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Black French Polished Piano

Started by Rosalie, 9th October 2005 03:36 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

100, beutiful, black, comments, crown, finding, french, piano, polished, polisher, polishers, restore, restoring, ronisch, told, tuner, worth, yrs

Replies: 15
Views: 4,852

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th October 2021 02:48 PM; by old1955

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FINISHING

Are old compressors worth rescuing?

Started by rogerwilco, 15th June 2021 11:15 PM

basic, buy, compact, compressors, drain, finishes, guess, hear, honest, including, job, labour, leaky, motor, noisy, oil, option, owes, regulator, restore, rusty, shop, spray, strong, suit, unit, valve, water, westhered, worth

Replies: 13
Views: 4,695

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd June 2021 03:00 PM; by AndrewOC

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SPRAY FINISHES, AIR BRUSHING & DECORATIVE FINISHES

Help wanted to restore small, black (japanned?) note box

Started by nicked74, 20th June 2018 02:47 PM

antique, antique and vintage, black japan, box, finish or restore, help or advice, japan, mdf, restore

Replies: 5
Views: 2,001

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th June 2018 08:11 PM; by Blackout

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RESTORATION

Old Chair Needs Restoring

Started by EagerBeaver71, 10th July 2017 05:14 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

Replies: 18
Views: 2,430

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th July 2017 08:55 PM; by Arron

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RESTORATION

Let's restore some dignity to this cedar chest

Started by Thumbthumper, 20th September 2013 12:35 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

1880, 286103286108, 286107, 286109, bring, cedar, character, chest, dignity, dovetails, drawer, drawers, facing, front, kauri, keeper, nails, plane, post, pretty, removes, restore, restored, ruined, section, stripper, surface, surviving, top, wip

Replies: 51
Views: 9,926

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th July 2016 10:14 AM; by Thumbthumper

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RESTORATION

Decking timber restore

Started by touch107fm, 8th July 2015 04:13 PM

Replies: 5
Views: 1,529

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st August 2015 11:02 AM; by Bob38S

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RESTORATION

Old box find and restore

Started by centron-sg1, 6th February 2015 10:43 AM

Replies: 12
Views: 2,166

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th February 2015 08:43 AM; by auscab

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RESTORATION

Restoration of teak table and chairs

Started by awaye, 28th June 2009 06:26 PM

ago, appeares, cabinet, chairs, deep, dining, doh, edging, family, fond, laquered, legs, matching, planning, remove, repairs, restoration, restore, scraper, scratched, solid, sratches, suggestions, table, teak, top, tops, veneer, veneered, worn

Replies: 4
Views: 5,325

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th December 2014 06:58 AM; by meggg

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RESTORATION

Clean & Restore Teak Parker Chairs

Started by mtchairs, 23rd August 2014 04:35 PM

Replies: 5
Views: 5,457

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd October 2014 08:39 PM; by Xanthorrhoeas

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RESTORATION

G'day from Perth

Started by shinbones, 5th May 2014 11:06 PM

admit, belonged, carpenter, chest, forum, gday, grandfather, grateful, hands, heaps, identification, improving, makes, mistake, mystery, perth, pics, plan, post, preserve, pretty, restore, scott, slowly, tools

Replies: 8
Views: 1,464

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th May 2014 10:25 PM; by crowie

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

Refinishing weathered exterior windows

Started by Sharif_S, 6th April 2014 12:55 PM

309439, acrylic, bit, casement, coat, dulux, era, exterior, glory, grain, guess, guys, ideas, lot, magic, oak, paint, refinishing, restore, silky, solid, solution, timber, treat, undercoat/top, weathered, windows, wondering, wood, ww2

Replies: 2
Views: 1,314

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th April 2014 10:08 PM; by Sharif_S

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FINISHING

New here and new to woodworking.

Started by Jr186262, 17th March 2014 03:27 PM

1970s, 307636, atomic, collection, cut, discuss, electrical, engineering, finish, hey, minor, people, photos, physics, process, repairs, restore, speakers, step, straight, theology, theory, time, tools, understand, veneered, veneers, walnut, wood, woodworking

Replies: 1
Views: 1,390

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th March 2014 06:48 PM; by old1955

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RESTORATION

Hi from Sydney

Started by SydneySam, 24th February 2014 07:11 PM

advance, checking, cut, dumb, einhell, excuse, fence, fence;, follow, forum, forward, furniture, gaining, hopeless, hours, info, jointer, list, looked, planer, questions, restore, sam, spent, square, started, stuff, sydney, table, wealth

Replies: 9
Views: 1,685

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd March 2014 06:36 PM; by Christos

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

How to restore this coffee table.?

