Traditional antique furniture restorer Simon Gilboy demonstrates how to restore an oak fire surround with a limed oak finish. This is a simple technique that can easily be applied to transform any piece of wooden furniture such as a table or kitchen cupboard doors. In this instance Simon is restoring a solid oak fireplace surround.
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Stripping the old finish
04:34 How to use a cabinet scraper to remove the old finish
06:11 How to use steel wool to clean the old finish off
10:40 The importance of stripping three times
11:20 Preparation - Sanding the oak
13:20 Explaining why two part wood bleach is not being applied
15:20 Demonstrating the limed oak finish on a veneered oak panel
16:45 Using a wire brush to open up the grain
18:07 how to protect the oak cross grain from being scratched
19:00 Explaining why water was not used to raise the grain
19:50 Sanding out any unwanted wire brush marks
21:00 How to make your own sanding block
21:50 Vacuuming the dust out of the grain
22:35 Sealing the surface with a weak shellac mix and methylated spirits
24:43 Demonstrating how to prepare the french polish fad for sealing
26:10 Applying the fad to the bare oak surface
27:20 The liming process
28:15 How to use plaster of Paris as a grain filler
29:07 Mixing the plaster of Paris
29:59 Applying the plaster of Paris to the oak using hessian
36:35 What happens when your hessian goes hard
40:16 How to clean excess plaster in the mouldings
40:35 Making a quirking stick
42:30 Using the quirking stick to remove dried plaster of Paris
44:28 Revealing the unfinished limed oak
45:35 Explaining the finish that seals in the limed oak
46:20 Gently smooth sanding the limed oak surface to even up the limed oak treatment
48:27 Vacuuming off the plaster dust
49:00 Applying Gilboys pure gold wax polish to seal the wood and create the matt finish
51:45 Explaining how to use soft wire wool to dull the finish
53:15 The finished limed oak fire surround
54:30 Simon attempts and fails to promote Gilboys Youtube channel 😂 (out takes)
Materials used in this video to create this finish:
- An apron
- Paint stripper
- An old trimmed paintbrush
- Rubber Gloves
- Protective eyewear
- Dust mask
- An old paint roller tray
- A cabinet scraper or a decorators filler knife
- A wire brush
- A sanding block (homemade out of an off-cut of wood with a piece of carpet)
- 120, 240 and or 320 grit sandpaper
- Hessian sack or cloth
- A very light seal coat of shellac (methylated spirit diluted french polish)
- Coarse wire wool - *be careful to cut using scissors and wear gloves
- A mixing bowl
- Plaster of Paris (you don't need much, I used about 200g)
- Quirking stick - You could us a whittled twig, get your penknife out.
- Gilboys pure gold beeswax polish (Available on our website: [ Ссылка ])
- Gilboys pure cotton buffing cloth for applying the wax and sealing the wood
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