Repairing and Restoring Antique Furniture - John Rodd

For more than 40 years, professionals have turned to this classic handbook. Now it's expertly updated, expanded, and re-illustrated to make it the most current and authoritative guide. Every step in the repair and restoration processes receives painstaking and fully illustrated instructions, from dismantling and cleaning, to restoring each component of every type of furniture, to gluing, leveling, sandpapering, coloring, and polishing. For the most typical problems, you'll find practical and simple solutions. And for the more unusual dilemmas you get ingenious answers that will open a whole new way of thinking. Start-to-finish projects include a grandfather clock case, tables, desks, stands, and frames, as well as five difficult chairs. You'll be able to handle any repair or restoration challenge.Rodd, John is the author of 'Repairing and Restoring Antique Furniture - John Rodd' with ISBN 9780715303047 and ISBN 071530304X.