Our team of French polishers loves to listen to music. We listen to it when we’re in the car, we listen to it in our spray polishing workshop, you may even catch us whistling a tune or two when we’re on a French polishing job. Interestingly, this love of music may come from being professional French polishers because guitars are very commonly treated with a French polish. 
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full listFirst a wooden Vespa – now a wooden car! Our wood restoration dreams move from two wheels to four
Wow – what IS the trend for wooden forms of transport? No sooner have we discovered a Carlos Alberto’s beautiful wooden Vespa than we find a wooden racing car right here in the UK!
Wooden Wonders we’d like to have French polished: 23. Rolf Harris’s didgeridoo
Ah, Rolf Harris. A national institution if ever there was one. And as well as Animal Hospital, Jake the Peg and royal portrait-painting, the multi-talented Rolf is famous for playing the didgeridoo. Perhaps he could do with our specialist French polishing services to help ensure his didgeridoo doesn’t become a didgeridon’t?
Catching the rays… not so good for you or for your wood!
Is there any sight more comforting to the soul than a ray of sunlight seeping in through a window? And the sun peeping out from behind the clouds just as you begin your summer picnic is sure to send your heart soaring. But as anyone who’s ever experienced the agony of sunburn will know, too much of a good thing is terrible!
Wooden Wonders we’d like to have French Polished: 15. My Grandfather’s Clock
We’re going to take you back to your primary school – or possibly your brass band days, depending on your experience – for our next fictional French polishing challenge. Because here at Terry Waters French Polishing, we distinctly remember singing the song “My Grandfather’s Clock” at primary school… although we’re told it’s also a favourite with brass bands, colliery bands and even on the bluegrass circuit!
The painstaking beauty of French Polishing
Here at Terry Waters French Polishing, we’re nothing if not perfectionists. Like an animator, a traditional lace-maker or one of those artists who creates tiny sculptures in the eye of a needle, we know that if a job’s worth doing, it’s worth taking your time over.
French polishing: The long-term solution for making wood look good
Ah, dusting. Surely one of the most tedious of household activities – a task that makes ironing look positively glamorous by comparison. But the timeless popularity of wood means we’ve all got wooden tables, sideboards or bookcases in our home in need of an occasional dust and a spray with a can of furniture polish – right?
Shellac – the natural heart of French Polishing
What do Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a spherical ball of dung and French Polishing have in common? Answer: They’re all products of beetles!
Wooden Wonders We’d Like To Have French Polished: 12. Jenny’s cello from An Education
Have you seen Bafta-winning film An Education? Hotly-tipped and narrowly missing out at last year’s Oscars, this stylish and idiosyncratic British film is the story of a bored schoolgirl in 1960s suburban London and her fling with a man twice her age. But never mind the plot synopsis – here at Terry Waters French Polishing, what caught our eye was the starring role given to a truly beautiful cello!
Why French polishing produces the perfect finish
Remember the fable of the hare and tortoise? Well, here at Terry Waters French Polishing, we’re proud to be tortoises. That’s not say our work is necessarily slow – goodness me no, with our spray-finishing service for high-volume work, we can provide a quality finish for multiple items (chairs, perhaps, or skirting boards) in next to no time.
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