MacGruer Restorations

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...

Continue reading...

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 ...

Continue reading...

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 "...
Continue reading...