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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: 9,923

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

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RESTORATION

Whats's a simple clear table top finish with maintenance in mind?

Started by Gunnaduit, 30th April 2014 11:18 AM

2-pack, clear, coffee-mug-ringed, desk, easy, equipment, fancy, finish, furniture, fuss, ian, locally, maintain, maintenance, mind, nice, restored, sand, sanded, simple, specialised, spray, stuff, surface, surplus, table, timber, time, tired, top

Replies: 2
Views: 2,029

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th April 2014 01:30 PM; by Gunnaduit

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FINISHING

Newbie

Started by millymydog, 22nd November 2013 11:31 AM

Replies: 6
Views: 1,392

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th November 2013 08:14 AM; by JJF

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

Ouch!

Started by nagled, 11th November 2013 08:58 PM

Replies: 8
Views: 1,929

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th November 2013 01:59 PM; by Christos

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

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: 1,560

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd October 2013 09:01 AM; by ykfc

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RESTORATION

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: 1,331

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th October 2013 01:16 PM; by bassmansimon

Forum:
RESTORATION

wanted a french polisher to do a task for me (Melbourne)

Started by AlpineRaven, 12th September 2013 08:18 PM

advance, apologise, cheers, clock, condition, dial, door, due, evening, french, leg, mantle, melbourne, memory, nickel, paintwork, passed, piece, plated, polished, polisher, relatives, restored, sanded, sort, task, top, veneer, wanted, wrong

Replies: 2
Views: 1,979

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th September 2013 10:39 PM; by RETIRED

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FINISHING

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

Replies: 2
Views: 1,645

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th August 2013 08:46 PM; by gyropilot

Forum:
RESTORATION

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

Replies: 4
Views: 5,986

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd July 2013 11:25 PM; by Master Splinter

Forum:
RESTORATION

Hello from sunny Canberra

Started by Cobralico, 5th July 2013 09:26 PM

1960s, advice, beautiful, canberra, children, couple, dining, enjoyed, forum, furniture, hobby, leave, parker, pieces, purchased, recently, restoration, restored, sarcastic, subject, sunny, table, time, uni

Replies: 9
Views: 1,199

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th July 2013 04:30 PM; by Cobralico

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

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: 1,559

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

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FINISHING

Gloss to Mat finish for old Jarrah floorboard

Started by Ymo, 7th May 2013 12:12 AM

add, applied, attractive, beauty, concern, connection, experience, feedback, finish, floor, floorboard, giving, gloss, glossy, jarrah, layer, mat, matt, objective, option, product, restored, sanding, similar, situation, synthetic, tactile, tips, varnish, wood

Replies: 12
Views: 9,672

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th June 2013 09:12 AM; by AngelaPetruzzi

Forum:
FINISHING

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

Replies: 8
Views: 2,177

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd May 2013 07:39 PM; by CMB

Forum:
RESTORATION

Hi from Jim

Started by jim.s, 13th December 2012 10:32 PM

95%, advance, bricks, eastern, electrician, experience, forum, forward, helps, hope, interaction, jim, learning, live, looked, mark, materials, months, offer, past, patient, re-cycled, restored, return, suburbs, sydneys, tradesperson, tricky, wife, windows

Replies: 6
Views: 1,184

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th December 2012 05:42 PM; by crowie

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

Help! This desk needs to be restored!

Started by chonges, 26th October 2012 10:57 AM

50s, absolute, advice, attached, desk, feedback, fixing, forum, furniture, home, hoping, newbie, photos, promptly, recently, restoration, restored, retro, style

Replies: 1
Views: 1,163

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th October 2012 02:45 PM; by Lawry01

Forum:
RESTORATION

Restoring a blackwood deco table - first-timer!

Started by MissCassy, 3rd August 2012 02:08 PM

advice, appears, art, blackwood, deco, dining, finishes, firsttimer, glossy, gorgeous, hope, legs, love, main, natural, nick, oil, pine, ply, pretty, requires, restoration, restored, restoring, similar, simple, solid, stripped, table, timber

Replies: 6
Views: 2,851

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th August 2012 02:14 PM; by Horsecroft88

Forum:
RESTORATION

Morris Chair Restoration

Started by Rice701, 14th June 2012 12:13 PM

4.will, alright, broken, chair, dowels, drilled, epoxy, falling, finish, finished, glue, grips, holes, joints, keeping, morris, original, pictures, previous, project, re-glue, recently, remained, removed, restoration, restored, slowly, sound, type, vice

Replies: 4
Views: 2,608

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th August 2012 08:24 PM; by Antipodes

Forum:
RESTORATION

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: 10,386

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th July 2012 11:19 PM; by Lawry01

