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  1. Keeping teaks prefinished colour

    Started by dingoshred, 1st April 2011 05:40 PM
    advise, apprentice, carpenter, chairs, colour, deterring, existing, expense, extra, finish, furniture, keeping, legs, lighter, pre-finished, pre-sanding, prefinished, preserve, pretty, recreating, retro, sam, sanded, sourcing, stuff, table, teak, teaks, template, timber
    • Replies: 6
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    Clinton1
    7th April 2011, 10:17 PM Go to last post

  2. critters living in old gramophone

    Started by scubabob, 29th March 2011 07:54 PM
    ago, bar-d-k, bits, cabots, care, critters, dispose, doubt, effect, finish, fix, foot, fretwork, gramophone, holes, house, including, leg, living, missing, offered, residence, residentual, tiny, wondering
    • Replies: 4
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    scubabob
    31st March 2011, 08:06 PM Go to last post

  3. silky oak frames?

    Started by tmd85, 19th March 2011 11:58 PM
    bare, black, carving, clue, decorative, edges, frames, grain, knowledge, oak, painted, picture, pretty, question, sanding, silky, tia
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 1,870
    woodhunt
    21st March 2011, 05:56 PM Go to last post

  4. How to Lighten Timber

    Started by prime, 24th February 2011 09:53 AM
    attempted, cabinet, cedar, colour, dear, lighten, lighter, lightly, modify, note, prime, prior, red, region, rest, result, sand, sanded, sanding, slightly, timber, varnish, varnished, woodworkers, yellow, yellow/orange
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,557
    AnselmFraser
    17th March 2011, 05:37 AM Go to last post

  5. Help with a partners Desk restoration project

    Started by BrentonSpear, 9th January 2011 03:04 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    158112, 158113, 158114, 2tsup, advice, appreciated, brenton, damage, desk, drawer, finish, fix, forum, handles, lock, mechanisms, metho, missing, partners, piece, project, read, rest, restoration, source, steel, strip, top, wood, wool
    • Replies: 23
    • Views: 5,791
    auscab
    13th March 2011, 11:44 AM Go to last post

  6. Please help

    Started by racks, 7th March 2011 01:22 PM
    afraid, bit, blanket, box, corners, disheartened, ebay, home, joints, looked, nail, origianl, particually, photo, pictured, planned, ply, pull, purchased, restoring, strip, strong, time, top, waste, wonky
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,668
    Clinton1
    10th March 2011, 03:19 PM Go to last post

  7. My latest project completed - Mahogany chest of drawers

    Started by Horsecroft88, 13th December 2010 01:55 PM
    0000, 360, alternatively, antique, applied, bees, chest, coats, completed, cost, couple, drawer, drawers, english, excellent, finally, finish, grade, latest, mahogany, metho, pine, project, sale, shellac, stain, steel, thinned, wax, wool 3 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 12
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    Horsecroft88
    28th February 2011, 01:47 PM Go to last post

  8. Mortice gauge restoration

    Started by rsser, 19th February 2011 03:23 PM
    advice, brass, cheapie, ebay, finish, folks, gauge, milky, mortice, nick, polished, removed, restoration, sharp, welcomed
    • Replies: 4
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    China
    27th February 2011, 09:34 PM Go to last post

  9. Plane restoration

    Started by brandy20, 23rd February 2011 05:59 AM
    hand, luca, plane, planes, record, restoration, restoring, site, surfing, web
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,752
    rsser
    26th February 2011, 03:54 PM Go to last post

  10. Silky Oak table & fitted chairs

    Started by iron bark, 18th February 2011 10:56 AM
    70s, ago, appreciated, aquired, attached, bought, chairs, clue, common, day, familiar, fitted, furniture.edit, grateful, idea, oak, pic, possibly, read, restoring, silky, swmbo, table, tells, toowoomba, type, wife
    • Replies: 1
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    RufflyRustic
    18th February 2011, 02:16 PM Go to last post

  11. Discoloured, warped, slightly cracked table.

    Started by tandata, 3rd February 2011 05:07 PM
    afford, appreciated, begin, centre, coming, compared, computer, cracked, desk, dining, discoloured, exists, extend, extending, hayden, hey, information, joined, joins, move, piece, project, slightly, suggestions, table, timbers, time, type, warped, worse
    • Replies: 3
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    mcjimmyd
    12th February 2011, 05:20 PM Go to last post

