Jenny has been getting to the bottom of the various paints available for conservation work and then mixing up colours and glazes to blend in the new areas of carving on the Chatsworth bookcases.

Oil based paints are now very hard to get and we are using Lime wash and various “dead flat” oil substitutes.

Jenny painting a new section of plinth.

Wynn is currently doing long lengths of secret mitre dovetails.

This is to produce an expanding oak table which is constructed as a hollow box to conceal a stainless steel expanding mechanism.

Wynn at work

The legs also are made as mitred boxes and mitre into the table top to give continuous grain match up the leg, along the top of the table and down its opposing leg.

The result of this should be a very simple looking table!

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