Forum:
RESTORATION

Kitchen Hutch finsh & restoration

Started by dragit, 3rd November 2011 09:09 PM

banging, bath, colour, condition, deserves, finsh, furniture, grain, handles, hutch, idea, kitchen, nice, novice, original, outlay, phone, photos, piece, pieces, plan, raised, refinish, restoration, restored, rinse, rub, semi-circular…, timber, unit

Replies: 5
Views: 2,667

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th March 2012 11:02 AM; by dragit

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RESTORATION

Fler and TH Brown finishing for a newbie

Started by benji, 30th January 2012 03:13 PM

advance, applying, basically, benji, brown, chairs, cheers, danish, era, experience, finish, finishing, fler, future, giving, glossy, honey, hoping, lighter, limited, newbie, oil, pretty, redoing, reference, restored, sand, semi, teak, timber

Replies: 0
Views: 1,583

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th January 2012 03:13 PM; by benji

Forum:
FINISHING

Desk to be restored

Started by Sparhawk, 25th February 2009 09:50 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

attached, background, bottom, desk, draws, dust, easily, functional, guess, half, hazzard, idea, lot, meant, melbourne, nails, photos, pictures, piece, potential, price, questions, restore, restored, restorer, slant, splits, store, type, vintage

Replies: 17
Views: 4,792

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th January 2012 07:47 PM; by Christos

Forum:
RESTORATION

help with restoration strategy 40s-50s style veneered buffet

Started by satyanchari, 30th December 2011 05:08 PM

40s-50s, 40s50s, appears, bucks, buffet, cheers, closer, follow, garage, gentle, initially, inspection, intention, nice, observations, picked, pictures, piece, post, restoration, restored, sale, satyan, sparkle, strategy, style, timber, veneer, veneered

Replies: 6
Views: 2,054

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2012 12:53 AM; by satyanchari

Forum:
RESTORATION

30-40 year old Aus. Cedar Coffee Table

Started by woodgrain, 15th September 2011 02:31 PM

3040, aus, cedar, chip, coffee, diy, equipment, figure, garden, grain, grateful, guidance, item, options, paid, pics, provide, recycle, repair, restoration, restored, sell, similar, table, timber, time/money, top, wood, worth, year

Replies: 3
Views: 2,338

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th September 2011 10:41 PM; by rustynail

Forum:
RESTORATION

My restoration projects

Started by mark david, 9th August 2011 03:36 PM

19th, bearable, bought, century, condition, damp, ebay, favourite, fit, for.it, horses, major, pieces, projects, real, reasonable, resold, restoration, restored, selection, sold, stable, summer, tough, u.k, uploaded, winters, workshop

Replies: 7
Views: 1,809

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th August 2011 07:56 PM; by mark david

Forum:
RESTORATION

Ye Olde Telephone

Started by RedShirtGuy, 13th July 2011 05:50 PM

anyhoo, car, carting, conjunction, dates, dirty, finishes, home, hooked, house, knowledge, machine, managed, material, modern, move, olde, original, partially, phone, phone/answering, plan, research, restore, restored, stick, storage, stuff, telephone, wireless

Replies: 7
Views: 2,010

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th July 2011 09:59 PM; by rogerjenkins

Forum:
RESTORATION

Sprung cushions

Started by jane123, 24th January 2010 12:39 AM

advise, ago, chairs, cushions, direction, fashioned, foam, jane, job, lounge, love, preference, purchased, recently, remake, replaced, restored, reupholstering, rubber, searched, sofas, sprung, suite, time, web

Replies: 5
Views: 4,568

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th March 2011 03:35 PM; by TheDad

Forum:
UPHOLSTERY

Dardanup Heritage Park

Started by beer is good, 11th March 2011 01:08 PM

150km, beer, bunbury, dardanup, engine, engines, fans, flickr, good2011s, heritage, history, north, operating, park, perth, photos, photostream, powered, restored, sawmill, saws, shots, south, steam, thinking, tools, tractors, travelled, visit, worth

Replies: 0
Views: 1,290

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th March 2011 01:08 PM; by beer is good

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NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

New life for Neddy

Started by toolbagsPLUS, 8th December 2010 09:06 AM

agistment, cheers, christmas, delivered, life, neddy, restored, stable, steve, time, week, workshop

Replies: 4
Views: 1,180

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th December 2010 02:23 PM; by mark david

Forum:
RESTORATION

Restoring a huon pine dresser top

Started by Horsecroft88, 12th August 2010 02:07 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1826, 220, 360, allowing, boards, carefully, coats, dresser, final, finally, fine, glueing, grade, home, huon, nailing, pad, paint, piece, pine, pinning, previously, process, restored, restoring, sanding, shellac, steel, top, wool

