Restoring Antique Furniture: A Complete Guide (Dover Crafts: Woodworking)

This book can give you some great tips and advice. It’s not a comprehensive how-to manual though. A little more research or some previous experience, coupled with the info in these pages can really help a person work through the art of restoration.

I thought this book provided very good introduction to antique furniture repair techniques. Many scenarios of distressed furniture are provided. However, some of the repair methods presented in the book are very challenging and would a take very skillfull craftsman to implement. I think this book would be an excellent source for identifying the type of repair that is needed but if you are a novice much, much more follow up research and practice would be required before you'd be able to make some of the more difficult repairs.This book would be an really good reference source if you have an antique piece and you would like to have it professionally repaired. It would give you a very good idea what would go into (and should go into) a professional repair job on antique furniture.

When they say antiques, they mean antiques. Most of the furniture in this book is country style antiques and I am not so interested in that type of furniture restoration. I have used the books to assist in the restoration of a couple of ladder back chairs.

Another good book or furniture repair.

Lots of good techniques and skill building info.

Helps a lot with my hobby

While this book shows what can be done with antiques, it has no detail, so one needs to be already experienced - then one does not need this book- or enjoy looking at what other people does, cause that's as far as it goes.

This is a great book for furniture restoration. Even had methods in it that I had never tried. Very informative and a great addition to any library on furniture refinishing and restoration!

Its OK but I really needed a simpler guide. It would be helpful if I could have 'dipped' into the book a little before purchase.