blasted sand!

Jr. suiting up to do the deed. I don't know what temp/humidity was but it was way too hot to

put this stuff on for me.  :( 

We needed a ceramic pot blasted. I had tried 60 grit paper, elbow grease--to no avail.

cabinet repair at Circa

on old plane that Ray is refurbishing.

Some of the WizardKing's handiwork.

Prior to color work.

I cleaned this today. Murphy's Oil. Part of four piece set. We were debating whether or not this was faux bois or real burl. It is real. Telling ya.

Circa is on Park Hill near 8th Ave. Furniture restoration shop. Right across the street from Old Neighborhood Grill on FW's Southside. 817.924.4822

I'm working at Circa on Park Hill these day. Love my job.

This is what we start with.

Atticus, the Wizard King, Circa's woodworker.

This is what the shop is full of. And we get to work on it. :0 If it looks gorgeous then that is because it IS gorgeous.

Oak chair repair&touch-up

Near black stain about 3" from back of chair. I had scrubbed on stain to get it this clean. Stain was "in" the wood.

I ended up "wood-graining" the stain to remove. I recommended to my customer that we NOT strip the piece because it's patina looked wonderful. We just wanted to hide major problems.

Lighter stain in seat.

Post repair of stain.

Chip out of right side.

Chip filled with epoxy and then re-colored and lacquered. Not practicable to close joint.

before

after

before

after

Touch-up on furniture

Sofa-before repairs.

 My customer has had teen boys in the house. I did several repairs on different pieces. This sofa is representative of the work.

I used colored powders and spray touch-up lacquer to fix the blemishes.

Same section of same sofa post repair. Burn-in sticks not needed. Just color and spray of lacquer (with appropriate masking of leather.

Other section of same sofa--pre-repair

Above section with repair.

Re-glueing/ touch-up of oak tandem folding chair.

This is the tandem folding chair after I had cleaned it with Murphy's Oil Soap and re-installed the slats and re-glued piece together. No attempt to re-finish here thereby leaving patina intact.

Slats from quarter-sawn oak from an old well-worn folding chair. The medullary rays, the lighter sections that break up the grain are terrific here.