Stopakurde’s Workshop Notes on Restoring Old Furniture

Field notes

The project organizes restoration around diagnosis before intervention: readers are directed to identify woods and joinery, record prior repairs, test finishes discreetly, and stabilize structural faults before improving appearance. Its examples include hand-cut dovetails, veneer over a different core wood, shellac applied with a muñequilla, animal glue, woodworm exit holes, and moisture damage. The homepage also asks readers to consider whether long-standing non-original repairs have become part of a piece’s history.