Replies: 16
Views: 9,124

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th September 2010 02:05 PM; by Horsecroft88

Forum:
RESTORATION

bentwood seats

Started by gda27, 8th August 2010 06:52 PM

assume, bentwood, cane, chair, chairs, commonly, found, gda, holes, nailed, patterned, plywood, poster, press, pressed, rattan, restored, restorer, seat, seats, skills, soft, sufficient, supplier, supply, sydney, time, tools, understanding, woven

Replies: 5
Views: 5,933

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th August 2010 10:00 PM; by Drek

Forum:
RESTORATION

Restoring Oregon Pine Furniture

Started by Arry, 4th January 2010 10:29 PM

ago, close, coffee, colour, darker, dining, finish, furniture, golden, grit, guys, heaps, idea, kindly, minus, minutes, orange, oregon, parents-in-law, pine, question, restored, restoring, sander, scratches, spent, table, tables, wife, wood

Replies: 14
Views: 18,130

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th June 2010 08:52 PM; by Arry

Forum:
FINISHING

Changing from Shellac finish

Started by Wombat2, 4th June 2010 11:54 PM

ago, cedar, changing, completely, daily, durable, family, father, fine, finish, french, lacquer/polyester, marks, methylated, mother-in-law, paint, polished, restored, sand, shellac, smooth, spirits, spray, stains, strip, table, water, wedding, wife, wrinkled

Replies: 3
Views: 1,437

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th June 2010 10:32 AM; by RufflyRustic

Forum:
FINISHING

Is there a chair doctor in the house?

Started by derekcohen, 14th May 2010 04:08 AM

ago, ash, beech, boards, chair, chairs, derek, doctor, epoxy, front, glue, glued, house, leaves, leg, lower, perth, pieces, push, repair, restored, section, sections, solid, son, supported, surgery, tenon, top, view

Replies: 12
Views: 2,644

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd May 2010 12:06 AM; by ian

Forum:
RESTORATION

Abbey French Polish and Spray

Started by Abbeyfrenchpoli, 13th December 2009 03:02 PM

abbey, abbeyspray, ago, answer, brisbane, buy, contact, dave, email, expertise, facebook, french, furniture, gday, happy, items, live.com, north, obligation, polish, properly, questions, restored, servicing, share, spray, trade, trained, treasured, troubles

Replies: 11
Views: 3,148

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd January 2010 07:40 AM; by Jabbagutt

Forum:
RESTORATION

New antique restorer and french polisher on the Sunshine Coast Qld

Started by Abbeyfrenchpoli, 13th December 2009 03:00 PM

abbey, abbey french polish, abbeyspray, antique, brisbane, buy, cabinetry finishing, coast, facebook, french, french polisher, furniture, furniture painting, happy, items, live.com, north, polish, polisher, qld, questions, restoration, restored, restorer, share, spray, sunshine, sunshine coast, treasured, troubles

Replies: 0
Views: 2,351

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th December 2009 03:00 PM; by Abbeyfrenchpoli

Forum:
FINISHING

1960s Parker sideboard

Started by Boweimar, 17th October 2009 02:47 PM

1960s, absolutely, advice, approached, behaves, bit, broken, completely, condition, edges, era, inside, lining, parker, peeling, perfect, perfectly, replacing, restoration, restored, restoring, sideboard, structually, stuff, sue, teak, terrible, understand, veneer, wondering

Replies: 0
Views: 1,980

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th October 2009 02:47 PM; by Boweimar

Forum:
FINISHING

childs oak rocker

Started by ralphtaff, 3rd October 2009 11:33 AM

bad, chair, child, childs, craks, dead, doels, dry, father, fill, gaps, oak, ralphtaff@yahoo.com, restored, rocker, shrunk, suggestions, wood

Replies: 0
Views: 1,082

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd October 2009 11:33 AM; by ralphtaff

Forum:
RESTORATION

Cricket Bat Restoration

Started by tree_bear, 7th July 2009 04:07 PM

apparently, assistance, bat, belonged, collectable, cricket, father, gift, husbands, passed, recommend, restoration, restore, restored

Replies: 8
Views: 6,220

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th August 2009 05:42 PM; by Cicatrix

Forum:
RESTORATION

restoring English oak

Started by jane123, 3rd July 2009 12:55 PM

1920, accompanied, achieve, achieved, acquired, advise, answers, balance, circa, cleaning, condition, delicate, dusty, english, finish, forum, found, history, lounge, mistaken, oak, pieces, quality, restored, restoring, searched, suite, suspect, timber, touched

