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Richard Stowe
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I think everyone forgot clamps clamps and more clamps!!!!
Nobody has mentioned the very basics like a tape measure, pencils & a combination square set.
A hand saw & mitre block plus a tenon saw.
Cordless drill & impact driver plus accessories.
Tool box or make her own tool cupboard by upcycling an old wardrobe, adding shelves made from the bits another old wardrobe that's been stripped down.
A hand saw & mitre block plus a tenon saw.
Cordless drill & impact driver plus accessories.
Tool box or make her own tool cupboard by upcycling an old wardrobe, adding shelves made from the bits another old wardrobe that's been stripped down.
addjunkie
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You should marry this one, if she does decorating and gardening too!
DAPPH
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A small but heavy dense rubber hammer ,,, saves bruising wood when taking things apart . Some sort of safe to use true steam generator so you can steam a joint via a nozzle for 20 min or so to soften the glue to get it apart clean it up then re glue it .
If you are right handed ...A proper cabinetmaker steel tape measure you hook on the right , move the cartridge to the left , makes it so much easier to them use your right hand to hold pencils / marking knifes to mark surfaces plus the figure are the right way up .
Having an imperial one as well as a metric one ( different colour bodies ) is useful , they help stop you screwing up readings . As well as the imperial one is usually all that's needed for older imperial measured furniture.
If you are right handed ...A proper cabinetmaker steel tape measure you hook on the right , move the cartridge to the left , makes it so much easier to them use your right hand to hold pencils / marking knifes to mark surfaces plus the figure are the right way up .
Having an imperial one as well as a metric one ( different colour bodies ) is useful , they help stop you screwing up readings . As well as the imperial one is usually all that's needed for older imperial measured furniture.
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A number of plastic syringes and 40 mm long x 1 mm needles to inject super glue down 1,2 mm holes drilled into the joints , two or three above , below or from the side of most joints will see a good fix effected .
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Lead test kit
Subscription to Tom Johnson, AT Restoration and John's furniture repair
Proper hide glue
Large lockable cabinet to put the polyurethane glue into. And throw away the key.
Subscription to Tom Johnson, AT Restoration and John's furniture repair
Proper hide glue
Large lockable cabinet to put the polyurethane glue into. And throw away the key.
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A few of those hand operated clamps. I've got the Irwin "extreme" ones, as they were dead cheap on wicks' website for a while.
Set of halfrauds screwdrivers.
A big wadkin morticer
...lost concentration there
More sandpaper grades
I never use varnish. Just osmo. You could get her a trust fund and then, after 20 years, she will be able to afford a couple of 2.5ltr tins of that, rather than just the 750ml ones?
Set of halfrauds screwdrivers.
A big wadkin morticer
...lost concentration there
More sandpaper grades
I never use varnish. Just osmo. You could get her a trust fund and then, after 20 years, she will be able to afford a couple of 2.5ltr tins of that, rather than just the 750ml ones?
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Cut-proof gloves, for when all these sharp things develop minds of their own.
And they will....
And they will....
willie.macleod
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A call to your local college might be an idea, I have a friend who teaches an evening class in woodworking and as a project they make a basic stool. Something like that gets her into a well equipped workshop and hands on experience so she'll quickly work out what tools she actually needs and how to use them.
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+1 for the proper hide glue (with some means of heating it up like a leg waxing heater thing). If she's interested in furniture restoration, then the old furniture will probably have been glued with some form of protein glue, most likely hide glue. It can be unglued with heat and it would be a shame to glue it back together with something that can never be repaired again.
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Them foam brushes , I've always struggled with normal brushes . Operator error , I guess .
Saws . You can get proper old saws from car boots , ( it honestly doesn't take long to learn to sharpen them ! ) . I've not paid more than £2 for any of mine , back saws or panel saws . They'll all outlast me ! And most of them are older than me !
Block plane and a number 4 . Car boots again ,
Saws . You can get proper old saws from car boots , ( it honestly doesn't take long to learn to sharpen them ! ) . I've not paid more than £2 for any of mine , back saws or panel saws . They'll all outlast me ! And most of them are older than me !
Block plane and a number 4 . Car boots again ,
And a mortgage to buy them! Far cheaper to make your own wax from a few basic ingredients.
she is!
she loves plants! and by the sounds of it she's done most of the painting in her parent's house and her grandmother's house when she goes to visit her
I've told her she can have free run when I move, can do whatever she likes to the place :-)
I'll have to check, but I think she's more interested in cleaning up old furniture than a full strip/rebuild so a few suggestions might be overkill
she's in the middle of her masters and works weekends, not a lot of free time
I'll help her... but not sure if it's one of those things she wants to do/learn on her own as a bit of an adventure? I'll offer to help so it's there if she needs it :-)
In that case maybe a book on French Polishing & waxing plus some consumables.
I'm a bit of a brush snob & I like my Purdy brushes but for only £10 these brushes are excellent.
https://www.toolstation.com/prodec-trojan-synthetic-paintbrush-set/p28744
A sander has been mentioned already but some dust extraction is a good idea, as well as getting rid of the dust it vastly extends the life of the sandpaper. An old Henry will do for starting off.
A decent dust mask is a good idea too, I would suggest a 3m 7500 series as its comfortable to wear for long periods.
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Be careful with helping, only offer advice. Based on past experience, an ex of mine went right in the huff, when I was doing up a Kawasaki H1 triple. She thought shabby chicing some poor old chest of drawers was more important. In fact she thought just about everthing was more important than the H1.
