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restoration
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The Bench That Pays for Itself: One Restorer's Twenty-Year Investment
A custom-built oak bench in a Vermont workshop took six months to build and has lasted twenty-three years. The owner has worked out, roughly, how much it has earned per square inch.
Workshop Visits
A Silversmith Restorer in Sheffield Attercliffe
Oonagh Tindall works on Victorian and Edwardian silver from a small workshop in a former cutlery factory. On a Friday in May she repairs a damaged Walker and Hall tea service.
Tools
The Right Wax for the Right Wood: Ten Finishes Tested Over Eighteen Months
A restorer in upstate New York spent a year and a half applying ten different waxes to offcuts of walnut, oak, and mahogany. The results were not what the catalogues promised.
Workshop Visits
An Afternoon with a Chair Caner in Burlington, Vermont
Margery Pell has been weaving rush and cane onto old chairs for thirty-one years. On a wet Thursday in May, she works on a Shaker side chair from 1842 and explains why she charges by the hole.