25-11-2013, 07:26 PM
Hi,
Over the years I've done plenty of cabinetry making new from scratch but I've always been hopeless at restoration where small damaged areas were affected.
It's always very difficult to hide a repair at least it is for the average DIY'er who tends to make the damage much worse. I once read that pouring Methylated Spirit onto a white water mark and setting fire to the meths would remove the mark? I tried this on a vintage radio cabinet and yes it worked a treat; it got rid of the mark together with the finish so now I don't bother trying to repair finding it much quicker and easier starting from scratch by removing the original finish. I've never bleached any timber either and would imagine bleaching would have to be done on the entire panel otherwise the bleached area would take a great deal of colour matching which again I'm useless at because I'm colour blind.
Good luck Jeffrey.
Kind regards, Col.
Over the years I've done plenty of cabinetry making new from scratch but I've always been hopeless at restoration where small damaged areas were affected.
It's always very difficult to hide a repair at least it is for the average DIY'er who tends to make the damage much worse. I once read that pouring Methylated Spirit onto a white water mark and setting fire to the meths would remove the mark? I tried this on a vintage radio cabinet and yes it worked a treat; it got rid of the mark together with the finish so now I don't bother trying to repair finding it much quicker and easier starting from scratch by removing the original finish. I've never bleached any timber either and would imagine bleaching would have to be done on the entire panel otherwise the bleached area would take a great deal of colour matching which again I'm useless at because I'm colour blind.
Good luck Jeffrey.
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
