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Conservation/Restoration

  • Gap-Filling Adhesives for Wood Conservation
  • Natural Resin as a Coating in Conservation
  • Preserving for Posterity
  • Conservators and Refinishers: Finding Common Ground
  • Preserving and Restoring Furniture Coatings
  • Minimally Intrusive Upholstery at the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Tortoiseshell and Imitation Tortoiseshell (larger file)
  • Tortoiseshell and Imitation Tortoiseshell (smaller file)

Finishing

  • The Art of Japanning
  • Cooking Up the Right Finish is Paramount (Natural Oil-Resin Varnishes)
  • Shellac Finishing
  • Six Simple Rules for Perfect Finishing

Tools & Techniques

  • Practical Hints for Using Your Polissoir
  • Reading Tool Marks
  • Binding Clamps

Woodworking

  • Replicating Gragg
  • Royal Flooring in Appalachia

Miscellaneous

  • Deterioration and Response (Infographic)
  • What Color is the Sky on Their Home Planet?
  • Six Simple Rules for Perfect Finishing (Poster)

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Courses @ the Barn


  • - Historic Finishing Techniques
  • - Traditional Hammer Veneering
  • - Parquetry and Banding
  • - Introduction to Boullework
  • - Lost Wax Metal Casting
  • - Making Roubo's Tools

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