Hi,
Many thanks Mark for the kind compliments. If you can do woodwork at all you have a much better start than I did is I hated the subject at school 50 years ago and was bottom of the school in woodwork when I left aged 15.
I would never use Danish Oil on a vintage cabinet but many do and of course it is the owners choice. I try to do restorations using traditional materials such as hide glue and shellac but unfortunately both require a bit of practice but with my various threads I believe the information is there. I had to learn everything the hard way but now I enjoy a basket case woody to restore. Please have a go and stick with it as you will succeed even if it seems to take forever to do your first cabinet restoration. this T311 cabinet was a real test of my staying power and it took a lot of work spanning four months in the middle of the worst winter ever recorded.
Here are a few more pictures and I hope it encourages you and others to have a go as making a start is the hard part.
I have given suppliers details in other threads also I buy veneer from eBay.
I hope the pictures are interesting; I enjoyed this restoration immensely and learned a great deal as I'm certainly no expert on cabinetwork or finishing.
The pictures show de-lamination of veneer; Removing the remains of a side panel; The new veneer which is badly curled; Routing the stringing grooves; The pair of new side panels; Brush applied shellac looking very rough; Close up after correct flatting of shellac and the front top curved section which I really dreaded doing but it actually proved much easier than expected.
Kind regards, Col.
Many thanks Mark for the kind compliments. If you can do woodwork at all you have a much better start than I did is I hated the subject at school 50 years ago and was bottom of the school in woodwork when I left aged 15.
I would never use Danish Oil on a vintage cabinet but many do and of course it is the owners choice. I try to do restorations using traditional materials such as hide glue and shellac but unfortunately both require a bit of practice but with my various threads I believe the information is there. I had to learn everything the hard way but now I enjoy a basket case woody to restore. Please have a go and stick with it as you will succeed even if it seems to take forever to do your first cabinet restoration. this T311 cabinet was a real test of my staying power and it took a lot of work spanning four months in the middle of the worst winter ever recorded.
Here are a few more pictures and I hope it encourages you and others to have a go as making a start is the hard part.
I have given suppliers details in other threads also I buy veneer from eBay.
I hope the pictures are interesting; I enjoyed this restoration immensely and learned a great deal as I'm certainly no expert on cabinetwork or finishing.
The pictures show de-lamination of veneer; Removing the remains of a side panel; The new veneer which is badly curled; Routing the stringing grooves; The pair of new side panels; Brush applied shellac looking very rough; Close up after correct flatting of shellac and the front top curved section which I really dreaded doing but it actually proved much easier than expected.
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