Replies: 11
Views: 2,163

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th August 2009 07:02 PM; by jane123

Forum:
FINISHING

good advice

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 10th May 2009 08:00 PM

2tsup, appreciated, book, bunch, colours, easy, fretwork, home, hrs, ideas, inside, located, materials, online, pinch, possum, purchase, qlders, read, recomend, renovateforum.com, restored, sebt, shop, stuff, thread, transported, unable, website, whitsundays

Replies: 0
Views: 946

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th May 2009 08:00 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

reno advice

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 10th May 2009 07:30 PM

2tsup, advice, appreciated, book, bunch, colours, easy, fretwork, home, house, hrs, ideas, inside, online, pinch, possum, purchase, qlders, read, recomend, renovateforum.com, renovating, restored, sebt, shop, stuff, thread, unable, website, whitsundays

Replies: 0
Views: 1,072

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th May 2009 07:30 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Another New Member

Started by chambezio, 31st March 2009 09:30 PM

allsorts, aquiring, build, cars, couple, fabrication, folder, footprint, gentettes, grew, home.but, house, jobs, life, manufacturing, member, metal, metres, neil, restored, shed, shed.then, sheetmetal, signed, story, tools, trade, weeks, welding, woodturning

Replies: 8
Views: 1,349

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd April 2009 08:34 PM; by Bluegum

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

help with buffet identification

Started by deanne mudford, 6th December 2008 02:16 PM

1950, alex, appreciated, attached, bottom, buffet, cheers, date, deanne, drawer, drawers, european, faintly, federal, identification, identifying, inside, labour, manufactured, photos, piece, pre, printed, read, restored, stamp, stamped, tarted, understanding, veneer

Replies: 4
Views: 2,490

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th December 2008 10:48 PM; by deanne mudford

Forum:
RESTORATION

Phil in Rosetta

Started by Phil Hansen, 30th November 2008 07:28 PM

africa, busy, cheers, database, deg, drakensberg, e29, engines, hansen, howzit, love, machines, nutshell, owwm, phil, play, restored, rosetta, shop, sisters, solid, south, stuff, support, tired, toyshop, tractors, village, wreck

Replies: 10
Views: 2,034

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd December 2008 09:37 PM; by artme

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

Finishing a restored 60yo timber floor

Started by bnpenty, 29th February 2008 05:23 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

$250, 2mm, 60yo, bit, blackbutt, cypress, dealing, filler, finish, finishing, floor, flooring, gaps, hallway, laid, loose, maintenance, month, nailing, odd, original, polishing, recipe, restored, sanding, stage, timber, toxic, trafficable, zealously

Replies: 19
Views: 3,577

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th March 2008 01:53 AM; by bnpenty

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Anythoughts on Rockcote acrylic sealer/undercoat

Started by prof_montoya, 7th March 2008 08:37 AM

acrylic, anythoughts, avoid, based, oil, plaster, restored, rockcote, sealer or undercoat, sealer/binder, sealer/undercoat, solid, solvent, walls

Replies: 0
Views: 1,206

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th March 2008 08:37 AM; by prof_montoya

Forum:
PAINTING, PLASTERING, TILING, DECORATING, etc.

Done floors, now doors are too short

Started by buffalobill, 15th February 2008 07:38 PM

carpets, core, door, doors, extension, floors, front, guys, hollow, house, limits, match, nice, oak, options, original, parquet, pieces, pine, plain, presume, restored, rhodesian, short, study, teak, thinking, triangular, veneer, william

Replies: 14
Views: 2,970

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th February 2008 06:06 PM; by abitfishy

Forum:
FLOORING

Dodger

Started by Huggo, 16th December 2007 07:44 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 1,072

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th December 2007 07:44 PM; by Huggo

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

converting built in gutters anyone want to do it?

Started by Gravy258, 4th November 2007 11:53 AM

14m, boards, built, converting, corner, desperately, doneor, fascia, gutters, house, job, nasty, outlet, pain, planning, pointers, price, rear, recently, restored, rip, ripping, roof, rotten, run, sort, sqs, tackle, tiles, tradies

Replies: 0
Views: 1,166

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th November 2007 11:53 AM; by Gravy258

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Match red pine colour

Started by meo, 15th September 2007 12:22 PM

andrew, approximate, archs, close, colour, commercial, doors, found, hints, lot, maple, match, matching, pine, pink, real, recipe, red, restored, skirts, stains, start, starting, suggestions, testing, understand, white

Replies: 1
Views: 1,536

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th September 2007 01:20 PM; by echnidna

Forum:
FINISHING

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