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My stain runs when I apply shellac

Started by dreamcatcher, 4th December 2008 02:35 PM

applied, apply, applying, appreciated, attached, based, cheers, correct, dan, diluted, finish, guys, maple, picture, piece, queensland, removing, restoring, run, runs, shellac, spirit, stain, staining, stains, tips, traditional, turps, wardrobe, wattyl

Replies: 3
Views: 2,114

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th December 2008 11:13 PM; by ian

Forum:
FINISHING

When I get my workshop finished.

Started by Breficoed, 2nd December 2008 06:24 AM

barbecue, begin, catching, cleaned, cold, cross, entitled, expected, finally, finished, forward, gevenin, hanging, house, household, intend, mountains, night, painting, pension, restoring, rod, set, snow, time, trailer/sailer, u.k, wales, west, workshop

Replies: 12
Views: 1,723

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th December 2008 08:33 AM; by andy morgan 239

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

triangular shaped sanding pads

Started by JDarvall, 28th November 2008 08:48 PM

adjecent, avoiding, blokes, board, careful, cleaning, corners, dissemble, edge, festool, focusing, grooving, ideally, imagine, moment, necessarily, noticed, orbi, pad, pads, piece, prefer, restoring, sanding, sandpaper, shaped, tool, totally, triangluar, triangular

Replies: 7
Views: 3,231

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th November 2008 10:15 PM; by JDarvall

Forum:
RESTORATION

Painting embossed writing on metal

Started by BobL, 16th November 2008 11:33 PM

black, chain, clutch, cover, covering, cutting, embossed, fiddly, grey, ideas, makers, masking, metal, paint, painted, painting, pretty, restore, restoring, scalpel, spay, stihl, tape, thinking, writing

Replies: 4
Views: 3,265

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th November 2008 12:22 AM; by BobL

Forum:
FINISHING

Is this table worth restoring?

Started by steck, 18th August 2008 11:42 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1930s, bit, brown, called, color, dark, edge, hinged, ideas, job, lifting, light, lighter, metho, original, painted, produced, restore, restoring, rubbing, runs, sample, scuff, table, tackle, told, top, veneer, wood, worth

Replies: 18
Views: 5,465

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th November 2008 09:55 PM; by Andrew_B

Forum:
RESTORATION

Roofing Restoration

Started by ubeaut, 16th November 2008 07:21 AM

arm, compound, cost, crack, flexi, gonna, leg, market, paint, people, product, products, questions, re-pointing, read, repaint, restoration, restoring, results, roof, roofing, stay, wondering

Replies: 0
Views: 991

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th November 2008 07:21 AM; by ubeaut

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Which screw gun is best for fixing corro?

Started by ubeaut, 16th November 2008 07:21 AM

6802bv, advice, ahead, amount, buildings, cope, cordless, corro, cottage, electric, fair, fixing, framed, gun, happy, jarrah, mak, millers, pay, quality, restoring, screw, screwdriver, seeking, timber, tool

Replies: 0
Views: 1,378

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th November 2008 07:21 AM; by ubeaut

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Restoring ornate ceilings

Started by ubeaut, 16th November 2008 06:50 AM

1917, built, ceiling, ceilings, cheers, flaking, gday, house, method, ornate, paint, products, remove, restoring

Replies: 0
Views: 1,204

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th November 2008 06:50 AM; by ubeaut

Forum:
RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

Advice on restoring a blackbean credenza/sideboard

Started by ramilio, 21st September 2008 02:41 PM

1960s, advice, applying, appreciated, attached, blackbean, crack, credenza, credenza or sideboard, credenza/sideboard, current, finish, flash, glossy, greatly, guessing, help/advice, novice, oiled, paul, photos, restoring, sanding, sideboard, total, veneer, wondering, wood

Replies: 7
Views: 3,285

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st November 2008 01:19 PM; by seriph1