Started by Coffeegirl, 16th February 2014 12:30 PM

attach, beginners, bought, called, coffee, correct, damage, ebay, edges, electric, furniture, grain, hope, husband, legs, neaten, particleboard, perfect, photos, posting, restoration, restore, resurface, sanders, table, top, wat

Replies: 3
Views: 2,098

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd February 2014 07:33 PM; by Optimark

Forum:
RESTORATION

restoring a red cedar table and chairs

Started by Kev Y., 15th February 2014 04:57 PM

answer, begin, bookcasewall, cedar, chairs, colour, dining, finish, finished, gloss, installing, internet, kev, matt, original, pack, paint, plan, question, red, restore, restoring, sand, semi/satin, striped, swmbo, swmbos, table, timber, unit

Replies: 0
Views: 1,424

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th February 2014 04:57 PM; by Kev Y.

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FINISHING

Forum privileges

Started by Scott, 3rd November 2013 04:02 PM

account/username, address, bug, changed, cheers, details, email, forum, inbox, information, limit, privileges, restore, stripped, system, view

Replies: 5
Views: 1,405

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th January 2014 02:01 PM; by Stevexlv

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FORUMS INFO, HELP, DISCUSSION & FEEDBACK

Calling all lathe-masters!

Started by gbossley, 1st January 2014 05:12 PM

armrest, beer, calling, cash, chair, cheers, determined, gordon, happy, lathe, lathe-masters, lathemasters, missing, pay, piece, possibly, rescued, restore, squatters, template, timber, upright, uprights

Replies: 7
Views: 2,128

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd January 2014 08:42 PM; by gbossley

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RESTORATION

steps to restore chisel?

Started by chisel22, 20th November 2013 09:06 PM

cast, chisel, covered, handle, restore, rust, simple, steel, steps, wooden

Replies: 1
Views: 1,129

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st November 2013 08:56 PM; by scrounger

Forum:
RESTORATION

Advice on these aluminium windows - picture included

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 7th November 2013 04:10 PM

advice, aluminium, approx, approximate, complete, cost, cover, existing, facelift, fence, front, guess, guys, included, landscaping, paint, picture, planning, property, read, render, renovateforum.com, replacing, reply, restore, thread, window, windows, worth

Replies: 0
Views: 1,510

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th November 2013 04:10 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

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: 1,544

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st October 2013 07:10 PM; by Horsecroft88

Forum:
RESTORATION

help need to restore chairs

Started by tunnel, 5th September 2013 09:14 PM

284078, advice, birthday, chairs, finish, mums, restore, simple

Replies: 3
Views: 1,361

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th September 2013 10:55 AM; by Master Splinter

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RESTORATION

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

Replies: 1
Views: 1,484

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd July 2013 08:23 PM; by Horsecroft88

Forum:
RESTORATION

Hello from Sunny Brisbane

Started by Flower9122, 8th July 2013 10:55 PM

1970s, brisbane, cheers, circa, crossed, fingers, fixer, furniture, gorgeous, house, husband, iris, oak, piece, plan, project, purchased, restore, short-term, sideboard, silky, slow, sunny, weatherboard

Replies: 5
Views: 1,528

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th July 2013 12:15 AM; by Christos

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

traditional wax drying out?

Started by 3 toed sloth, 2nd July 2013 10:30 AM

add, bit, buff, consistency, creamy, day, dryer, drying, found, harder, jar, margerine, original, peter, restore, traditional, usable, wax

Replies: 13
Views: 2,010

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd July 2013 07:00 PM; by Chesand

Forum:
FINISHING

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: 1,917

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th June 2013 06:25 PM; by Normanj

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RESTORATION

Brunswick Furniture company

Started by Erose, 6th June 2013 11:55 AM

ability, antique, art, bottom, brunswick, company, crazy, cupboard, deco, dinning, dull, family, fix, front, frosted, furniture, glass, look.271228271227271226, looked, love, paint, real, removed, restore, restored, restoring, table, top, varnish, veneer

