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Victorian Dining Table Restoration

A water-damaged mahogany top brought back to a mirror finish without stripping its patina.

  • Duration: 4 days
  • Finish: Hand-applied shellac
  • Heat-ringed mahogany top before treatment
  • Cutting back the failed shellac film
  • Bodying up the new finish by hand
  • The finished mirror-depth table top

Chelmsford

About this project

The table came to us with heat rings across the leaf and a top coat that had gone milky under years of spills. Stripping it would have taken the colour with it, so we cut back only the failed film.

Twelve bodied-up sessions later the grain reads at full depth again, and the owner's grandmother's repair to the pedestal is still visible, which is exactly what they asked for.

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