Woodworker here for the last 8 years making new furniture but fixing a few things requiring closing up cracks, patching low places from knots and tearout. Your lead of products to accomplish a better end really helps me in walking down a new path in working wood. My family landed in Newbury Mass in 1635 and for some reason I go for effects common to your direction. Thanks for your schooling, Thomas. Some clients really like to work with a person who has an interest that covers just what they need and that is one of the joys of working.
As a fellow craftsman I'd like to say what a great job that was. The main thing with antiques is to to restore, not remake or renew. That is exactly what you have done. Wonderful work here.
You're welcome! Unfortunately it won't do any good, but it makes us feel better to do something! Last year, and every year more plastic is produced than ever before.
A very nice way of life. A very calm man carrying out his craft so professionally. These type of men are hard come by and there is no one taking up this craft. May his hands continue to do this great work for years to come
I see in you a kindred spirit. Your careful approach which inflicts as little damage as possible and when going back you take a common sense path of not doing too much but just enough. Good job. I've been down that same path myself a few times. Thanks for the video.
I am learning so much from you! I have a few pieces I've inherited from my grandmother that were antiques when I was a child, so that makes them really old! Some need work. At first I thought they just needed a little, but from watching your careful and detailed approach, I think I've changed my mind on that. They likely need much more than I can do myself so I think you've saved me from creating more problems than I started with! I love watching you transform a poor, old, at times mistreated piece of furniture into the beautiful object it was intended to be when made. And thank you for doing videos. And I appreciate that you include all the steps and details about what you're doing. And thanks so much for the opening and closing scenes of the animals and nature around your shop. It's a real treat!.
This is great! I bought an old Thomasville table that someone had painted over. After stripping the paint, I understood why. Someone had put a potted plant on the table top and there was a large, black, water ring on the top surrounded by nasty discoloration. I bought some oxalic from a local neighborhood hardware store and followed your directions from previous videos. The top looks like brand new!
I live in Thomasville N.C . This was once the chair city and where good quality and pride was taken in the work. Now days everything is shipped from china to the TFI warehouse and put into boxes that say made in USA. Don't be fooled !!!! It is not made in the USA!!! Only the box it is in is made here. Gotta love loopholes huh..Thank you Thomas for the great content. I always learn something new from your videos.
When ever I've taken on refinishing a newer piece, it never ceases to amaze me how much better my refinishing job is always so much better then the piece ever had to begin with. So, not only does the overall quality of the furniture pieces stink, but the finish done on these pieces, stink as well. There is a trend right now where pieces are painted and then stressed out again to make it look like the piece evolved into what they're trying to accomplish. Some of those pieces turn out beautiful, but I have to say - when they put that finish on top of a antique piece it just makes me cringe. Those pieces should have gotten the advantage of restoring to their original finish, not changed by a paint finish that will hide the original beauty of the piece. I want to see that beautiful wood and the beautiful work that went into making those antique pieces. Paint the newer pieces instead.
@Rick1979 , that is a pretty good way of looking at an antique piece being painted. My mother painted many pieces of furniture at our house. I've got my old childhood . dresser sitting in our storage shed. I managed to rescue it before my mother was going to give it to charity. I rescued a few other pieces at the same time. Of course they were painted. When we moved into our first and only house as a child, the dresser was being left in the basement and my mother paid $3 for it. I remember the original finish on it, and knowing what I know today, it wasn't in bad shape at all. I am pretty certain it was original to the house because that is the vintage it is. It is oak with three coats of oil based paint on top of it. I was going to strip the finish, but maybe I should just freshen the paint on it, and call it done. I've got too many pieces to rescue as it is that are family pieces, that DON'T have a paint finish on them. Sometimes you just have to pick your battles, and move on. Someone will get it back to the original finish again, hopefully. There is an even bigger shame that happened to the woodwork in homes and that was people were painting it. Some of that woodwork has actually been removed and replaced with newer, modern woodwork. My mother painted all the woodwork in our old house, but at least that wood was a mahogony wood. It was all dented from damage through the years. I am very happy my parents sold the house to someone else. Thank goodness! I don't know if you've noticed it, but I have been hearing people calling the original woodworks in homes "orange" or poop colored. The kids are bringing out the paint brushes and you just know there are going to be homes getting their woodwork and kitchen cabinets freshly painted again. Even original brick on homes is being painted. Oh Lord! I can't watch, lol!