Replies: 4
Views: 1,561

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th June 2013 01:03 AM; by Neil Ellis

Forum:
FINISHING

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

Replies: 8
Views: 5,086

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th May 2013 01:17 AM; by AnselmFraser

Forum:
RESTORATION

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

Replies: 1
Views: 2,674

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th April 2013 11:08 PM; by JB

Forum:
RESTORATION

Julia has troubles

Started by Allan at Wallan, 23rd March 2013 05:03 PM

allan, assist, cabinet, club, collapses, gillard, julia, rang, restore, ring, told, totally, troubles, woodturning

Replies: 4
Views: 1,208

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th March 2013 03:17 PM; by rod1949

Forum:
JOKES

What finish is this? Restoration of Art nouveau piece

Started by Dukebox, 5th December 2012 08:09 PM

advice, appreciated, art, attempting, colour, finish, further.i, head, hoping, match, nouveau, original, picked, piece, post, prior, read, removal, restoration, restore, return, stain, start.and, state.any, stretch, stripping, techniques, test, time, well.cheers

Replies: 11
Views: 2,526

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th March 2013 03:42 PM; by Dukebox

Forum:
FINISHING

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: 1,600

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th February 2013 11:54 PM; by dhubilant

Forum:
RESTORATION

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

Replies: 2
Views: 2,439

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th February 2013 08:50 AM; by Horsecroft88

Forum:
RESTORATION

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

Replies: 5
Views: 1,931

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th February 2013 01:00 PM; by Lawry01

Forum:
RESTORATION

Restoring the natural beauty of smoked sheesham

Started by simonmx, 13th January 2013 10:42 PM

249526, advance, attached, beauty, bit, colours, contrasts, difference, dining, distinctive, forum, laquer, left, losing, lost, lot, maintain, method, natural, oil, photo, restore, restoring, sheesham, shiny, smoked, table, thinking, untreated, wax

Replies: 0
Views: 1,137

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th January 2013 10:42 PM; by simonmx

Forum:
FINISHING

Newbee needs help to restore some lovely old chairs

Started by Girlatsea, 24th November 2012 11:13 AM

advice, answer, approach, bit, blackwood, blank, brown, chairs, christmas, colour, determine, drawn, finish, font, forum, gleaming, googling, internet, learned, lovely, luck, metho, newbee, photo, restore, retain, seat, step, surface, timber

Replies: 4
Views: 1,398

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th November 2012 01:59 PM; by fudo133

Forum:
RESTORATION

Newbee Restoration 101

Started by nickmm22, 10th October 2012 03:55 PM

101, 236289236291236288236290, advice, books, bunch, classes, course/documentation, direction, filing, follow, furniture, gday, home, item, job, line, newbee, pictures, product, project, restoration, restore, segment, sign, sound, specific, structurally, time, tray, wooden

Replies: 1
Views: 1,499

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th October 2012 02:56 PM; by Lawry01

Forum:
RESTORATION

Red Cedar Windows Cracking

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 23rd October 2012 07:20 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 1,661

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd October 2012 07:20 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Red Cedar Windows Faded and Small Cracks

Started by leightheman, 22nd October 2012 10:53 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 1,631

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd October 2012 10:53 PM; by leightheman

Forum:
FINISHING

Restoration old silky oak wardrobe

Started by angelmark, 28th July 2012 06:18 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

assume, blonde, bring, dark, dewaxed, dirt, encourage, fairly, feel, finish, furniture, golden/honey, grime, guys, mention, newbie, oak, quickly, reading, restoration, restore, shellac, silky, steelwool, suggestions, threads, tone, wardrobe, wood, yellow/golden/honey

Replies: 52
Views: 10,564

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th October 2012 06:56 PM; by Lawry01

Forum:
RESTORATION

rejuvanating a kitchen bench

Started by ghowe, 24th August 2012 12:20 AM

appears, bearing, bench, benches, clean, colour, contact, cupboards, food, hard-use, involve, kitchen, mind, peel, pine, pretty, products, project, rejuvanating, restore, sale, scratch, shape, stained, suggested, surface, surfaces, taking, varnish, varnished

Replies: 4
Views: 1,482

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th August 2012 05:38 PM; by ghowe

Forum:
FINISHING

Antique bed - how to approach repairs?

