Hi I'm a new member to this community. I have a deep passion for weathered old wood, I love the color and deep texture that you can't get with new lumber. I recently scored 500+ board feet of sun beatin cedar fence boards that had weathered quite nicely. I washed them with a bleach mixture and...

Hello there! I am new to the forum and I appreciate any words of advice you can pass along. I am liming a tabletop that I have stained ebony. I used a brass brush to open up the grain and sprayed a thin coat of shellac on it after the stain had dried. Then I rubbed on the liming wax. When I...

Hello All, First time poster here, so much great content and knowledge on the site! Wife and I recently purchased a home built in the early 1940s in N. Utah. The home has undergone a few different modifications and way too many layers of paint. We are in the process of attempting to restore the...

I'm refinishing an old dresser of unknown origin (it dates back to the 40s or 50s i think) and when i got the paint off i noticed a lot of ghosted spots where something might have been glued to the original piece, or perhaps the wood had been recycled from another purpose. Here's a photo...