@@johnsonrestoration . I have a table like this where I sanded through the veneer. 3 spots the size of a quarter. They wont take any stain. I've tried stain pens. What can i do to make them accept stain.
@@miketate8554 There are Minwax brand colored markers to use in matching color. Sometimes you dab it on at full strength and let it dry; or you may lighten the dab with a finger smear and let that dry being careful not to apply a top coat that wipes away the color.
as I have said before these are excellent how to reference materials, from an experienced practicing professional, who has helped me out, I have been asked to finish a guitar that has sat 40 years and covered in these exact marks that I need to treat before grain filling and sealing, thanks Tom.
Something about old tables that is so inviting, and calming, at the same time. Imagine all the elbows that have touched that top. Tom, nice work, as always.
You can tell by Mr. Johnson's attention to detail and labor intensive work, he takes pride in doing a professional job on this project. Beautiful results.
Tom, excellent video. I'm a fellow Mainer from Dover-Foxcroft and have been refinishing mainly oak for 50+ years and I continue to learn from your vast knowledge. Keep up the sharing. Thank you.
I was born in Dover-Foxcroft but my parents moved away when I was 18 months old (father in Air Force). I hope to visit someday, what is it like. The house my parents rented was in the square by the bridge but I don't think that it's still standing. I've seen old photos and looked @ the site on Google Earth and the house doesn't seem to be there anymore. I also refinish antique furniture as jobs come up.
Another great job. I imagine most customers have no idea how much of your time has to go into achieving such a wonderful result. My hat's off to you on your stand with plastic and the environment. I vividly remember when we were all told to move away from paper grocery bags (save a tree) and into plastic ones. We were told how easily they would be recycled and how environmentally correct the decision was. So sad. Thanks again for posting.
Thanks! The whole plastic thing is depressing. We've ruined the world! I don't care about humans - they get what they deserve - but the animals, they were just minding their own business.A couple of weeks ago they found a dead whale in the Mediterranean with 48 lbs of plastic in it's stomach
Yeah, I remember those days. I am an art restorer and conservator. Gave speeches at guilds, antique clubs, etc and begged all to quit using plastic Everywhere! And throw that horrible off-gassing expensive Tupperware junk away. I had to go quite on that last piece of advice, one of my customer's father invented Tupperware. All the Sterlington boxes people buy for storage, not good at all.
If i was the customer i would have been EXTREMELY pleased at the result & as a distant viewer quite envious of such a nice aged piece of furniture. A credit to your skills & thanks for showing us the amount of work put in to make it so...
Thanks! It took a lot of years to come around to that. When I started, everything got refinished! Back in the 70's. But it's so much more gratifying to save the old finish. There will always be situations where refinishing is necessary, but that's the exception now.
Awesome video from and old master. I'm 76 and learned a lot Tom. Love your shop, the old clamps, old fans,old tools still being used and the old patched jeans you're still wearing. You remind me of my brother. His name is Tom also and his shop looks similar to yours.
Looks great. I think the staining that's left only adds to the character of the table. Antiques hold many stories and you've added a beautiful chapter.
Color card at 16:00... very effective! I need to remember that, thank you! Very informative video BTW... I appreciate all the time and effort you put into this! Best, Matt
I came into this late, but I must say it shows you take pride in doing excellent exacting work. Bravo! That gate leg table will hopefully be handed down in the family and loved for 100 years more.
You did an amazing job on this beautiful table. So happy to see someone who really knows how to restore it the right way. I have a piece of vintage furniture in every room of my home, but budget demands I learn how to do something with them myself and I feel inadequate to the task! Thank you for the video.
Who needs an Easter egg when you can start the holiday weekend with a new Tom Johnson video? Another excellent and informative video. Happy Easter Tom.
Beautiful work fabulous job matching the finish, and a nice treat for Easter, Thank you Tom Johnson for sharing your secrets with your ardent followers.
I found your channel just the other day and I'm completely hooked, the subject appeals to me and it's very well filmed but you are a very engaging and likeable man and I think that's the most important part. Made me happy to hear you trying to minimise the use of plastic and re-use any plastic you do use, fast becoming one of my heroes Thomas.
Hi Tom. I just found your channel recently and I love it. I really like your approach to furniture restoration. It's interesting that you don't go right for a chemical stripper that's fairly common from what I've seen on youtube. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that it's interesting how you handle your projects. Thanks for making these videos.
