Wood and furniture renovation resources
On this page we try to gather most valuable resources (articles, tutorials, books, etc) related to wood and wooden furniture renovation.
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| Name | Size and format | Comment |
| Wood renovation and restoration | ||
| Painted Wood - History and Conservation - part 1 | 3.7 MB / PDF | Part 1. The Getty Conservation Institute. |
| Painted Wood - History and Conservation - part 2 | 3.4 MB / PDF | Part 2 - Historical Perspectives. The Getty Conservation Institute. |
| Methods of Conserving Archaelogical Material from Underwater Sites | 2.9 MB / PDF | Contains section about waterlogged wood conservation. (C) Donny L. Hamilton |
| Resource Book for Furniture Renovation, Refinishing and Reupholstering | 2.5 MB / PDF | Low quality digitalization of 1982 guide |
| Wood finishing |
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| Oils and varnishes (1886) | 32 MB / PDF | by James Cameron |
| Violin varnish and how to make it (1911) | 3.6 MB / PDF | By Georges Foucher |
| The varnishes of Italian violin-makers (1904) | 5.8 MB / PDF | The varnishes of the Italian violin-makers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their influence on tone. By George Fry |
| The manufacture of varnishes (1899) | 22 MB / PDF | The manufacture of varnishes : oil crushing, refining and boiling and kindred industries : describing the manufacture and chemical and physical properties of spirit varnishes and oil varnishes, raw materials, resins, solvents and colouring principles, drying oils, their extraction, properties and applications, oil refining and boiling, the manufacture, employment and testing of various varnishes. By John Geddes, Achille Livache. |
| The practival polish & varnish maker (1892) | 21 MB / PDF | The practical polish & varnish maker : a treatise containing 750 practical receipts and formulae for the manufacture of polishes, lacquers, varnishes, and japans, of all kinds, for workers in wood and metal and directions for using. By H.C Standage. |
| Wood identification | ||
| Guide to the Identification of Tropical Woods Controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora | 9.4 MB / PDF | |
| The Identification of Furniture Woods | 13 MB / PDF | The Identification of Furniture Woods - U.S Department of Agriculture - 1925. By Arthur Coehler. |
| Historic woodworking books | ||
| The Cabinet Maker's Guide - 1837 | 8.9 MB / PDF | The cabinet maker's guide, or, Rules and instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering, and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoiseshell, & metal : with observations on their management and application : including an appendix, containing several valuable tables by Siddons, George A - 1837 |