Update, and read my articles in Berkshire Homestyle

April 27, 2011
Hello blog readers,

After I started this blog, writing again after not doing so for some years, I started to write again for a local regional lifestyle magazine. It's called Berkshire Homestyle and can be viewed online each month and it is archived.

My time has been spent on that and not his blog.

Go here: http://berkshirehomestyle.com/

Look in the November, January, March and May issues.

Let me know what you think.
 

A little too clean!

September 26, 2010

The following is from a posting on a professional finishing website conversation. Dick, a finisher, took in a job to “clean up” or refinish a piece of furniture. The customer was then unhappy with the cleaner look:

>>" Dear Groop:  I now have it back in my shop to try to make it look old ------ help. Dick"

[Dick may have been heavy handed in his processes, though he said he wasn't, or the piece may have just had a lot of age related marks and coloring that were lost in a normal refinishi...


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Sticky business

August 20, 2010

Glues.

Holding things together. Making it possible to be adventurous in design, and to assemble objects in ways that would otherwise be impossible.

Wheat, fish, hide, mucilage, cyano-acrylate, epoxy, resorcinol, contact cement, hot melt, acrylics, urethanes, one part, two part, multipart, casein, polyvinyl acetate, and on and on..... For a bit more fun you can check the Wiki entry for glue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glue

While it is possible to design and build a piece of furniture without ...


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Oldest profession on the planet!

August 12, 2010
Hello, and welcome to my new site,

I will be posting blog entries discussing topics regarding my work, Antique Restoration, and life subjects that relate to the work or the concepts explored. You can expect me to wander, ramble, and leave some topics open-ended or unresolved.

Your comments, professionally inspired or otherwise, are always welcome. Please feel free to ask a question that might start a blog discussion, or just bring up a matter that interests you.

Restoration vies for the title "...
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