Forum:
RESTORATION

restoring veneered cabinet

Started by AndrewPatrol, 16th August 2008 10:46 PM

accepted, andrew, apply, bubbled, cabinet, challenge, cloth, damp, display, feasable, glue, gratefully, iron, lifted, moments, plan, position, pva, question, reheated, repaired, restoring, sit, sound, tackled, veneer, veneered, warm, weight, wet

Replies: 2
Views: 2,012

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th October 2008 07:06 PM; by AndrewPatrol

Forum:
RESTORATION

Suggestions for restoring teak bench top

Started by HandyWannabe, 18th October 2008 07:15 PM

advance, advice, bench, bought, bunnings, cloth, damp, experts, finish, fixing, handy, job, kitchen, provide, research, restoring, sander, sanding, servery, sink, sort, stock, suggestions, super, teak, teak bench restorations, top, tops, water, wiped

Replies: 7
Views: 4,085

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd October 2008 09:54 PM; by JB

Forum:
FINISHING

Remove Proof Tint from Bone inlay

Started by LaurieY, 8th October 2008 09:45 PM

antique, bed, bleach, bone, chinese, inlay, marriage, proof, red, remove, restoring, stain, suggestions, tint, wood

Replies: 2
Views: 1,895

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th October 2008 04:31 PM; by astrid

Forum:
RESTORATION

Another SA

Started by daff, 1st October 2008 08:48 PM

bit, bought, field, forward, handy, helpful, house, input, moment, reading, restoring, sorts, specific, taking, time, topics, wir, woman, wonderful

Replies: 5
Views: 1,208

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd October 2008 06:48 PM; by Ad de Crom

Forum:
G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

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: 4,410

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th September 2008 09:44 PM; by AJ

Forum:
RESTORATION

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: 14,619

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th June 2008 02:21 PM; by munruben

Forum:
RESTORATION

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: 2,267

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th June 2008 04:13 PM; by munruben

Forum:
RESTORATION

Fireplace

Started by lordnelson, 7th May 2008 04:29 PM

Replies: 5
Views: 2,577

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th May 2008 03:57 PM; by Pagie

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Restoring external silky oak doors

Started by Dengue, 29th April 2008 06:11 PM

advised, beauty, coat, coats, colour, dipping, disappears, doors, external, final, glass, ideas, intend, jill, links, marine, modern, oak, original, panels, previous, replacement, restoring, silky, similiar, solid, strongly, suggestions, timber, varnish

Replies: 8
Views: 6,520

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd May 2008 06:05 PM; by conwood

Forum:
FINISHING

Restoring Casement Windows

Started by LotteBum, 29th October 2007 01:16 PM

based, bottom, breathe, casement, chunk, closed, expensive, frame, glass, grinder, hinges, house, looked, oil, paint, peeled, pink, prettier, primer, reinstalled, reopened, restoring, stuck, time, told, underside, unpainted, weeks, window, windows

Replies: 5
Views: 13,360

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th March 2008 09:30 PM; by Colin Howkins

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Restoring American Oak Kitchen

Started by AndreB, 7th February 2008 07:01 PM

advice, aged, american, changing, colour, complete, deteriorated, dollars, doors, finish, guys, hand, kitchen, lacquer, literally, oak, paneling, preparation, prepare, re-application, re-applying, recommending, removal, restore, restoring, steam, thousands, veneer, wear, yellowed

Replies: 0
Views: 1,971

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th February 2008 07:01 PM; by AndreB

Forum:
FINISHING

Seeking apprenticeship

Started by RickSull, 23rd November 2007 08:37 PM

advised, apprentice, apprenticeship, card, cheers, differnt, displayed, folllow, furniture, green, hey, industry, leads, live, major, nsw, penrith, people, project, restoring, ricksull, section, seeking, speak, transport, woodcarving

Replies: 2
Views: 2,096

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th November 2007 05:49 PM; by scooter

Forum:
EMPLOYMENT

Murrindindi18

Started by Murrindindi18, 8th October 2007 04:36 PM

Replies: 4
Views: 1,256

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th October 2007 07:02 PM; by MacS

