Antique and Furniture Restoration
Have fun and enjoy the new confidence of bringing your wonderful old piece of furniture back to its former glory in a traditional way. This course is hands-on where you will work with your own project and learn the techniques required to do a quality restoration.
Entry requirements
You must wear strong, enclosed footwear. Clothing should not be of a flowing nature, preferably fitted garments to prevent clothing becoming caught in moving machinery.
Student instructions
For Workplace Health & Safety reasons you are not permitted to enter the TAFE workshops without closed in shoes.
The project you will be working on will be discussed at the first class.
Topics
- Students will be taught how to look at their restoration piece with a simple eye, to observe how their piece was constructed, so it can be pulled apart the same way if joints are loose, this is very important. I can turn a complicated job into a simple one.
- Students will learn minor repairs to chairs, including breaks in legs and runners, doweling broken joints. Learn how to use a drill if needed. Repairs to drawer runners and split tops on tables or chests.
- They will learn how to glue and clamp joints of whatever description in a proper manner.
- Projects like repairing and veneering old sewing machines.
- Learning how to fill holes using a variety of fillers, also how to fix warps and dints in timber.
- Students can also tackle picture frame repairs, including repairing the plaster work around the frame
Career Prospects
n/a
Presentation
Practical – hands – on course. Students will work on their own project, also you will be able to observe what other students are working on, this will broaden your knowledge as well.
Outcomes
Having fun and enjoying the new confidence of bringing your wonderful old piece of furniture back to its former glory in a traditional way
