I've just finished the long restoration of a Victorian carpenters chest, and after much experimentation managed to successfully disguise the new wood as old with a combination of linseed oil and a medium-dark dye mixed together.
However, the chest is really unprotected in it's current state, and could do with a bit of a shine. I want to use something becoming of the box, not varnish or similar, but rather something like a clear wax. Can anyone recommend such a product that is readily available?
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When I bought it, it had been shabbied up with nasty blue & white paint over the original tar paint, a plinth of pine skirting had been brutally screwed to it, the base was rotten, the lock rebate had mostly fallen to bits, and there was damage to the interior.
What I've done to the chest:
Stripped 100+ years of crap from the carcass of the chest
Fixed damage to the lid
New lock fitted
New plinth
New brass escutcheon
Cleaned up, kurusted and lacquered the original iron handles
Fitted new base from aged pine I conveniently found in my attic
Fixed split interior section
Stained and oiled it
Really pleased with it, and it will serve my newly born daughter well as a toy box.
However, the chest is really unprotected in it's current state, and could do with a bit of a shine. I want to use something becoming of the box, not varnish or similar, but rather something like a clear wax. Can anyone recommend such a product that is readily available?
Pic for ref:
When I bought it, it had been shabbied up with nasty blue & white paint over the original tar paint, a plinth of pine skirting had been brutally screwed to it, the base was rotten, the lock rebate had mostly fallen to bits, and there was damage to the interior.
What I've done to the chest:
Stripped 100+ years of crap from the carcass of the chest
Fixed damage to the lid
New lock fitted
New plinth
New brass escutcheon
Cleaned up, kurusted and lacquered the original iron handles
Fitted new base from aged pine I conveniently found in my attic
Fixed split interior section
Stained and oiled it
Really pleased with it, and it will serve my newly born daughter well as a toy box.
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