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  1. Old bridge timber

    Started by Yort222, 18th October 2013 08:38 PM
    225x125, acid, acquired, beams, belt, bridge, bring, clean, cleaning, colour, exposed, floor, hiring, oxalic, peoples, pergola, planning, posts, pressure, product, sander, sanding, sort, timber
    • Replies: 4
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    KymG
    26th October 2013, 03:34 PM Go to last post

  2. Aging Nickle Coated Screws

    Started by goodwoody, 23rd October 2013 06:23 PM
    aged, aging, appearance, chest, coated, coating, damien, groovers, match, nickel, nickle, remove, screws
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,430
    bsrlee
    25th October 2013, 11:42 PM Go to last post

  3. Question Restoring antique style lamp

    Started by ykfc, 23rd October 2013 09:01 AM
    antique, basically, bit, bought, brass, brassho, called, causing, clean, dipping, dirts, dissembled, harm, kitchen, lamp, magnet, metal, people, polishing, ready, restoration, restored, restoring, solution, solvent, stayed, stuff, style, vintage, vintage ceiling lamp
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,807
    ykfc
    23rd October 2013, 09:01 AM Go to last post

  4. Banquet table

    Started by the_atom, 20th October 2013 12:49 PM
    3.4, banquet, clues, joinery, love, photos, pieces, possession, ray, restore, restoring, sell, table, timber, tip, top, wondering, worth
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 1,654
    Horsecroft88
    21st October 2013, 07:10 PM Go to last post

  5. Restored book-ends

    Started by bassmansimon, 14th October 2013 01:16 PM
    afternoon, afternoons, book, book-ends, bookends, cracked, design, family, gidgee, grandfathers, house, late, mulga, nice, re-assembled, reminiscing, restored, simon, simplistic, times, workbench
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,465
    bassmansimon
    14th October 2013, 01:16 PM Go to last post

  6. Door mortise fill

    Started by phaser, 23rd September 2013 05:55 PM
    bottom, bought, deadlock, door, fill, fit, glue, intention, lock, mortise, narrow, occurred, panels, phaser, piece, poured, purpose, rectangle, solid, suddenly, suit, timber, top, vertical
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 3,366
    phaser
    29th September 2013, 10:58 AM Go to last post

  7. Broken Leg on Sheraton Table

    Started by rbalse, 22nd September 2013 12:57 PM
    286388286389286390286391, 6mm, abilities, accept, advice, base, broken, confident, covered, dowels, fairly, glueing, happy, heads, japanning, joint, leg, lines, match, pre-existing, screw, screwing, shaping, sheraton, splinter, suitable, table, tenon, thinking, timber 8 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,943
    rbalse
    27th September 2013, 02:39 PM Go to last post

  8. Advice for a first timer restoring an old radiogram

    Started by Sophisticus, 8th September 2013 01:28 PM
    $25, advice, bit, couple, damaged, direction, figured, fix, guidance, identify, jumped, lifting, mind, picked, pics, piece, project, radiogram, removal, removed, replace, restoring, stick-down, thinking, timer, top, total, veneer, walnut, warrant 4 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,958
    Christos
    12th September 2013, 12:17 AM Go to last post

  9. help need to restore chairs

    Started by tunnel, 5th September 2013 09:14 PM
    284078, advice, birthday, chairs, finish, mums, restore, simple 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,414
    Master Splinter
    7th September 2013, 10:55 AM Go to last post

  10. Question Is there a trick to matching filler to an oil finish?

    Started by tea.drinker, 5th September 2013 05:12 PM
    amber, blond, colour, darker, describe, dry, filler, filling, finish, guess, honey, light, maple, matching, method, oil, oiled, orange, pale, result, some-sort-of-pine, sort, stage, tested, trick, wood
    • Replies: 9
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    fineboxes
    7th September 2013, 09:00 AM Go to last post

  11. Question Need advice with this table...

    Started by tea.drinker, 31st August 2013 09:14 PM
    283313283314283315, advice, craftsman, desk, draw, fix, inside, keys, locks, markings, middle, noob, rotting, scratched, scratches/dints, solid, start, table, top, wood 3 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 1,768
    tea.drinker
    4th September 2013, 11:51 AM Go to last post