Forum:
FINISHING

Table top marks easliy! please help

Started by potex, 23rd September 2007 11:35 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advice, applied, apply, beer, ben, bottle, cheers, coats, condition, daisy, danish, easliy, estapol, extra, failed, finish, finished, leave, marks, matt, minwax, oil, polly, restoring, surface, table, top, toughen, tought, wipe

Replies: 27
Views: 3,896

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th September 2007 05:06 PM; by Master Splinter

Forum:
FINISHING

Finishing/staining/varnishing a bookshelf

Started by bresmith, 17th September 2007 04:40 PM

advance, bookshelf, brent, burgundy, cabothane, door, fantastic, fill, finish, gloss, glue, hand, holes, hoping, job, mixed, nail, painted, picked, redwood, restoring, rich, sawdust, stain, stripped, type, varnish, weekends, wondering, woodworking

Replies: 4
Views: 1,891

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th September 2007 03:44 PM; by astrid

Forum:
FINISHING

Filler

Started by L R P, 26th August 2007 09:33 AM

Replies: 9
Views: 2,417

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th September 2007 01:55 PM; by ubeaut

Forum:
FINISHING

restoring marble

Started by helga, 25th September 2005 07:33 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advice, appreciated, benchtop, complete, design, food, helga, incorporate, kitchen, marble, muchly, pasta, pastry, remove, restoring, safe, scored, scratches, sealant, slab, top

Replies: 27
Views: 4,161

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd September 2007 07:44 PM; by seriph1

Forum:
KITCHENS

Restoring an old Pedestal Desk

Started by Lukey, 17th August 2007 04:22 AM

bare, bought, coat, coating, couple, deposits, desk, drawer, fine, finish, handle, held, inlay, intend, layers, leather, meths, pedestal, properly, recoat, remove, removed, replace, restoring, scratched, screws, top, wipe, wood, wool

Replies: 9
Views: 3,423

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th August 2007 09:59 AM; by RufflyRustic

Forum:
FINISHING

Restoring silky oak front onto pine bookscase

Started by Blackout, 28th July 2007 08:19 PM

attached, bookscase, brass, cupboard, dealt, door, doors, examples, facia, frame, front, handles, heavy, hinges, hope, install, keen, locks, mixing, oak, pictures, pine, possibly, recovering, restoring, sanding, silky, sort, suit, timbers

Replies: 4
Views: 2,514

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st July 2007 07:10 PM; by Blackout

Forum:
FINISHING

Restoring old chairs with my 2nd attempt of using shellac

Started by Blackout, 22nd July 2007 03:56 PM

0000, 2nd, aiming, applied, attempt, bring, chair, chairs, cleaning, close, condition, existing, finish, funiture, glass, grain, layer, light, methylated, oil, original, parafin, restoring, retore, rub, rubbed, shellac, steel, step, wool

Replies: 1
Views: 2,771

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd July 2007 08:19 PM; by RufflyRustic

Forum:
FINISHING

Suggestions for restoring fireplace brickwork

Started by GTWAGN, 24th January 2007 10:15 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advance, aesthetic, attached, based, brickwork, cement, cleaned, damaged, fireplace, fireplaces, fix, forum, gtwagn, insert, inside, lighting, lime, mortar, owners, paint, photos, read, refer, render, restoring, suggestions, thinking, time, true, white

Replies: 22
Views: 10,875

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th June 2007 12:49 AM; by Joister

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Cleaning old corry gal

Started by Border boy, 23rd June 2007 09:47 PM

assorted, border, boy, brushing, cleaners, cleaning, corry, deposit, difficult, easier, experts, feature, film, gal, guessing, metho, office, oxidation, plastering, proving, remove, restoring, scrubbing, stuff, surface, tin, wall, white, wiping, wire

Replies: 3
Views: 1,650

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th June 2007 12:19 AM; by China