Thanks so much for describing how you restore antiques to their former beauty as well as the choices you made and the reasons for making those choices. I learn so much from each video. I'm so excited to try my hand at restoration!
I'm a big fan of yours - have watched all your videos and appreciate your process and philosophy. What struck me most about this particular video was that more time was taken in showing the completed project and that it was shown from various points of view. As ever, a great result.
That color match is spot on! Love your craftsmanship and attention to detail while staying true to the character and age of the piece. By the way, how many clamps does your shop have? Haha
I watched this while taking copious notes! I even ordered the oxalic acid while watching this! I have a beautiful old pine gate leg table. Not an antique but a sweet old piece with cigarette burns and staining. You have inspired me to try my hand at refinishing that top.
Thanks so much for sharing your considerable experience. Knowing how much time you have in your projects is very interesting and I also appreciate it when you share the names of the products you use in repair, restoration and refinishing. You've also raised clamping techniques to an art form! Thanks again.
Great video on furniture stain removal and retaining character of a weathered piece of furniture. This helped me with several of my furniture repair projects at my home. Thanks for sharing!
I really loved the look of the aged curly maple on the leaves. That is, by far, my favorite wood to work with. Like you, my hands are always sporting a bandage. Thanks for sharing!
Another great video from you! When you post a video, I am there! And I can say that even your lead-ins to your videos are so nice, nature, birds, pets and animals! I am a 72 year old DIYer that is already looking forward to your next video! Happy Easter, Rocky 😀😀😀
Thank you for the inspiration Tom! I have used oxalic acid today on a table that was stained with circles of some paint cans and the stains totally disappeared! Hats off to your knowledge and excellent tutorial with this and other videos where you show how you use oxalic acid. I am amazed at the results and my wife at first didn’t think it would work but thanks to you I am now the hero! Thanks for the awesome content and keep up the great work!
Thanks so much for telling us the time-commitment for these projects--it's great to know how much work TRULY goes into it. Beautiful work--thank you for sharing your experience with us.
I love that I'm not always thinking how I'd be doing things differently than you. People need to know that your skills make this stuff look easier than it is. Peace.
The TJ patience/wisdom applied with tung oil and beeswax in 12.5 hours. Another masterpiece video to bless the refinishing world. I have an old gate leg table downstairs that will be redeemed through this.
Whoever did your editing did an excellent job. Totally smooth insertion of each action with fluid voiceover. Rare on these youtube instructional video's.
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In my opinion, the best antique furniture restoration chanel on TH-cam .... good explanation of thoughts, techniques and tools. Thank you, Sir.
You're welcome! I appreciate it!
Woodworker here for the last 8 years making new furniture but fixing a few things requiring closing up cracks, patching low places from knots and tearout. Your lead of products to accomplish a better end really helps me in walking down a new path in working wood. My family landed in Newbury Mass in 1635 and for some reason I go for effects common to your direction. Thanks for
your schooling, Thomas. Some clients really like to work with a person who has an interest that covers just what they need and that is one of the joys of working.
You're welcome Vincent! Good luck in your venture! Stop by sometime if you're ever up this way
As a fellow craftsman I'd like to say what a great job that was. The main thing with antiques is to to restore, not remake or renew. That is exactly what you have done. Wonderful work here.
Thank you! I appreciate it
Genius as usual Mr Johnson very enjoyable and addictive
Thanks!
I enjoyed this from the beginning to the end. It's a real pleasure to watch a master at his craft. Thank you.
You're welcome!
I was really happy to hear you say you're trying to reduce the use of plastic. Thank you, Thomas😊
You're welcome! Unfortunately it won't do any good, but it makes us feel better to do something! Last year, and every year more plastic is produced than ever before.
It's been a LONG time since that table had so much love and attention lavished upon it. Another excellent job.
Thanks!
I'm obsessed with this channel! Thanks for sharing your knowledge :)
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
I learn about 10 new things everytime I watch one of these videos. And for some reason I always feel better about the world. This guy is a treasure.
Thanks!
A very nice way of life. A very calm man carrying out his craft so professionally. These type of men are hard come by and there is no one taking up this craft. May his hands continue to do this great work for years to come
Wow, thank you!
I am surely glad this was restored by you and not painted black by someone else who wanted the stains removed.
Me too! Thanks!
I see in you a kindred spirit. Your careful approach which inflicts as little damage as possible and when going back you take a common sense path of not doing too much but just enough. Good job. I've been down that same path myself a few times. Thanks for the video.
