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Tools
A French Polisher's Bench: What's on It and Why
In a basement workshop in Edinburgh, a polisher with forty-one years at the work keeps a bench whose contents have changed less than three times in her career.
Restorations
An 1880 Walnut Secretary Desk, Restored Over Fourteen Months
A black-walnut Wooton-style desk, bought at a Hudson Valley estate sale in 2024, came back to its hinges and its slant-front lid in March of this year. A record of the work.