  12. Furniture Restorer

    Started by thumb trimmer, 7th February 2011 10:21 PM
    appreciated, damage, doors, friend, front, furniture, grandmothers, hinge, ignoramous, late, mines, pulled, recently, recommend, restorer, run, ryde, sideboard, understand, won, xcuse
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,174
    moikel
    9th February 2011, 03:54 PM Go to last post

  13. lentil question

    Started by sawtooth, 3rd January 2011 11:41 AM
    2.5, 3.5, eighty, guidance, hard, holding, house, install, job, lentil, links, material, question, rough, sawn, size, timbers, wall, wood, yeeaaahhhh;
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,750
    ian
    3rd February 2011, 09:30 PM Go to last post

  14. authenticity ... milk paint

    Started by fletty, 18th September 2010 08:43 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    1920s, 1930, austalia, australian, authentic, authenticity, catches, circa, cupboard, dresser, enamels, fletty, furniture, kitchen, layout, linseed, milk, modern, nice, oak, oil, original, oxides, paint, painted, pieces, read, silky, straight, tidy
    • Replies: 29
    • Views: 6,784
    Woodwould
    30th January 2011, 05:38 PM Go to last post

  15. Beginner - advice on first project

    Started by adrock, 22nd January 2011 01:39 PM
    advance, advice, basically, beginner, cracks, disk, feel, finish, fix, gear, gotta, grit, idea, images, keen, love, net, oil, picked, processed/polished, project, resource, ros, sanding, semi-distressed, sheets, stretch, suggestions, table, velcro
    • Replies: 2
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    adrock
    23rd January 2011, 06:05 PM Go to last post

  16. Jarrah Dressing Table (Help Needed Please?)

    Started by Bullfrog, 13th January 2011 11:42 PM
    158665, 158666, 158667, age, appreciated, assistance, bullfrog, contact, dresser, dressing, firstly, floral, greatly, handle, information, jarrah, missing, needed, picture, plate, recognise, restoring, roll, table
    • Replies: 1
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    mcjimmyd
    23rd January 2011, 02:40 PM Go to last post

  17. History request -Kauri Pine Cupboard?

    Started by 8aGoat, 27th October 2010 05:56 PM
    27/5/39, advice, beeswax/orange, corner, cupboard, deep, era, factory, forward, guess, hand, history, illegiable, kauri, left, lustre, marking, nice, oil, pencil, pine, ply, plywood, request, rough, shelac, stye, suggestions, top, utilitarian
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,586
    mcjimmyd
    23rd January 2011, 02:13 PM Go to last post

  18. The Blue Mirror

    Started by Claw Hama, 17th January 2011 09:24 PM
    7mm, arch, bars, bit, blue, bottom, cruise, cut, dirt, french, glued, mirror, mixed, ordinary, paint, pessant, photos, piece, ply, pretty, removed, rough, shutters, smashed, time, top, wash, window, wood, wooden
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 1,829
    NCArcher
    20th January 2011, 08:56 AM Go to last post

  19. timber slab perth

    Started by pjsaurus, 7th January 2011 12:45 PM
    1800mm, 500mm, 60mm, 800mm, all2tsup2tsup2tsup, approx, bloody, cheers, dry, drying, gday, gum, hoping, level, now2tsup, perth, reckon, red, roll, roughly, sanded, slab, spell, thick, thickness-er, timber, wide, word
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,391
    gooma
    8th January 2011, 04:15 PM Go to last post

  20. Smile Suggestions for removing sticky varnish

    Started by katz4, 3rd January 2011 12:20 PM
    australia, based, beautiful, build, cairns, carver, cleaning, dining, dresser, fluid, grateful, humidity, makes, moved, recommended, remove, removing, result, silicone, solid, solved, solvent, sticks, sticky, suggestions, suite, unsightly, varnish, wood, worse
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 4,146
    KevM
    3rd January 2011, 12:32 PM Go to last post