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

ceiling panel solution needed

Started by LegacyGT, 7th May 2007 10:39 PM

1200, 1220mm, 900, 915mm, ceiling, enuff, flat, floating, granny, installed, insulation, lights, material, needed, odd, panel, panels, restoring, searching, size, solution, standard, strong, suit, support

Replies: 9
Views: 2,094

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th May 2007 07:22 PM; by LegacyGT

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Help with restoring art deco furniture

Started by Frank&Earnest, 10th May 2007 07:30 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

affecting, antique, appears, art, bad, black, blackwood, credenza, darkened, deco, delicate, dining, durable, finished, frank, furniture, furnitures, habit, japan, lot, replace, restoring, sort, stick, stripping, suggestions, summer, sweaty, table, touch

Replies: 15
Views: 7,755

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th May 2007 06:47 PM; by ozwinner

Forum:
FINISHING

Restoring blistered veneer

Started by woodstock16, 28th April 2007 08:58 AM

1900, advice, appears, blister, blistered, called, caused, centre, circa, clock, couple, damage, expert, fiddleback, finish, fix, handy, joined, left, longcase, nice, pendulum, repair, restoring, simple, veneer, veneered, vienna, wondering

Replies: 6
Views: 2,166

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th April 2007 01:00 PM; by ubeaut

Forum:
FINISHING

Restoring baltic pine floor after borer

Started by Joan, 17th March 2007 01:15 PM

appears, apply, baltic, bits, borer, cat, catch, coating, coats, damage, dust, extent, fill, filler, floor, fur, idas, ideas, perfect, pine, restoring, resurface, rough, smoother, soaking, sound, surface, surfaced, tracks, usual

Replies: 1
Views: 3,004

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th March 2007 07:45 AM; by BrissyBrew

Forum:
FLOORING

tiling period fireplaces

Started by Moray, 18th February 2007 11:58 PM

cast, cement, cheers, chip, concrete/cement, cornice, existing, federation, fireplace, fireplaces, floorboards, glazed, hearth, hearths, heath, insert, iron, level, moray, period, picture, repo, restoring, seal, stick, tile, tiles, tiling, understand, wondering

Replies: 1
Views: 1,686

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th February 2007 12:45 AM; by Moray

Forum:
TILING

Restoring 50 yr old Swiss Cow Bells

Started by Buzzer, 8th February 2007 05:25 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

bag, bells, brass, bring, brown, buzzer, cheers, cow, dull, glory, ideas, job, paper, polishing, restoring, set, swiss, touched

Replies: 15
Views: 2,915

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th February 2007 12:50 AM; by journeyman Mick

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Restoring Queenslander Verandah

Started by KiwiSteveH, 3rd February 2007 10:27 PM

baluster, baluster/gap, balusters, couple, decorative, floor, front, hardwood, materials, mid-rail, minds, narrower, original, pine, prefer, queenslander, quotes, rails, re-seal, required, restoring, sand, site, span, suggested, timber, treated, verandah, weather-proof, wider

Replies: 4
Views: 5,744

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th February 2007 12:15 AM; by journeyman Mick

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Restoring Carved doors

Started by Tricky Dicky, 2nd February 2007 03:09 PM

answer, beautiful, bottom, carved, coats, corner, deal, doors, estapol, fortunate, goo, house, impossible, input, meters, paint, question, remove, restoring, retreat, richard, sand, shop, similar, stripper, sun, timber, top, varnished, west

Replies: 0
Views: 1,687

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd February 2007 03:09 PM; by Tricky Dicky

Forum:
FINISHING

Restoring Planes with Citric Acid

Started by thekulman, 31st January 2007 03:41 AM

acid, black, cap, citric, dried, experience, finger, home, inhibit, jappaning, kul, lever, pad, paint, plane, planes, plating, remove, removing, replace, restoring, rubbed, rust, safe, scouring, sided, sprayed, supposed, top, wd-40

Replies: 2
Views: 3,924

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st January 2007 09:09 AM; by jmk89

