Furniture Refinishing Courses and Classes

Restoring a Lane Cedar Chest

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This chest had severe veneer damage, and

Rod shows us how to repair it using filler and grain painting techniques. 

This touch up technique is used daily in our studio, and is a "must know" if you're doing any type of refinishing or repair project.

Stripping a Dining Room Table

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Rod shows us step by step how to make

stripping a Dining Room Table an easy

half hour job!

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We'll show you how to strip the paint and refinish

this armoire to a beautiful distressed medium

French walnut finish.

Rocking Chair Refinishing & Seat Upholstery

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In This Episode, we refinish and upholster this old rocking chair. Extra focus is the upholstery aspect of

this job, which was done in real leather.

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In this Episode, Rod teaches us how to

disassemble this vintage Heywood Wakefield 

M592 buffet and repair all the loose seams where

the glue has failed.  

He then takes us through the finishing process

and stains the buffet champagne.

Lane Cedar Chest Lock Recall

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Lane Cedar Chest Locks Were Recalled.  Here's a video on how to replace yours.

Did you know that in 1996, Lane recalled 12 million cedar chests with lids that automatically latch shut

when closed? At least 6 children are known to have suffocated, so it's very important to change this lock. They are free from Lane.

Making a Mold & Casting New Ball Turnings For a Bench leg

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In this episode, Rodney shows us how he replaced

missing ball turnings on a small bench leg. He will

show you how to make a mold and a casting to

reproduce missing parts

You won't believe how he does this one! Everything

needed for this project was bought at the local craft store.

He'll show you step by step how you can do it too!

Refinishing a Mahogany Buffet

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In this episode, You'll learn how to bring a Mahogany

Buffet like this one back to life!

In this project, we'll show you how we replace worn and missing veneer on this buffet with easy to use

adhesive backed veneer. We'll also show you

some tricks on how to glue up loose veneer. Then

 we'll strip & refinish to give it wow factor!! 

Refinishing a Secretary Desk

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Pick up some pointers on how to refinish a Mahogany secretary desk by watching this

step by step episode.

Learn how to disassemble, strip & refinish a

secretary desk. We'll show you how to deal with

the interior compartments to make this job

surprisingly easy!

 Caning a Chair Seat

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Here's how we cane a chair seat using press

cane webbing.

It's not a very difficult job if you use the correct tools.

The hardest part of this caning process, is removing

the old cane and glue from the groove. But on

average this caning project should take you only

about one hour to complete from start to finish.
 

How to Repair a Broken Heywood Wakefield Chair Back...the right way

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Let me take you through the steps of how to repair

a broken chair the correct way. We won't be using

and screws or nails, so you can put them away :-)