  12. Whisky stain on Pine coffee table.

    Started by hawkinob, 26th August 2013 11:08 AM
    bob, book, bought, burnt, coffee, colour, darkish, finish, forum, handbook, hours, natural, noticed, p.s, pine, polishers, pun, repair, shop, sociable, solution, stain, stained, stuff, table, top, trouble, twenty, whisky, white
    • Replies: 5
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    hawkinob
    3rd September 2013, 05:59 PM Go to last post

  13. New top for old table

    Started by Timmymacca, 2nd September 2013 01:42 PM
    300mm, 900mm, extension, extensions, finish, flaking, giving, landfill, legs, legs/rails, light, macca, nice, opinion, pieces, ply, rails, remove, replace, sand, slide, solid, sort, spent, square, started, stuffed, table, timber, top
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,493
    Timmymacca
    3rd September 2013, 04:52 PM Go to last post

  14. Restoring Asian Dresser ! Help ! :o)

    Started by jonboysky, 3rd September 2013 05:53 AM
    advice, appreciated, asian, back-plate, bit, clamp, colour, cupboards, drawers, dresser, due, function, gluing, greatly, hardwood, hoping, ideas, installing, john, limits, moment, nitromors, painted, pics, restoring, reverse, sagging, sturdy, tight, upload 3 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,858
    jonboysky
    3rd September 2013, 05:53 AM Go to last post

  15. Cedar Duchess Combination Chest now restored

    Started by hap97, 10th August 2013 06:42 PM
    1900, caustic, cedar, chest, coats, colour, combination, date, doors, drawers, drop, duchess, expecting, feed, finish, gloss, lower, mirror, nails, piece, pre, pull, remove, restored, shellac, square, steel, unit, wax, wool 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,854
    gyropilot
    25th August 2013, 08:46 PM Go to last post

  16. Restoring a red Cedar chest of drawers.

    Started by oscara, 24th July 2013 08:57 PM
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    1850s, 278289278290278291278292, antique, based, cedar, chest, cutting, damage, decide, dove, drawers, guess, handles, idea, legs, mine, online, oscar, professionally, purchased, red, restoring, satisfaction, similar, strip, tails, test, thinking, wood, worth 25 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 6,283
    oscara
    10th August 2013, 03:39 PM Go to last post

  17. What sort of clamps do I need to fix a wobbly chair?

    Started by Libertine, 8th August 2013 06:40 PM
    advance, buy, chair, clamps, difference, diy, edwardian, fix, folks, glue, haha, literally, managed, middle, multipurpose, project, questions, restoring, ros, screwdriver, sizes, sort, table, tool, type, varieties, waiting, warm, weather, wobbly
    • Replies: 4
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    jimbur
    10th August 2013, 03:02 PM Go to last post

  18. Chaise- Remove Legs/Reattaching Legs...for the legless

    Started by sogni, 16th July 2013 09:24 PM
    277199277200, 2nd, breaking, chaise, cheers, drill, fit, ian, insert, leg, legless, legs, legs or reattaching, legsfor, lucky, meets, pic, product, pros, removal, remove, removing, sever, soz, spot, square, surely, thingo, threaded, tips 3 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,363
    Libertine
    24th July 2013, 09:18 PM Go to last post

  19. Wood Rot

    Started by would, 23rd July 2013 04:44 PM
    appreciated, built, flooring, flooring.i, found, google, guess, happening, house, identify, image, info, it.can, narra, parents, philippineswe, repair.any, restored, rot, rotted, similar, wood 2 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 6,152
    Master Splinter
    23rd July 2013, 11:25 PM Go to last post

  20. Side table restoration

    Started by philster751, 22nd July 2013 06:30 PM
    appreciated, coming, darker, exact, existing, finish, girlfriends, ideas, light, living, lot, middle, nature, orange, period, phil, photos, pics, prefer, removing, restoration, restore, sake, sand, shellac, table, thinking, timber, wax, wood 4 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,700
    Horsecroft88
    22nd July 2013, 08:23 PM Go to last post

