, product, ruining, sanding, save, scraping, seat, shades, stained, straight, stripping, wouldn’t
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 8,663
    14th December 2011, 09:24 PM Go to last post
  22. C1880 G J Lines Bow rocker restoration

    Started by yaryetnom, 10th July 2018 10:12 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 8,493
    8th October 2018, 06:35 AM Go to last post
  23. Question Question about a Cedar chest

    Started by johnnie52, 9th February 2009 06:09 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    120, advice, basis, bumps, cedar, chest, create, finish, florida, heat, hoping, humidity, idea, justice, lacquer, mess, offer, piece, plan, polyurethane, proper, question, refinish, regular, restorers, seasoned, shed, storage, strippers, wood
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 8,382
    2nd March 2009, 09:13 AM Go to last post
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 8,373
    4th August 2012, 12:47 AM Go to last post
  24. Kauri Trunk

    Started by Thumbthumper, 25th September 2016 03:05 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    • Replies: 52
    • Views: 8,298
    1st January 2018, 03:32 PM Go to last post
  25. Friesan Clock restoration

    Started by Lappa, 15th April 2019 06:03 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 32
    • Views: 8,095
    6th October 2019, 12:50 PM Go to last post
  26. Restoring Painted Silky Oak plywood

    Started by base454, 21st July 2009 11:45 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    bought, cupboard, door, finish, frames, guys, oak, paint, painted, panels, plywood, question, remove, restoring, sanded/stripped, shelac, silky, silly, solid, sound, stripping, surface, thinking, veneered, whiteno
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 7,764
    30th July 2009, 06:42 PM Go to last post
  27. 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: 7,717
    23rd June 2009, 11:59 AM Go to last post
  28. Oil stain on baltic pine

    Started by Black Cat, 19th April 2010 08:29 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    1880s, acid, baltic, bit, bought, clean, cooking, fat, floor, forum, fry-up, furniture, guys, hide, months, oil, options, oven, pic, pine, question, renovation, sensitive, speaking, stain, stands, strictly, suggestions, suspect, timber
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 7,685
    29th April 2010, 06:29 PM Go to last post

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