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  1. Let's turn this into a chair

    Started by Thumbthumper, 15th May 2013 02:24 PM
    3 Pages •
    1 2 3
    267929267930, angled, arrived, auction, build, cedar, chair, clean, disassemble, finish, grime, joints, leg, mortices, nails, pics, post, railback, rails, rebuild, reglue, sawn, seat, section, site, stay, tenons, tuned, turn, wobbly 39 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 30
    • Views: 5,431
    mattocks
    25th May 2013, 09:57 PM Go to last post

  2. Oil for restored oregon french doors?

    Started by Premer Stripper, 21st May 2013 05:09 PM
    awful, doors, finish, finished, french, happy, hard, lots, lovely, oil, oregon, paint, recommend, restored, stripping, thick, treat, varnish 2 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 2,267
    CMB
    23rd May 2013, 07:39 PM Go to last post

  3. Mango Outdoor Setting needs some TLC

    Started by Titch555, 20th May 2013 10:50 AM
    advance, attached, attempting, bench, bit, brisbane, chlorine, complete, explain, guidance, james, kill, law, mango, mould, novice, outdoor, pay, people, photos, properly, restoration, sealing, seats, setting, situation, solution, table, tlc, treated 3 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,186
    The Bleeder
    21st May 2013, 09:44 AM Go to last post

  4. HELP!! How can I re-hydrate my $6000 acousitic guitar (exposed to heaps of dry heat)?

    Started by Guitardude, 18th May 2013 05:33 AM
    $6000, 2-3, acousitic, affect, control, controlled, day, destroy, dry, exposed, guitar, heaps, heat, hermetically, humidity, inside, minutes, moment, noticeably, over-saturation, re-hydrate, rehydrate, schedule, sealed, single, supposed, time, times, tone, vent
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 3,326
    2blast67
    19th May 2013, 10:28 PM Go to last post

  5. removing bitumen

    Started by gtseraf, 14th May 2013 06:30 PM
    affordable, bitumen, coated, easy, plywood, remove, removing, safe
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,456
    gtseraf
    18th May 2013, 03:17 PM Go to last post

  6. how to restore this silky oak wardrobe? SOS!

    Started by pup76, 31st January 2013 12:49 PM
    advance, attaching, beeswax, brass, combo, complete, door, experienced, friends, furniture, guide, heaps, heavy, michelle, novice, oak, oil, paint, pictures, polish, pros, reading, restore, restoring, sand, silky, sos, spots, turpentine/linseed, wardrobe 13 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 5,259
    AnselmFraser
    17th May 2013, 01:17 AM Go to last post

  7. 18th century Japanese 'kuruma tansu" wheeled chest restoration

    Started by fudo133, 24th November 2012 10:56 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    10cm, 11cm, 17cm, 242105, bottom, bought, chest, continue, cypress, doors, frame, front, furniture, hinoki, japanese, keyaki, larger, moment, piece, restoration, roughly, sections, serrata, slats, square, thinnest, wheeled, wheels, widest, zelkova 59 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 4,462
    fudo133
    17th May 2013, 01:14 AM Go to last post

  8. Wood filler

    Started by Rodney James, 12th May 2013 10:46 PM
    advance, antique, chairs, covered, fabric, filled, filler, removed, restoring, staple, stapled, staples, tack, tacked, tacks, timber, times, type, upholstered, wood 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,782
    AnselmFraser
    17th May 2013, 12:33 AM Go to last post

  9. What's the best way to take Merbau back to raw state?

    Started by MacPhang, 16th May 2013 05:49 PM
    approach, bearing, boxes, condition, deck, firstly, headed, hold, idea, len, merbau, mind, nails, oil, oiling, planter, poor, prepare, question, raw, round, rows, seating, stained, state, suggest, timber, timbers, twofold, wood
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,805
    Bedford
    16th May 2013, 05:54 PM Go to last post

  10. Arch Head Sash Windows

    Started by CabMak, 13th May 2013 04:56 PM
    appreciated, approach, arch, create, created, creating, double, experience, greatly, head, hung, ideas, lite, sash, scratch, single, sources, steve, successfully, techniques, unsure, windows, wondering
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,267
    CabMak
    13th May 2013, 04:56 PM Go to last post