Thank you! I appreciate it
I am learning so much from you! I have a few pieces I've inherited from my grandmother that were antiques when I was a child, so that makes them really old! Some need work. At first I thought they just needed a little, but from watching your careful and detailed approach, I think I've changed my mind on that. They likely need much more than I can do myself so I think you've saved me from creating more problems than I started with! I love watching you transform a poor, old, at times mistreated piece of furniture into the beautiful object it was intended to be when made. And thank you for doing videos. And I appreciate that you include all the steps and details about what you're doing. And thanks so much for the opening and closing scenes of the animals and nature around your shop. It's a real treat!.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching!
I LOVE seeing the stains and patina...never would want a piece to see it look brand new...character is everything! Very nice job!
Thanks so much! 😊
This is great! I bought an old Thomasville table that someone had painted over. After stripping the paint, I understood why. Someone had put a potted plant on the table top and there was a large, black, water ring on the top surrounded by nasty discoloration. I bought some oxalic from a local neighborhood hardware store and followed your directions from previous videos. The top looks like brand new!
I live in Thomasville N.C . This was once the chair city and where good quality and pride was taken in the work. Now days everything is shipped from china to the TFI warehouse and put into boxes that say made in USA. Don't be fooled !!!! It is not made in the USA!!! Only the box it is in is made here. Gotta love loopholes huh..Thank you Thomas for the great content. I always learn something new from your videos.
When ever I've taken on refinishing a newer piece, it never ceases to amaze me how much better my refinishing job is always so much better then the piece ever had to begin with. So, not only does the overall quality of the furniture pieces stink, but the finish done on these pieces, stink as well. There is a trend right now where pieces are painted and then stressed out again to make it look like the piece evolved into what they're trying to accomplish. Some of those pieces turn out beautiful, but I have to say - when they put that finish on top of a antique piece it just makes me cringe. Those pieces should have gotten the advantage of restoring to their original finish, not changed by a paint finish that will hide the original beauty of the piece. I want to see that beautiful wood and the beautiful work that went into making those antique pieces. Paint the newer pieces instead.
@Rick1979 , that is a pretty good way of looking at an antique piece being painted. My mother painted many pieces of furniture at our house. I've got my old childhood . dresser sitting in our storage shed. I managed to rescue it before my mother was going to give it to charity. I rescued a few other pieces at the same time. Of course they were painted. When we moved into our first and only house as a child, the dresser was being left in the basement and my mother paid $3 for it. I remember the original finish on it, and knowing what I know today, it wasn't in bad shape at all. I am pretty certain it was original to the house because that is the vintage it is. It is oak with three coats of oil based paint on top of it. I was going to strip the finish, but maybe I should just freshen the paint on it, and call it done. I've got too many pieces to rescue as it is that are family pieces, that DON'T have a paint finish on them. Sometimes you just have to pick your battles, and move on. Someone will get it back to the original finish again, hopefully. There is an even bigger shame that happened to the woodwork in homes and that was people were painting it. Some of that woodwork has actually been removed and replaced with newer, modern woodwork. My mother painted all the woodwork in our old house, but at least that wood was a mahogony wood. It was all dented from damage through the years. I am very happy my parents sold the house to someone else. Thank goodness! I don't know if you've noticed it, but I have been hearing people calling the original woodworks in homes "orange" or poop colored. The kids are bringing out the paint brushes and you just know there are going to be homes getting their woodwork and kitchen cabinets freshly painted again. Even original brick on homes is being painted. Oh Lord! I can't watch, lol!
Thanks for watching! That's great!
Thanks for watching!
The man's an artist and a scientist. Nice dog, too.
Thank you!
I don't know why I'm watching this at 3 a.m. but you sure did a beautiful job on that table!
Thanks! I hope you got back to sleep!
@@johnsonrestoration . I have a table like this where I sanded through the veneer. 3 spots the size of a quarter. They wont take any stain. I've tried stain pens. What can i do to make them accept stain.
@@miketate8554 There are Minwax brand colored markers to use in matching color. Sometimes you dab it on at full strength and let it dry; or you may lighten the dab with a finger smear and let that dry being careful not to apply a top coat that wipes away the color.
We all have some nites. (Or morns) like this. Lol
The love you give to an old piece of furniture shows .... you are a master at your craft! Very insightful video.
