Do you know how many processes it takes to repair an old piece of furniture successfully? How can the restorers of the wonderful hand back spring keep their old charm while making the old furniture look new? With regard to these, we would also like to start with the “six steps” of the restoration of old furniture.
- Dismantle
When you want to repair an old piece of furniture, the first thing to do is to carefully observe the structure of the furniture, marked the different parts of the serial number for later installation, in reverse order to the original furniture assembly. When disassembling furniture, we should pay attention to maintain the integrity of furniture, remember to destroy the furniture paint film and form new damage. Part of the ancient folk furniture production of the structure and techniques used in special, commonly known as “desperate work”, when disassembled, there may be damage to the component structure, so try to keep the original, do not dismantle.
- Cleaning
Cleaning the dust on old furniture, wipe with a damp cloth is a big taboo, because to see the part itself is currently blindly using wet cloth wipe will cause unforeseen damage. Therefore, high-power hair dryer blowing is the first choice to remove dust and soil accumulation. For cement slurry, asphalt, chemical paint and other modern waste attached to the components, physical means should be used to remove, such as fine knife scraping and polishing, as far as possible not to use chemical agents to remove. After deciding not to retain the original paint surface, use water washing, while flushing side with a special brush brush, deep scale, can be added a little alkali-modulation of alkali water. such as glue and mud needs hot water to be soaked to be cleaned. Washed old furniture needs to be dry for more than a week, otherwise after the water swells, it is difficult to restore the hoe after disassembly.
- Paint (except for old work items).
Generally with fine sandpaper gently polished, the harder parts of the use of knife scraping. Paint can not destroy the original carving part, such as table case furniture legs common “a musk” line feet, after a long period of natural weathering, very fragile, once worn off, unless the wire feet are modified different, otherwise it becomes permanent damage.
- Carpentry Renovation
For the old furniture defects part of the repair should be in line with the “old as old” principle, simply put, is to find the same color of the old material repair complete. Even if conditions do not allow, try to use wood texture similar, slightly lighter material instead. Components such as legs, armrests, horn teeth, etc., if there is a symmetrical other half in, must be copied as is. If it is also missing, it needs to be matched and supplemented according to the form style of the entire piece of furniture.
Before bonding need to pay attention to a point, in the planing glued surface, as far as possible to control the texture direction is consistent, in order to eliminate the obvious bonding gaps, if not, need to be re-made. The most difficult to repair is the carving part, the pattern is missing, need to use the same style of repair, and each period, each place artisan technique is not the same, even if the use of the same material, the eye can see the cracks, not to mention most of the damage to the carving site is due to the parts are too thin, once the local decay or collision, can only retain this residual beauty.
- Finely polished
The wooden texture and texture of the furniture is the most erotic and simple beauty. Grinding removes burrs from the wood surface to show a natural “packing” effect. The pulp refers to, after a long period of use of high-quality wood, the surface formed a layer of warm as jade bright light, the more used the brighter, the traces of this age, is called the pulp.
According to the restoration principle of the collection community, as far as possible to retain the original pulp and as soon as possible to form a new pulp effect, so it is best to burn wax on the surface of furniture, such as cypress and birch, after polishing wax, it will not be long before the appearance of “pack pulp”, finish is no worse than hardwood furniture.
- Paint
Paintwork is not simply painting, but as far as possible to retain the original paint, most of the water wood-colored ancient folk furniture wax can be, which is unique in the restoration process of ancient folk furniture. There is also the need to re-paint, in general, after the first paint, to put on four to five paint, the last two colors, paint and repaint a total of eight to ten, good wood on the paint and the number of road can be appropriately reduced. Paint film also needs to be polished, the best effect is to use human hair repeatedly friction. The overall requirement of paint polishing is not to leave dead ends, not to leave oil, color uniform.
- Hot wax
Finally, the waxing process, hot wax is to make furniture to get longer use and protection.
Wax should use pure natural beeswax. First melt it, dot the surface of the furniture, and then apply temperature and wax, wait for wax on the surface of the furniture to form a wax film, in the use of wax starters, wax the furniture, different locations using different sample tools. After waxing is finished with wax cloth wax, so that the wax is uniform, in the use of wax brush wax polishing, polished furniture wood and pulp will use excellent polish and gloss.