  11. My Kitchen Dresser

    Started by OldGrain, 20th April 2013 12:32 PM
    ago, back.the, bought, bucks, coat, coated, collect, dresser, gordon, grain, hardware, houses, intention, kitchen, kitchenalia, linished, lot, oil, photo, picture, raw, remain, sand.i, sanded, sellers, steel, ten, texture, timber, time
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,956
    OldGrain
    21st April 2013, 06:55 PM Go to last post

  12. Tool Chest restoration hardware

    Started by EarleY, 15th April 2013 12:17 AM
    ago, apprentice, box, chest, hardware, lock, maker, pattern, picture, process, purchase, replacement, restoration, restoring, tool, unable 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,678
    Rod Gilbert
    15th April 2013, 07:32 PM Go to last post

  13. 1916 Singer Treadle Sewing Machine Cabinet Restore

    Started by mach70, 9th April 2013 12:44 PM
    1916, 262238, appreciated, balls, cabinet, cheers, dog, doors, family, fixing, friend, greatly, holes, issue, leaving, machine, real, repaired, replace, rest, restore, secured, sewing, shawn, singer, stand, stuff, thinking, treadle, wear 8 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,846
    JB
    11th April 2013, 11:08 PM Go to last post

  14. red cedar hall table - WIP

    Started by ARealBoy, 10th March 2013 08:20 PM
    ago, bit, bought, buried, cedar, chainsaw, coat, couple, diameter, estapol, felled, hall, knock, logs, lovely, metres, mick, mill, paint, piece, red, shed, shop, slab, table, timber, top, underneath, wip, yard 12 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,369
    burraboy
    20th March 2013, 06:21 AM Go to last post

  15. Removing Stain for timber

    Started by michaelw7291, 16th March 2013 08:12 PM
    baking, brother, bucket, day, envy, guy, hand, home, incorrect, legs, mix, night, query, remove, removing, sand, soak, soda, solution, stain, stained, task, timber, told
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 5,251
    Master Splinter
    17th March 2013, 09:48 PM Go to last post

  16. In desperate need of some opinions ASAP

    Started by fudo133, 10th March 2013 06:11 PM
    257259257260, asap, before/after, bright, chest, coat, darkness, desperate, direct, glossier, highlights, honest, left, lighter, makes, opinions, peoples, photo, piece, rest, richer, sealer, shellac, shot, single, takes, thin, tones, wax, wood 6 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,964
    fudo133
    15th March 2013, 06:29 PM Go to last post

  17. Identification / valuation ?

    Started by arose62, 28th February 2013 07:32 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    andrew, background, called, care, cheers, correct, decide, family, friend, future, gift, history, identification, info, makers, parents, photo, piece, pointers, remember, sideboard, style, valuation, wealthy 4 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 15
    • Views: 3,206
    Lawry01
    7th March 2013, 08:45 AM Go to last post

  18. Question Sandblasting to strip old finish

    Started by artme, 28th February 2013 08:28 PM
    acquired, couple, days, entertainment, extra, finish, job, pine, quickest, quickie, sandblasting, space, storage, strip, units, wondering
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,376
    artme
    6th March 2013, 08:58 AM Go to last post

  19. Help Please With Old Sideboard

    Started by hitch, 28th February 2013 04:47 PM
    255974255975255976255977, align, attached, attempt, beautiful, bit, bowing, caused, corner, difficult, fail, fits, forward, glue, guess, horizontal, impossible, procedure, properly, re-install, refer, sideboard, straighten, technique, timbers, told, trick, undertake, vertical, wood 4 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 2,449
    hitch
    4th March 2013, 12:15 PM Go to last post

  20. Repro china cabinet repair job!

    Started by bonita, 23rd February 2013 04:44 PM
    255403, acquired, align, cabinet, china, correctly, door, doors, enforced, front, hinges, job, mahogany, missing, packing, price, reasonable, repair, repairing, replaced, repro, slight, slightly, stoppers, struts, warped 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,308
    bonita
    23rd February 2013, 04:44 PM Go to last post