Wow, thank you!
The client had to have been delighted with the result. I know I would’ve been. Beautiful work Tom!
Thanks!
I would love to see the people when they pick up their furniture.
as I have said before these are excellent how to reference materials, from an experienced practicing professional, who has helped me out, I have been asked to finish a guitar that has sat 40 years and covered in these exact marks that I need to treat before grain filling and sealing, thanks Tom.
You're welcome! Good luck with the guitar!
Something about old tables that is so inviting, and calming, at the same time.
Imagine all the elbows that have touched that top.
Tom, nice work, as always.
Thanks! That's a good one, about the elbows. I may have to use that!
what you do is more than craftsmanship... it's art! Beautiful!
Thank you!
You can tell by Mr. Johnson's attention to detail and labor intensive work, he takes pride in doing a professional job on this project. Beautiful results.
Thank you!
A pleasure watching you work, Sir. So considered and patient. I learnt a lot, thank-you!
You're welcome!
Tom, excellent video. I'm a fellow Mainer from Dover-Foxcroft and have been refinishing mainly oak for 50+ years and I continue to learn from your vast knowledge. Keep up the sharing. Thank you.
You're welcome!
I was born in Dover-Foxcroft but my parents moved away when I was 18 months old (father in Air Force). I hope to visit someday, what is it like. The house my parents rented was in the square by the bridge but I don't think that it's still standing. I've seen old photos and looked @ the site on Google Earth and the house doesn't seem to be there anymore. I also refinish antique furniture as jobs come up.
Truly enjoyed watching your Talent and passion shine through your work.
Thank you very much!
Another great job. I imagine most customers have no idea how much of your time has to go into achieving such a wonderful result. My hat's off to you on your stand with plastic and the environment. I vividly remember when we were all told to move away from paper grocery bags (save a tree) and into plastic ones. We were told how easily they would be recycled and how environmentally correct the decision was. So sad. Thanks again for posting.
Thanks! The whole plastic thing is depressing. We've ruined the world! I don't care about humans - they get what they deserve - but the animals, they were just minding their own business.A couple of weeks ago they found a dead whale in the Mediterranean with 48 lbs of plastic in it's stomach
Yeah, I remember those days. I am an art restorer and conservator. Gave speeches at guilds, antique clubs, etc and begged all to quit using plastic Everywhere! And throw that horrible off-gassing expensive Tupperware junk away. I had to go quite on that last piece of advice, one of my customer's father invented Tupperware. All the Sterlington boxes people buy for storage, not good at all.
That is supposed to say STERLITE, not the other.
I appreciate the mindful attention to details and the verbalization of your thought processes in making decisions. Very helpful!
You're very welcome!
That’s some very clever clamping on that leaf.
Excellent work (restoration) and production (video), as always. Such a treat when a new video posts!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the time, effort and cost you put into these videos but mostly for sharing your expertise.
You're very welcome!
Real Artisan Craftmanship. Great job, enjoyed watching and learned a lot.
Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome!
Amazing work! Your restoration brought that table back to life, restored it's dignity in the process, too.
Thank you very much!
Great job as usual. I was glued to the video, holding my breath as to how it would come out. You put a lot of work into that table and it's lovely.
Thank you!
This is a wonderful video. I didn't think the finished table would look so handsome but it really looks terrific.
Thank you for posting this.
You are so welcome!
Another great video, and lessons to be learned. as always filled with lots good tips. Thanks for sharing!.
You're welcome!
If i was the customer i would have been EXTREMELY pleased at the result & as a distant viewer quite envious of such a nice aged piece of furniture. A credit to your skills & thanks for showing us the amount of work put in to make it so...
Thank you!
Another entertaining video packed with information. Thank you very much for all your time and effort in these videos, they are greatly appreciated.
You are welcome! And I appreciate you watching!
I really like the way you keep your pieces of furniture as original as possible
Thanks! It took a lot of years to come around to that. When I started, everything got refinished! Back in the 70's. But it's so much more gratifying to save the old finish. There will always be situations where refinishing is necessary, but that's the exception now.
As always, such a great job! A wonderfully sympathetic restoration 👍
Thanks!
Awesome video from and old master. I'm 76 and learned a lot Tom. Love your shop, the old clamps, old fans,old tools still being used and the old patched jeans you're still wearing. You remind me of my brother. His name is Tom also and his shop looks similar to yours.