Started by conomum, 4th August 2012 01:51 PM

advice, antique, approach, bad, bed, carport, causing, coloured, complete, contact, current, damage, finish, hoping, job, location, novice, polyurethane, pva, quick, repairs, restore, restorer, splits, storage, taking, walnut, wonderful, wood, woodworker

Replies: 2
Views: 1,525

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th August 2012 06:32 PM; by Lawry01

Forum:
RESTORATION

Restoration ethics??

Started by danangles, 8th July 2012 05:50 PM

animal, authentic, belonged, chair, chairs, cheers, dan, detract, dining, endeavouring, ethics, glue, grandmother, hessian, horse, joints, materials, modern, moment, pieces, replace, resale, restoration, restore, setting, sold, springs, wifes

Replies: 10
Views: 2,613

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th August 2012 06:39 PM; by jimbur

Forum:
RESTORATION

Greetings from Wollongong.

Started by conomum, 4th August 2012 02:35 PM

70s, advice, cheers, developing, forum, forward, hands, hope, kitchen, kylie, live, minded, months, mum, offcuts, optimistic, people, potter, reno, restore, set, skills, sort, stuff, tools, upcoming, wollongong, woodworking, workshop, worthwhile

Replies: 4
Views: 1,184

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th August 2012 08:13 AM; by Christos

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

Restore 1930s Art Deco Dining Table Burr Walnut Veneer

Started by Eddzter1978, 29th April 2012 12:21 AM

1930s, advice, appreciated, art, attch, brilliant, burr, chairs, deco, dining, fan, finish, forum, huge, informative, lots, lovely, period, pictures, pieces, poor/flaky/lifting, restore, restorer, restoring, skills, table, threads, tips, veneer, walnut

Replies: 5
Views: 8,447

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th August 2012 12:47 AM; by Antipodes

Forum:
RESTORATION

Restoring kitchen timber bench top

Started by ingin1, 29th July 2012 12:44 PM

apply, bench, clamp, coat, colour, constructed, cracks, destruction, easily, epoxy, fill, filler, glue, ian, kitchen, major, manner, polyurethane, product, question, removed, restore, restoring, suggest, surrounding, timber, tinted, top, track, wood

Replies: 2
Views: 7,701

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th July 2012 09:25 PM; by rogerjenkins

Forum:
FINISHING

restoring outdoor furniture

Started by ofr1, 6th July 2012 08:34 AM

apply, appreciated, bear, chairs, clean, condition, finish, furniture, grain, grime, lot, oil, oiling, outdoor, products, restore, restoring, sand, sanded, solid, teak, timber, time, user, varied

Replies: 7
Views: 2,192

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th July 2012 10:42 AM; by Chief012

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RESTORATION

?blackwood extendable dining table.

Started by aljenit, 8th July 2012 06:34 PM

?blackwood, blackwood, broken, busy, call, called, coming, dining, extendable, fashioned, flat, insert, job, mechanism, replacement, restore, restorers, rod, table, threaded

Replies: 2
Views: 1,869

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th July 2012 05:59 PM; by aljenit

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RESTORATION

nasties hiding under the dust

Started by Chief012, 25th June 2012 09:36 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

100, appreciated, cam, cedar, cheers, clean, cleaning, cockroach, crud, dust, finish, hard, hiding, howards, hugely, ideas, left, loving, mark, nasties, odd, original, piece, process, restoration, restore, scrub, spoil, wardrobe, worried

Replies: 19
Views: 2,997

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd July 2012 10:27 AM; by Chief012

Forum:
RESTORATION

Help repairing a wooden stand

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 27th June 2012 03:40 AM

answer, anymore, appreciated, bottom, broken, close, cracked, damage, damaged, door, due, gap, leaving, material, medium, properly, read, renovateforum.com, repair, reply, restore, restores, screw, size, sydney, tank, thread, tia, water, wood

Replies: 0
Views: 864

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th June 2012 03:40 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Teak Oil problem

Started by jsvensson, 20th June 2012 12:08 AM

//j, afraid, balau, bought, brown, colour, dark, decking, desperate, dirty, house, kirai, moved, nice, oil, original, owner, previous, problem, propper, red, red/brownish, replaced, restore, stained, superb, teak, teknos, wood, worse

Replies: 1
Views: 1,816

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st June 2012 12:38 PM; by .Oxy

Forum:
FINISHING

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