This title offers professional techniques to bring your furniture
back to life. It features clear step-by-step instructions for
everyday restoration tasks, such as polishing, staining, waxing,
graining, gilding, veneering, and marquetry and parquetry repairs.
It contains expert advice on essential tools, equipment and
materials, from saws, hammers, screwdrivers, clamps and chisels to
veneers, polishes, gilts, leather and locks. Projects include
removing a blister, raising a dent, disguising a scratch, cleaning
marble, reviving leather, laying veneer sheets, and restoring a
damaged edge. This book is an essential guide to basic and advanced
restoration techniques for antique surfaces. A section on tools and
equipment includes directories of all the materials you need for
successful home furniture repair. Projects include removing a
watermark, releathering a top, reviving a polished surface,
cleaning metal, French polishing, waxing a carved surface,
replacing bandings, and repairing rosewood pole screens. With its
detailed overview and professional guidance illustrated by more
than 400 photographs, this book will enable any budding restorer to
develop a true understanding of a range of furniture surfaces and
how to repair them.
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