Repairing an Empire Style Secretary - Thomas Johnson Antique Furniture Restoration 

I could sit and watch your videos all day...oh, wait, I have spent much of my day watching your videos, and it has been a very worthwhile day.

This never gets old.....

Done well.....No wonder you have such beautifuly done project ..... I enjoy watching how you try to match missing veneer. I love how you end you videos saying "I think it looks pretty good." :)

I love your editing process, where you do not waste my time with a bunch of nonsense that doesn't add anything to the subject at hand. Plus, you don't overwhelm me with voice over loud music. Good job. Now, you did make me very nervice when you where pushing a piece of wood across your jointer without a push stick. I lost the bottom of my left pinkey finger. There was not enough skin left to stitch it so they just packed it with spounges and told me to grin and bare it. It was a long time healing and I still have nerve problems with it. Well, with that said, I really have learned a lot from your videos . . . thank you. Ron Budman.

"I think it looks pretty good." Love hearing that at the end.

Beautiful piece

love watching you restoring old furniture. ive got some old piece that I want to try my hands at fixing myself . and im getting great tips from watching your tutorials. thank you .regards Theresa

Good point, but i'm just trying to save as much of the original as I can. I had trouble matching the color, and your suggestion would have solved that problem. I'd be worried that I would not be succesfull removing the old veneer so it could be reused Tom

Your tutorials are an inspiration to me. That's the word I was looking for. Thanks

Excellent!

Looks really good!

Great Thom....

Hi Michael, Thanks, it must have been cut to go against a wall. It's hard to imagine doing that to a nice piece of furniture.

A great looking piece and a great repair... As always... I wonder if the top moulding was cut so it would fit next to a wall??? You have a nice stock of veneer. Thanks for posting. Take Care, Michael Frey

THANKS, I AM LEARNING ALOT FROM YOU

I always admire your ability to cut veneer. When I do it the stuff practically explodes into fragments. The key for me seems to be to use very sharp tools.

Fabulous! How did you ever get a solid wood repair to match a veneer? Another one for you compendium?

Looks pretty good. Always enjoy watching your videos. My guess, your house must favor a Danish Modern style.

I really like your job, this is very amazing, greetings from Indonesia

hi tom this is a 10/10 from derby in the uk

I understand the desire to save as much of the original piece as possible, but wouldn't the cornice have looked a lot better with a whole new sheet of veneer across the face? The old veneer section could have been steamed-off and used to repair all the other chips on the case.

Did you decide against the astragal or did you forget?

I have been cleaning and waxing my antique pieces and t was all going well until today. The walnut sideboard top did fine, but the sides and doors look like the finish came right off with my cleaning. Dull and blotchy, even after the beeswax. My guess is it needs to have the finish redone. Any suggestions?

I just found you - spent the last week catching up. And now I find you are retiring... NO! Can you recommend a decent replacement? I have an old Empire game table with hand made half round caps for the edges of the top. Any recommendations for making replacements for missing bits?

Bravo respekt 🙋‍♂️😍🙋‍♂️🤝❤

I have a question as to why did you use yellow glue for the veneer and the hide glue on the corner of the cornice?

In the 1830-40's, how did they make veneer ?