Forum:
FINISHING

restoring morroccan doors

Started by bondibouy, 7th November 2006 09:15 PM

1250mm, 2700mm, centre, condition, damage, doors, glass, hinges, information, iron, lower, main, missing, morroccan, ornate, pair, panels, picked, restor, restoration, restoring, rust, scrolled, serious, sources, style, surface, timbers, tips, wide

Replies: 2
Views: 1,371

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th November 2006 02:15 PM; by conwood

Forum:
FINISHING

Cedar Restoration

Started by TERRYD, 23rd October 2006 01:23 PM

1870s, austalian, black, cedar, finished, gallons, jap, layers, metho, method, piece, removal, restoration, restoring, steel, tallboy, thick, wool

Replies: 5
Views: 1,781

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th October 2006 12:18 AM; by soundman

Forum:
FINISHING

Restoring Wooden Floor with Traditional Methods

Started by linwood14, 30th September 2006 09:27 PM

alternative, altogether, ambiance, avoid, carpet, compression, detest, drum, floor, forums, glory, heard, methods, modern, original, people, restoring, retain, return, sand, sander, sanding, smooth, stuck, suggestions, timber, traditional, underlay, wondering, wooden

Replies: 6
Views: 2,385

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd October 2006 11:32 AM; by Larry McCully

Forum:
FLOORING

Button shelac

Started by longlux, 7th September 2006 12:37 AM

advised, apply, button, chairs, dining, forum, oak, post, purchased, restoring, shelac, table, wife

Replies: 5
Views: 2,466

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th September 2006 11:47 PM; by soundman

Forum:
FINISHING

Where to get Blackwood kitchen doors in Melbourne (Western suburbs)

Started by b1ueshift, 28th August 2006 02:14 PM

blackwood, cabinet, doors, kitchen, maker, melbourne, restoring, suburbs, suggest, supplier, western

Replies: 0
Views: 3,518

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th August 2006 02:14 PM; by b1ueshift

Forum:
KITCHENS

Masonite

Started by serg, 17th August 2006 08:09 PM

Replies: 3
Views: 2,601

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th August 2006 01:48 PM; by RETIRED

Forum:
FINISHING

Refinishing an old solid timber wardrobe HELP!

Started by SquareBear, 3rd July 2006 12:17 AM

andrew, beautiful, colour, damage, doors, fathers, floor, garden, groove, heavy, house, lived, pics, post, refinishing, restoring, sanded, serious, shed, solid, stains, straighten, teak, timber, tips, tongue, top, wardrobe, warping, water

Replies: 8
Views: 4,098

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th July 2006 12:25 PM; by SquareBear

Forum:
FINISHING

Roof Restoration - Metal/Colourbond Roof

Started by spartan, 29th May 2006 04:00 PM

biggest, brown, colour, condition, couple, downpipes, exception, expensive, faded, forum, geography, guttering, happening, issue, metal or colourbond, metal/colourbond, ordinary, pitfalls, portion, recommendations, replaced, restoration, restorations, restoring, roof, roofs, space, street, tiled, wondering

Replies: 1
Views: 5,763

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th May 2006 04:14 PM; by Zed

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Aluminium Windows

Started by spartan, 28th May 2006 12:27 AM

aluminium, bbq, chap, colour, company, cost, doors, explaining, goldie/bronze, heard, home, recently, replace, restoring, windows

Replies: 3
Views: 1,762

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th May 2006 10:55 AM; by echnidna

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Restoring old arcade cocktail table, suggestions needed

Started by snippy, 8th May 2006 05:15 PM

arcade, beginning, bit, board, bump, cheers, cloudy, cocktail, completely, estapol, finish, floor, gloss, lines, needed, polish, restoring, ruin, snippy, stage, start, suggested, suggestions, table, thinking, told, tub, type, want/need, wooden

Replies: 3
Views: 3,135

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th May 2006 09:12 PM; by ubeaut

Forum:
FINISHING

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