That's great! Thanks!
Superb Work. This is how to do things. I really enjoyed watching you. Thank you Sir.
You're welcome!
Looks great. I think the staining that's left only adds to the character of the table. Antiques hold many stories and you've added a beautiful chapter.
Thank you! It's always a challenge, to refinish while retaining character
Thank you for the uplifting nature scenes that bookend your videos. 🌸🌿
You're welcome!
Superb thoughtful refurbishment of the top, nice to see see there are still some craftsmen around that use traditional methods.
Thanks!
Color card at 16:00... very effective! I need to remember that, thank you! Very informative video BTW... I appreciate all the time and effort you put into this! Best, Matt
Thanks!
I came into this late, but I must say it shows you take pride in doing excellent exacting work. Bravo! That gate leg table will hopefully be handed down in the family and loved for 100 years more.
Thank you! Yes, it will
You did an amazing job on this beautiful table. So happy to see someone who really knows how to restore it the right way. I have a piece of vintage furniture in every room of my home, but budget demands I learn how to do something with them myself and I feel inadequate to the task! Thank you for the video.
You're welcome!
It's such a pleasure to watch a real craftsman at work. Thanks for this great video.
You're welcome!
Who needs an Easter egg when you can start the holiday weekend with a new Tom Johnson video?
Another excellent and informative video. Happy Easter Tom.
Thanks! And you too!
Beautiful work fabulous job matching the finish, and a nice treat for Easter, Thank you Tom Johnson for sharing your secrets with your ardent followers.
You're welcome!
THANK-YOU!!!! I've been trying to figure out how to clamp a round table like that for several years. Thanks to your video, I can now fix my table.
You're welcome! Good luck!
One can always tell when you have discovered a master of an art...discovery made! Thank you sir.
You're welcome!
Thomas, your piece turned out beautiful! I love it!
Thank you!
I found your channel just the other day and I'm completely hooked, the subject appeals to me and it's very well filmed but you are a very engaging and likeable man and I think that's the most important part. Made me happy to hear you trying to minimise the use of plastic and re-use any plastic you do use, fast becoming one of my heroes Thomas.
Thank you!
I love that bee's wax, I use it on my wood planes it stops rust and they work smooth. NICE WORK I always stop everything to watch your Videos.
Thanks! Good tip on the rust prevention, I'll try that
Wow, such a joy to watch a master craftsman at work, and excellent editing of the video. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Very great.
Thanks. I learn a lot of things.
You're welcome!
I am so glad I found your videos. You're a wonderful teacher. I think you and Bill Nye the Science guy have a similar knack for education.
Wow, thank you!
eech...these are wonderful videos. I do have workshop envy
Thanks!
Yet another fantastic job on what is a beautiful table, so well done, thanks for this.
You're welcome!
Hi Tom. I just found your channel recently and I love it. I really like your approach to furniture restoration. It's interesting that you don't go right for a chemical stripper that's fairly common from what I've seen on youtube. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that it's interesting how you handle your projects. Thanks for making these videos.
You're welcome! And thanks for watching!
Thanks so much for describing how you restore antiques to their former beauty as well as the choices you made and the reasons for making those choices. I learn so much from each video. I'm so excited to try my hand at restoration!
You are so welcome! Good luck!
Excellent job once again, I would like to see you do something from scratch with a mahogany or redwood or even the South African "stinkhout"
Thanks! Something will come along that's new wood
I'm a big fan of yours - have watched all your videos and appreciate your process and philosophy. What struck me most about this particular video was that more time was taken in showing the completed project and that it was shown from various points of view. As ever, a great result.
Thanks!
That color match is spot on! Love your craftsmanship and attention to detail while staying true to the character and age of the piece. By the way, how many clamps does your shop have? Haha
Thanks! My shop tour video shows all the clamps! th-cam.com/video/PRAtH8X1ECY/w-d-xo.html
Lovely to watch the process. So satisfying. Cheers Tom.
Thanks! 👍
That tables legs looks like my table got, different top tho. Also got chairs that match the table. And a sofa.
Nice work, looks great.
Thanks!
After I watch your videos I read many many comments and it's almost as much fun as watching your videos!
That's great! I have very good fans and commenters
Thomas you're like Bob Ross of woodworking
Thanks!
It’s nice to see damaged furniture brought back to life. I enjoy your shows.
Thanks!