  21. New/old bedside tables

    Started by Thumbthumper, 19th January 2013 06:44 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    applied, bead, beading, bedside, bottom, cedar, cock, cut, cutting, decided, drawer, fit, front, fronts, glue, groove, half, legs, lots, marking, new or old, pic, pics, ready, record, restoration, tables, time, tops, washstand 51 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 4,603
    Chief012
    18th February 2013, 10:27 AM Go to last post

  22. 1880 baggatelle pool table restoration help please

    Started by dhubilant, 14th January 2013 03:50 PM
    1880, advice, aged, appreciated, baggatelle, boards, cheers, circle, clamp, cribbage, cups, glenn, glue, inlaid, joins, leave, pics, pool, post, prior, project, restoration, restore, rounded, sand, scoring, slightly, starting, table, top
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 1,786
    dhubilant
    8th February 2013, 11:54 PM Go to last post

  23. Metal Chair Spreaders

    Started by Peleroda, 28th January 2013 08:55 PM
    chair, chairs, cheers, clean, cut, damage, deg, duplicate, hammered, heart, hope, legs, light, lock, metal, peter, photos, process, punched, remove, roll, secure, set, shed, spreaders, suggestions, valuable, washer, wire/metal, wires 8 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 1,664
    Peleroda
    8th February 2013, 07:57 AM Go to last post

  24. Stripping wooden doors/staircase/door frames-melbourne

    Started by Rhonie, 6th February 2013 09:29 PM
    1920s, acid, advice, ages, amount, apologies, appreciated, based, board, bought, children, dealt, doors, doors/staircase/door, frames-melbourne, framesmelbourne, hand, house, involve, lead, massive, melbourne, paint, properly, restore, staircase, stripping, takes, time, wooden 7 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,579
    Horsecroft88
    7th February 2013, 08:50 AM Go to last post

  25. removing finish from carved timber chairs

    Started by vincentvega, 18th January 2013 02:49 PM
    aquired, blasting, carved, carving, chairs, converned, dark, detail, finer, finish, finished, forever, identify, media, natural, picture, red, remove, removing, restore, sand, sort, stain, strip, timber, type, wife 4 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,091
    Lawry01
    6th February 2013, 01:00 PM Go to last post

  26. Repairing a Lighthouse

    Started by besttools4u.com, 2nd February 2013 08:23 AM
    ,,,not, attach, bottom, cement, containers, friend, fun, home, house, http://besttools4u.com, incredible, job, light, lighthouse, pics, pieces, plastic, post, rain, repairing, rotateing, rotten, sand, shop, sideways, slab, square, steak, tools, wind 7 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,324
    besttools4u.com
    2nd February 2013, 08:23 AM Go to last post

  27. How to pick my stain and then to make it look like the wenge it is

    Started by bamctaggart, 28th January 2013 12:00 AM
    application, attack, begginer, colour, complete, electric, furnature, furniture, gun, ideas, make, matching, mention, objections, pick, pictures, plan, preferably, re-stain/sand/stain/seal, sand, site, spray, stain, tops, wenge 5 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,216
    bamctaggart
    28th January 2013, 12:00 AM Go to last post

  28. Which wood grain filler?

    Started by EagerBeaver71, 15th January 2013 06:59 PM
    advice, alternative, appreciated, black, bog, builders, completely, enamel, filler, filling, grain, holes, larger, non-waterbased, painting, run, sam, spray, stuff, suggestions, tabletop, top, wood
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,651
    EagerBeaver71
    16th January 2013, 06:59 AM Go to last post

  29. Huon Pine slab

    Started by Makka, 10th January 2013 04:47 PM
    attempting, coffee, far.what, feast, filling, finish, glue, happy, huon, leaning, major, mixed, moment, pine, research, result, sawdust, slab, split, table, top, track, varnish, watson, wood 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,457
    Ray153
    15th January 2013, 04:43 PM Go to last post

  30. Captain's Chair mechanisms

    Started by Salty, 10th January 2013 04:38 PM
    appreciated, captain, captains, chair, fall, mechanism, mechanisms, replacement, rise, tilt, wornno
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 3,413
    Salty
    11th January 2013, 09:16 AM Go to last post

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