Re: Products to stain barefaced oak
Posted: Fri 20 May, 2022 7:46 pm
Hi Dermot,
It might not take ages to get things right. I've got a bit more practice that I have not actually mentioned when I was a bookbinder, paper conservitor and restorer of antique and historic documents for an antique books, documents and memorabilia dealer in Portsmouth, learned to decorate leather bookbindings with gold leaf, guiding the fore edges of pages in books and repairing of illumiated letters on old ducuments. Bookbinders don't gild onto gesso, but apart from that much of the rest is the same. I needed to do this at a time, when I was out of a job due to illness at the time and the owner of the business offer the chance to do some work for him and I bought the necessary tools, materials and some books teaching the subject from a major bookbinding supplier, which was at that time in Park Royal, West London and just got started.
I also was a part time antique furniture restorer at one time in Surrey, when I was out of work again due to illness at another time. I've had a few changes of direction in what I did as a career during the various times that I was ill over the years. My chosen career and the job that I most wanted was as a design engineer. As an engineer, I worked for several radio, television and imaging related companies, then I worked for the defence industry, several automotive companies, a railway systems company, a formula one engineering companies, two major telecommunications companies and an underground radar systems company which made underground remote survey systems. One day, I got made redundant and I could not easily walk into another engineering job.
I've largely doing my own thing as self employed ever since and somehow I ended up doing this. It was not anything which wasever planned, itsort of happened, at the time I had not long been married and I needed to do something to provide for my wife and myself. I did not really have much idea what I was letting myself in for either. About 27 years later, I'm still here. my wife says she married me for richer, or poorer and much poorer. We've been through some very difficult times during those years. My wife has had a whole lot of serious operations and more recently a stroke and I've had a heart attack and two strokes. In the last twenty years, I've sort of lost the urge to keep doing new and different things, so picture framing will be my last job, but I am still an engineer at heart none the less!
It might not take ages to get things right. I've got a bit more practice that I have not actually mentioned when I was a bookbinder, paper conservitor and restorer of antique and historic documents for an antique books, documents and memorabilia dealer in Portsmouth, learned to decorate leather bookbindings with gold leaf, guiding the fore edges of pages in books and repairing of illumiated letters on old ducuments. Bookbinders don't gild onto gesso, but apart from that much of the rest is the same. I needed to do this at a time, when I was out of a job due to illness at the time and the owner of the business offer the chance to do some work for him and I bought the necessary tools, materials and some books teaching the subject from a major bookbinding supplier, which was at that time in Park Royal, West London and just got started.
I also was a part time antique furniture restorer at one time in Surrey, when I was out of work again due to illness at another time. I've had a few changes of direction in what I did as a career during the various times that I was ill over the years. My chosen career and the job that I most wanted was as a design engineer. As an engineer, I worked for several radio, television and imaging related companies, then I worked for the defence industry, several automotive companies, a railway systems company, a formula one engineering companies, two major telecommunications companies and an underground radar systems company which made underground remote survey systems. One day, I got made redundant and I could not easily walk into another engineering job.
I've largely doing my own thing as self employed ever since and somehow I ended up doing this. It was not anything which wasever planned, itsort of happened, at the time I had not long been married and I needed to do something to provide for my wife and myself. I did not really have much idea what I was letting myself in for either. About 27 years later, I'm still here. my wife says she married me for richer, or poorer and much poorer. We've been through some very difficult times during those years. My wife has had a whole lot of serious operations and more recently a stroke and I've had a heart attack and two strokes. In the last twenty years, I've sort of lost the urge to keep doing new and different things, so picture framing will be my last job, but I am still an engineer at heart none the less!