Chairs who likes to do them?

Here are some chairs that I have just finished

Look at this fake red colour dreadful

                                                          Stripped and sanded

                                                     Stained and hand French polished

As you can see that with some very hard work, and attention to detail these old chairs have been completely transformed.

I had to treat them both for woodworm, as there were signs of wormholes however, apparently they had been treated prior to my works.

If you have chairs like this, maybe this will give you some idea as to what you could do with them.

I hope this will be of help to you?

How not to French polish a Dining table

This is how not to French polish a Dining table.

This table was left finished in this condition by a so-called French polisher.

I was called by a potential customer to look at their Dining table, as they had been very disappointed with the French polisher that had carried out the works on their table.

I think he could have no idea how to French polish and his work is an insult to the good French polishers out there.

As you can see from the photo below, showing a very streaky surface with oil left on the surface together with scratches need I go on.

I was very surprised to see such a poor standard of workmanship, the guy never even took the table apart to gain full access to the top surface.

In this picture below you can see that I have half-stripped part of the surface for the clients to view and make a decision as to what lays beneath the old surface.

The remaining photos are after I have completely stripped and re hand French polished the surface properly. 

Looks much better now!

Looks like glass now!

This is how a Dining table should be French polished.

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