We restored this pair of bentwoods for a customer recently.
Quite a transformation.
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Thought I’d show you how easy it is to re buff existing wax finishes.
I find flannelette the best for a good easy shine. Cut all seams from material.
Use your palm on a flat surface, obviously fingers into corners or threads, such as this.
Before and after photos.
Also the last wine thread I had, turned into a standard lamp.
Restoration of a late Georgian mahogany, beautifully silk upholstered arm chair
We recently restored this late Georgian mahogany, beautifully silk upholstered arm chair for a customer.
He’s owned it for years. His cheeky new puppy thought the moulded hand rest was tasty!
Great work patching and re carving thanks Eddie. I did the colouring, not easy with the silk.
David polished, cut back and re wax finished.
Great teamwork here as always, and one very happy customer!
Restoring/altering the look of an already reproduction card table.
Charlie & Jack did all the preparation months ago.
Stripped the thick sticky red/brown lacquer, removed the same applied felt and prepared for (Graeme Davidson, Woodshed Antiques) to re felt.
Recent restoration of a customers paint damaged cherrywood coffee table.
Sadly his son spray painted an object on the top, not realising the consequences to the finish or his bank account!
Table restored, including all chipped paint.
So happy customers.
RESTORATION: Late 17th Century Charles II carved walnut chair.
Originally had a matching caned seat.
Had been upholstered years ago,
with borer eaten front seat rail.
Fantastic repairs by Eddie, polishing by Jack and colouring by me.
Craig Howell, upholsterer dropped the chair back today.
Looking great!!
Merrin will be a happy vegemite
Charlie’s second restoration job.
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
Charlie Allpress polishes his first piece
Thanks to Jack for showing him.
I look forward to continuing to teach Charlie restoration skills…
RESTORATION of an early 20th century English oak Jacobean revival writing bureau.
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.
RESTORATION of attractive 19th century English mahogany lowboy/side table
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.
RESTORATION: Late 19th Australian Blackwood folding library chair
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 – Not for sale
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 – Not for sale
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!
RESTORATION – Not for sale
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.
RESTORATION – Not for sale
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.
Restoration of German Terrestrial Globe
Taking apart, removing old glues, packing the interior for stability, re-glueing and holding glues together.
Then watercoloring the damages out.
Wonderful outcome.