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scraping degraded top coating from entrance door.

4/7/2013

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the studio in May 17 2012

5/17/2012

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Problems found during restorations.

3/4/2012

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Detail of a corner of a cabinet door, before intervention.

The structural "soul" of each door, made of plain cut pine boards, had physical deformation with considerable shrinkage, producing damage to the figured walnut veneer plaque in both sides of the doors. The unaligned edge in the picture is the result of that shrinkage, where the central pine board meets cross pine rails butt-joined on top and bottom, as shown in the sketch below.

The only solution for this problem was to disassemble each door in its pine pieces where cracks and open joins were visible, priorly assuring that the fragile veneer in these areas was re-glued in place before any cut. Eventually some veneer fragments had been temporarily hung beyond the edge of the pine board, forcing the intervention to be done with extreme caution and precision.
The cuts made also at the top and bottom rails had to be chosen in places where the inlaid band shapes would not be compromised in it's alignments and curvatures.
To extract as minimal material as possible, a veneer saw was used for all the cuts, and this saw also allowed a precise and sharp edge in the veneer plaques.
A few grooved wooden pin dowels were introduced as join reinforcements, when the rails were put back in proper alignment with the rest of the door.
Cold set hide glue was used in every glue procedure; Lee Valley® fish glue was used in this intervention.
Araldite AV 1253 epoxy carvable paste was used as gap filler, and touched-up with acrylic paints.

The intervention was done in mid 2011, and toke about 3 months to conclude.

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Separating the top veneered rail from the central panel, with a veneer saw.
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The top rail, separated from the main panel, was divided in three other parts, where in she locations thin sections were ablated so that the whole length of the rail could fit in the profile of the door.
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After the ablation of the sections in cross section, small pin dowels were put for extra joint into this location where end grain to end grain was re-glued.
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Other veneer fragments, detached from the piece, were glued back in place.
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The whole look of the cabinet with the doors restored. This module is then placed on a stand (not included in the picture).
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3/4/2012

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    the more challenging a restoration is, the better the days are in the studio.

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