  21. Barley Leaf Table...

    Started by tenman, 12th December 2010 08:42 AM
    barley, bits, bothered, brand, character, cos, eaten, feature, finish, gonna, hardware, history, holes, leaf, leave, nip, oil, photo, polish, recommendations, sat, store, table, tempted, thick, tomorrow, wife, woodworm, word, worm
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,784
    tenman
    24th December 2010, 11:23 PM Go to last post

  22. Filing Cabinet, Antique? what kind of wood?

    Started by vegemitegirl, 28th November 2010 07:40 PM
    antique, attempt, bloody, busting, cabinet, confident, fee, filing, filled, happy, heavy, hehe, hell, holes, hope, ideas, identify, inside, kind, melbourne, omg, pay, phone, photo, pine, quality, re-varnishing, screw, websites, wood
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,305
    mcjimmyd
    16th December 2010, 11:01 PM Go to last post

  23. Exclamation Urgent advice needed!!!

    Started by voodoo92, 12th December 2010 07:33 PM
    advice, appreciated, arranged, aware, buy, cappable, cheers, ear, family, form, greatly, horse, horses, issue, love, memory, missing, mother, needed, pictures, restoring, rocking, severly, skilled, sourced, supplied, urgent, valuable, worn, yeah
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,711
    mcjimmyd
    16th December 2010, 10:39 PM Go to last post

  24. 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: 1,327
    mark david
    10th December 2010, 02:23 PM Go to last post

  25. Age Request -Kauri Pine Dresser

    Started by 8aGoat, 27th October 2010 06:02 PM
    advance, age, bar, boards, brand, coated, draw, drawer, dresser, finish, history, kauri, layers, lining, paint, paper, pine, repairs, request, simpsons, sliders, soild, sticker, suggestions, tradies, waste, www.tradiesbar.com.au
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,956
    mcjimmyd
    1st December 2010, 06:20 PM Go to last post

  26. bad, bad resto

    Started by Clinton1, 30th July 2010 11:17 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    $50, antique, bad, brass, cabinet, cabriole, colour, cost, coverings, customer, decided, door, fabric, fitting, highly, legs, paid, piece, pierced, piercings, professional, refitted, repairs, resto, restoring, service, stripped, structural, stuffed, worth
    • Replies: 29
    • Views: 5,283
    robbo266317
    29th November 2010, 07:59 PM Go to last post

  27. stripping back to original paint?

    Started by phreak97, 17th September 2010 07:32 PM
    1940s, answer, arcade, coat, crap, damaging, definately, edge, elbowp, flakes, hey, ideas, layers, machine, mid, original, paint, painted, plaster, playfield, powdery, read, restoring, scraper, scrapes, strip, stripping, top, types, uncovered
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,794
    phreak97
    26th November 2010, 06:29 PM Go to last post

  28. Question Restoring interior timber panelling

    Started by LisaF, 3rd October 2010 09:42 AM
    1940s, absolute, cheers, condition, damage, dark, dry, fabulous, faded, googling, guidance, house, idea, interior, linseed, lisa, metho, mixture, moved, novice, oil, original, panelling, restoring, suggestions, timber, type, vinegar, west-facing, wiped
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,354
    alwyn
    26th October 2010, 09:33 PM Go to last post

  29. Question getting in to those curved ,tricky places.

    Started by hawburn, 9th September 2010 11:11 AM
    adverse, attraction, barley, business, curved, dining, dremel, easier, hard, labourious, love, meantime, oak, ornate, owner, people, piling, places, professionals, sand, sandpaper, secret, setting, silky, stay, surely, tools, tricky, type
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 2,310
    munruben
    25th October 2010, 08:35 AM Go to last post

  30. Valve Radio Restoration: AWA Radiolette

    Started by Castaway, 11th September 2010 07:22 PM
    3 Pages •
    1 2 3
    10-15, awa, bits, cabinet, colour, compared, draws, easy, exacly, finished, future, glue, hide, job, keeping, missing, pic, pics, poly, radio, radiolette, replace, restoration, restorations, shellac, stain, valve, veener, veneer, water
    • Replies: 36
    • Views: 8,457
    Castaway
    12th October 2010, 10:03 PM Go to last post

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