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    Antique Restoration and Craft Woodwork
    Antique Restoration and Craft Woodwork
    Antique Restoration and Craft Woodwork
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    Antique Restoration and Craft Woodwork

    By Kevin Dwyer

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    A thorough look at antique restoration and craft woodwork. These days I mostly manufacture and sell online, there seems to be a keen interest in the historical nature of the subject and products. If anyone buying the book has a specific question or would like a PDF version then get in touch. Kd.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Dwyer
    Release dateOct 7, 2013
    ISBN9781301876433
    Antique Restoration and Craft Woodwork
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    Kevin Dwyer

    I began the Tai Chi in 1987 whilst at college for my BA Hons in Social Science. The format was brought to the UK by Lam Kam Cheun and the praxis is known as Zhang Zhung. It took a while to notice it was not standard Tai Chi, I was shown a lot of chi kung so I just practiced it. If I recall the first couple of years were pretty boring. Zhang Zhung, it turns out, is the spiritual home of Tibetan Buddhism.In this rather dull period tai chi wise we’d practice sword forms, Choi Lee Fut (kung fu form), 2 man forms, push hands, technique sparring, touch sparring, wrestling and massage. The other guys and girls would sometimes also kit up in protective gear and batter each other in full contact sessions. After about four years tai chi is more interesting in itself at a stage called Man or awareness.It’s easy enough to write about this now but one does become aware of something tangible. From about 1992 I took an interest in both the local spiritualist church and a meditation called Knowledge taught by Prem Rawat (also known as Maharaji). As it turns out our local mediums had strong links with the Silver Birch book and post war mediumship in the UK.For four years I was taught rather personally by Maharaji and his instructors. I’d stand up in front of thousands of people or in small rooms and ask questions. First time I saw him in Brighton I stood up and said give me Knowledge. He was nice to me even then now I think about it and just said don’t stick it in a box. After lots of travelling around and many questions later I received the techniques of Knowledge at a plush Hotel in Gatwick Airport, conveniently situated for Maharaji to take off to some other part of the world.No longer an aspirant for Knowledge but a Premie (trad. translates as divine lover) I turned my attention to studying with the Tibetan Lamas. Many are the heads of lineage such as H H Sakya Trizin, Dzogchen Rinpoche and Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche. More extensively with Tenzin Wanyal, and his teacher Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche who taught me Chod, Bardo, dream yoga, Five Elements and an unusual transmission that can be summed up as nothing more than “leave it as it is”.I am particularly grateful to Khensur Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche, Lama Doboon Tulka, His Eminance Luding Khen Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsulrim Rinpoche, His Eminance Rizong Rinpoche, Lama Khemsar, Lama Lekshey and Namkai Norbu and Ringu Tulka.From 2004 - 2006 I went back to college to study media and video production having sold a late 18th century basement flat that my father and I restored. Filming and lounging around a good while with Nik Turner from Hawkwind I also make trippy videos. I like to mention him as he really is a great inspiration for getting up and doing things. That and his lyrics and associated artwork appear to have shaped UK culture to a large extent. Kd

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      Antique Restoration and Craft Woodwork - Kevin Dwyer

      Introduction

      I should say a little about myself by way of introduction. At school I only liked the woodwork teacher. He was amazing, he’d take his chisel to my attempted dovetails and they’d look like dovetails. Mr Doncaster he was called. I think my mother still has some of the objects that I made during O levels – a dibber, a mallet, a bowl and eggcups. All but my first year after college has revolved around woodworking. A veneer factory for a year was possibly the hardest work, non-stop all day and I polished the lacquer on top of the walnut veneers. The high tech end of the woodworking industry, the veneers were for the interiors of expensive cars, Saabs etc. Air powered palm sanders with 400 to 800 grit papers were used to flatten the lacquer and then the parts were polished on large buffing machines that would rip the pieces out of your fingers and destroy them on the floor if one wasn’t careful.

      Much of my restoring I’ve done at home. I started out working for a pine shop and when not staining and waxing the stock I’d restore antiques. I’d just restore pieces I liked the look of or what was given to me. Old oak furniture is very satisfying, doesn’t matter how dark and filthy it has become, it always cleans up beautifully. I restored 50 old oak school desks which I bought for a few pounds each, ironically from my old grammar school, I don’t think one of them spent more than 2 weeks in the pine shop over in Windsor, many of them spent only two days before being sold.

      I was poached from the Pine Shop by the antiques restorer O’Connors which was at the back of the Yard (and still over in Windsor). When it comes to knowing what one is talking about the big difference is production. O’Connors was an antiques restoring factory. I’d strip furniture outside all year, teach the various more temporary labourers what was expected and then I’d be inside doing the repairs to boot. One year it was so cold I got frostbite on my ears. I don’t think paint stripper freezes at zero, it gets colder than that.

      Everything at O’Connors was sprayed with several coats of cellulose. It made the furniture look like new again, it’s the way O’Connors

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