Something tells me that that dog in the video Knows Alot About Furniture Refinishing
Tom ran an ad for an apprentice. The dog was the only one that showed up.
She also knows a lot about who has the treats!
True!
I ended up giving away a beautiful buffet because i couldn't fix the color. You with your incredible patience showed me how to. Thank you.
You're welcome!
I watched this while taking copious notes! I even ordered the oxalic acid while watching this! I have a beautiful old pine gate leg table. Not an antique but a sweet old piece with cigarette burns and staining. You have inspired me to try my hand at refinishing that top.
Thanks! Good luck! Cigarette burns are impossible! Don't try to sand them out, they are too deep.
Your experience working with colours and stains etc. Over the years, Came to the fore here. Excellent result Thomas.
Thanks!
The knowledge and experience that you have in that brain of yours never ceases to amaze me. Love your videos.
Thanks!
I was mesmerized, you are a true craftsman!
Thanks!
Thanks so much for sharing your considerable experience. Knowing how much time you have in your projects is very interesting and I also appreciate it when you share the names of the products you use in repair, restoration and refinishing. You've also raised clamping techniques to an art form! Thanks again.
You're welcome!
Great video on furniture stain removal and retaining character of a weathered piece of furniture. This helped me with several of my furniture repair projects at my home. Thanks for sharing!
You're very welcome!
You are such an artist, Tom. Love your videos.
Thank you!
‘I think it looks pretty good’. Cracking work Tom, teaching me a lot of tips and tricks.
Thanks!
Watching a skilled craftsman at work - love it - and I learned so much -thank you for sharing -
You're welcome!
Excellent, brought the table back to life again.
Thanks!
Stunning result, and once again very enjoyable to follow the progress. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome!
New subscriber. Amazing how much you can learn from someone who knows what they're doing and generous enough to share. Thanks for doing this, Mr J.
Welcome!
I really loved the look of the aged curly maple on the leaves. That is, by far, my favorite wood to work with. Like you, my hands are always sporting a bandage. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome! We should buy stock in Band-Aids!
Another great video from you! When you post a video, I am there! And I can say that even your lead-ins to your videos are so nice, nature, birds, pets and animals! I am a 72 year old DIYer that is already looking forward to your next video! Happy Easter, Rocky 😀😀😀
Thanks! Happy Easter to you too!
Thank you for the inspiration Tom! I have used oxalic acid today on a table that was stained with circles of some paint cans and the stains totally disappeared! Hats off to your knowledge and excellent tutorial with this and other videos where you show how you use oxalic acid. I am amazed at the results and my wife at first didn’t think it would work but thanks to you I am now the hero! Thanks for the awesome content and keep up the great work!
You're welcome! If I can help you gain points with the missus it is all worth it!
Thanks so much for telling us the time-commitment for these projects--it's great to know how much work TRULY goes into it. Beautiful work--thank you for sharing your experience with us.
You're welcome!
I appreciate knowing how much time you put in. It's fascinating.
Thanks!
I love that I'm not always thinking how I'd be doing things differently than you. People need to know that your skills make this stuff look easier than it is. Peace.
Thanks! But I'm trying to show how tough it is!
@@johnsonrestoration I stare at stuff a lot but that wouldn't be good on camera;-)
What a great job - Tom you're an artist!
Thanks! I don't know about artist! I think of myself as a tradesman
always nice to see a fella that knows his job. I wish I could spend a few days with you to learn some tips.
Thanks! Well, you could watch my videos!
@@johnsonrestoration I do watch them, but there is nothing like first hand experience .
Excellente approche et beau rendu ! comme toujours...
Merci! Je vous en suis reconnaissant!
The TJ patience/wisdom applied with tung oil and beeswax in 12.5 hours. Another masterpiece video to bless the refinishing world. I have an old gate leg table downstairs that will be redeemed through this.
Thanks! Good luck with it!
Colour is amazing and it doesn't look new,great job Tom.
Thanks!
Fantastic job. The table looks great!!
Thanks!
Great job Thomas, liked the way you attacked those water marks. Excellent well done.
Thank you very much!
Every time I watch one of your videos yoy answer the problem I’ve been wrestling with!
That's great! Thanks for watching
very nice work Thomas. thanks for posting.
You're welcome!
Whoever did your editing did an excellent job. Totally smooth insertion of each action with fluid voiceover. Rare on these youtube instructional video's.
Thank you! Yes, my editor, Nick Barker, is really good