In progress...

At the moment I'm working on following chairs (details coming soon):


This one has a horrible finish but some nice carvings.

Let's see if we can save the chair seat...

This is a nice chair but was upholstered at least three times, the latest with some plastic coating.

The Thonet chair is nearly done. Details will come up soon...

These are some wonderful school chairs who unfortunately were repaired with nails, and they don't go out easily.

And the last acquisition.

Hope you're interested to see what becomes of all the chairs! So keep in touch.

Preparing fish glue

You can buy fish glue in pearls. You soak them in doble amount of water over night. The next day you can heat the mixture up in a water bath until the pearls are dissolved totally. It smells bad but the pearls have nearly no expiry date and the glue can be reheated whenever you want to use it again. But you have to apply it rapidly as it toughens and gets hard quickly. One of the advantages of fish glue is that you can undo the glued connection by applying warm water or heating the glue up, e.g. with an iron. Fish glue is used on old furniture and also on marquetry. On the Old-Woodworking-Tools webpage you'll find a really nice copy of an old newspaper showing some gluepots.

Links

Please, feel free to add a comment if you found a good webpage explaining woodworking techniques, about history of ancient furniture, restoration in general or whatever you find interesting to be shown on this site.