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18th century English country oak gate-leg table.
Charlie restored this table for Behruz, where it sits in their entrance foyer to the centre of a stunning rug.
Charlie’s worked with Amir, Omid and all their wonderful staff for some time now, until he departs for Thailand later this month.
This is Charlie’s ‘thank you’ to the boys
Thanks to Jack for showing him.
I look forward to continuing to teach Charlie restoration skills…
Lacquers can rarely be saved and usually too dark to bother trying.
In these cases we hand strip the lacquer, clean surface, mix a base stain,
this time using “bitumen” a little trick I thought I’d share.
Re-french polish, then cut back and wax finish to soften shine.
Afters then before’s of a now attractive 19th century English mahogany lowboy/side table.
Having a cross-banded top with ebonised stringing inlay.
Was very sun damaged and patchy on arrival, as you can see in last photos.
This was a restoration job for customers.
We just restored this late 19th Australian Blackwood folding library chair for a customer.
The frame and seat were broken.
Re-glued, wax filled damage lines, clean back surfaces, colour where necessary.
Re french polish overall, cut back and wax finish.
Waxed up so well.
Restoration of a 20th century retro rosewood sideboard.
Five after photos, then three before.
We couldn’t work out exactly what had been applied to the lacquered finish to make such a patchy mess.
Heavily cleaned back, removing all damages and paint spots.
Re french polish, colour damage during process, cut back and wax finish.
Very happy customer!
Restoration of an unusual 19th century French Amboyna Burl cylinder-top writing desk
Before and after photos.
We had great pleasure in restoring this piece.
Eddies perfect kingwood cross-banding, amboyna veneer and satinwood stringing inlay patching.
My colouring and french polishing, Jack cut back and waxing.
Very happy customers!
20th century oak sideboard
Fresh out of restoration from an unattractive chocolate colour with tiny steel handles to this.
We rarely strip, but in this case nothing to save, so hand strip, no sanding, mix a bitumen based stain, re polish, cut back and built a wax finish.
A recent private restoration job.
Beautiful last quarter 19th century French oak rotating desk chairThe last photo shows before restoration.
Several patches and re carving, re gluing, removed the later varnished dark surface to reveal a very red raw oak.
Refused to sand or bleach, made up a green base stain that removed much of the red, a very old trick.
Re french polished, coloured in repairs, cut back and wax finished.
Craig Howell, upholsterer, removed the original pressed leather seat and reupholstered the chair to finish this wonderful job.
Eddie, cabinet maker, completed the repairs and carving. Also the ball bearings lubricated and running well.
Taking apart, removing old glues, packing the interior for stability, re-glueing and holding glues together.
Then watercoloring the damages out.
Wonderful outcome.
I called into a customers last night with a few colours and waxes and cleaned up their table.
We just finished restoring this fantastic set of 19th century English Country Regency dining chairs.
A customer purchased them not realising that many users ago, someone had drilled holes through every leg and seat rail, tying a coat hanger style metal brace.
Once removed, not easily, they were a complete mess!
Eddie took each chair apart and rebuilt them. We cleaned back, filled the holes, disguised the repairs and refinished them.
Cut back and waxed today and ready to deliver.
I thought I’d share the process with you.
Note: still to be reupholstered.
We recently restored this beautiful first half 20th century American mahogany extension dining table for some of my favourite customers.
It would have been easy to strip, sand and re finish.
Would have cost substantially more and the dark red/brown mahogany colour would have returned.
The overall fade is what’s so attractive re this table.
The carriers delivers to our workshops. We cleaned back the surfaces, retaining the original finish (most important) Shane, very cleverly filled the deep gouge/scratch perfectly level, no damage to surrounding surface! Exceptional!
Jack re french polished the table, during the processes, I coloured out the repair.
Once completed, the table was cut back and wax finished, to soften the shine.
Note: retaining the original fade and overall markings is most important.
Very happy customers and looks magnificent back in place, alongside the matching English Regency mahogany sideboard, we restored at the same time.
I’ll probably post that tomorrow….
Team work here, something we all enjoy…
Thanks Jack & Shane