The other day I was walking past an antique shop and decided to stop in and have a quick browse. Amid the lamps and porcelain statuettes was a beautiful wooden chess set. Each piece was hand carved and the attention to detail was perfect. I was really impressed the quality of craftsmanship involved. 
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French Polishing for Antique Chess Set
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!
Turning our wood restoration expertise to the most unusual of items
Now, you might think that wooden forms of transport went out with the Ark. Well, let’s face it, you probably wouldn’t be far wrong. Here at Terry Waters French Polishing, we’re no stranger to, say, wood restoration on board a luxury yacht – but long gone are the days when wooden hulls were a common shipbuilding sight.
Wooden wonders we’d like to have French polished: 27. Gaudi’s wooden calvet chair
Think of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) and you’ll most likely think of the intricate, ornate designs of buildings in Barcelona. But Gaudi wasn’t just an architect – and he turned his talents for creating beauty out of intricacy to more than just buildings. He was determined that his vision would extend not just to the buildings he designed, but to the objects that would be kept within them.
New French Polishing ‘touching out’ video release
Following on from the success of our first French polishing video – just under 1500 views in the first four months at our YouTube channel – Terry Waters French Polishing have released a second video, this time focussing on the art of wood touching out.
Let Terry Waters French Polishing put your house in order with our restoration services
If you’ve ever watched TV programmes such as Grand Designs, Property Ladder or DIY SOS, you might well have picked up on an important – indeed, a crucial fact when embarking on any sort of major restoration project – and that’s the order in which things are done.
Wooden Wonders we’d like to have French polished: 25. the Mathematical Bridge, Cambridge
Prepare to have a myth busted! You’ve probably heard that the Mathematical Bridge, crossing the river Cam in Cambridge, was designed by Sir Isaac Newton without using any nuts or bolts, instead relying on opposing forces to keep the structure taught.
French polishers’ tips for furniture restoration
Some elegant items of antique wooden furniture will do well at auction. But what about those bits of wooden furniture so many of us have, or inherit, that aren’t so much elegant and antique as, well – just ugly and old?
Turning our French polishing expertise to country houses
Oh how we love watching Channel 4’s Country House Rescue here at Terry Waters French Polishing.
Let us work our magic on your wooden floor
Such is the pervasiveness of the continuing trend for exposed wooden floorboards, it seems unthinkable that once pretty much every pub, restaurant and home you walked into had wall-to-wall carpets throughout.
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