  21. Restoration projects , restorer wanted to help/mentor on projects. Sydney

    Started by tophalf, 11th July 2013 03:44 PM
    bed, bench, casual/part, cedar, chaise, cheers, chest, coalbrookdale, colonial, day, drawers, experienced, folks, garden, happy, help or mentor, help/mentor, ian, including, mentor, projects, restoration, restorer, retired, ryde, sydney, time, travel, wanted 6 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 2,367
    jimmy Rae
    21st July 2013, 06:52 PM Go to last post

  22. Question removing a lanolin finish

    Started by Tailsnz, 18th July 2013 06:19 PM
    cheers, easy, finish, forward, lanolin, refinish, removing, restoring, rimu, sand, strip, tayler, wainscot
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,382
    The Last Detail
    20th July 2013, 09:23 PM Go to last post

  23. Repurposing Carpenters Table - Advice needed

    Started by svselva, 8th July 2013 12:56 PM
    276009276010, advice, apply, aquahere, bosch, carpenters, dark, definately, finish, grade, hand, living, needed, note, palm, paper, repurpose, repurposing, sand, sander, skills, soapy, sort, spelling, suggestions, table, varnish, venture, water, workworking 2 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,039
    Master Splinter
    18th July 2013, 11:14 PM Go to last post

  24. STRIPPING Window furniture

    Started by DaveTTC, 17th July 2013 10:42 AM
    277251, average, coat, dave, double, furniture, home, hung, lock, metal, mix, paint, pulls, remove, restoring, stripped, stripping, thx, window, wood 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,440
    Horsecroft88
    17th July 2013, 02:37 PM Go to last post

  25. Restorer (sp) needed

    Started by SAISAY, 8th July 2013 08:10 AM
    absolutely, apron, broken, button, carved, cleaned, depicts, fixed, hand, leg, lighter, love, needed, north, pocket, polished, qld, reliable, restorer, round, screwed, stain, stools, table, tia, timber, underneath, vigorously, wooden, worn
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,981
    SAISAY
    8th July 2013, 08:10 AM Go to last post

  26. Help to a newbie: a art deco (?) vanity

    Started by MMG, 25th June 2013 06:37 PM
    1930s, acetone, advance, advice, art, artist, correct, deco, deco-style, design, feel, fit, free, function, life, lovely, marks, mmg274268, newbie, perfectly, project, purchased, recently, refinish, sand, similar, spilled, start, throw, vanity 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,757
    MMG
    25th June 2013, 06:37 PM Go to last post

  27. Restoring a parquet floor

    Started by Normanj, 25th June 2013 12:06 PM
    5x10m, alternating, belt-type, choice, couple, decent, edges, efficient, finish, floor, floors, grain, hand, hire, job, moderately, obvious, orbital, parquet, proved, question, real, remove, restore, restoring, round, sander, task, tiles, time-consuming
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,106
    Normanj
    25th June 2013, 06:25 PM Go to last post

  28. Restoration of inlaid boxes

    Started by Bessie, 24th June 2013 09:34 PM
    antique, boxes, inlaid, inlay, post, restoration, share, spot, wisdom
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,064
    Bessie
    24th June 2013, 09:34 PM Go to last post

  29. Lightbulb Old Work Bench Restoration

    Started by sogni, 5th May 2013 04:31 PM
    /coloured, apply, bench, cleaning, coloured, dimension, elements, epoxy, fill, filler, finish, flexible, ian, inside, living, moisture, months, rabbits, rest, restoration, soaked/scrubbed, speak, suggestion, surface, timber, top, vinegar, wax, wire, work 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,588
    sogni
    18th June 2013, 08:03 AM Go to last post

  30. Identification Required

    Started by stevew, 1st June 2013 04:58 PM
    clip, envelopes, holding, identification, identify, metal, piece, required, restoration.can, similar.hope, top 2 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,516
    HOOKED.UP
    2nd June 2013, 11:51 AM Go to last post

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