would you accept this? 

I have one like that. It belonged to my great grandmother. It has served 7 generations of our family. It was refinished for me when I was expecting my daughter. It’s hard to think how long ago that was🥰. She is a grandmother of teenagers now. The chair is going strong but it could use a touch up again.

Love the quartersawn white oak- the grain is all the decoration you need! nice job as usual!

Cheers. On minute 6:31 you said stop talking... We are not worried about your talk . As a matter of fact it's music to our ears and as a bonus it comes with some teaching moments. Nice work as usual.

I've never heard this referred to as Morris style before. I just thought they were arts and crafts or mission style. I have this same chair. They're timeless.

This chair brings back memories. I bought one exactly like it 40 years ago with a black and white buffalo check seat cushion. I sold it years ago when down sizing and I miss it dearly, esp. when it squeaked when I rocked my grand son. You did a great job

Hi,would love a chair like that,can you imagine if that chair could talk the stories happy and not so happy,also how many babies rocked to sleep,well done lady always a treat watching you're craftsman/woman regards

A charming old chair, like my grandmother's favorite rocker. I at first thought "Stickley" when I saw it here.

Hi I love watching your work and I like the look of the chair and , apparently, a Morris chair always has a adjustable back on it.

I like to soften the look and use 4000 wire wool and beeswax using various amounts of pressure until I am happy with the finish. I do not like mirror gloss finishes. Another lovely sympathetic piece of work as always.

not only you work very well, you speak well too. I take this opportunity to improve my English at the same time. Merci

Beautiful Trena that HowardsFeed-n-Wax leaves a wonderful finish on wood that is my go to finish most of the time!

Great job on that chair I had one just like that. It was stolen when I put it on my front porch. I miss that. God bless.

Love this chair, definitely in the style of William Morris one of the male leads for the Arts and Craft Movement, that then led us seamlessly onto Art Nouveau. However people also need to be reminded that it wasn't just men who were pioneers in the arts and crafts movement, May Morris, Mary Seton Watts, Margaret Macdonald were as important if not more so. It was there designs for fabrics, wall coverings and glass that made the movement more accessible.

I love working with shellac on quarter-sawn oak.

Trenda a professional like u can handle this, no problem, however the stains not clean up even with oxalic acid, I'm sure it will be a beautiful job when done!

I am sitting in a rocking chair just like this one, right now. Belonged to my grandparents.

You have an amazing eye for the aesthetic of every piece on which you work. I'm sure the owner of this chair will be thrilled with how beautiful it looks now.

I love the morris and craftsman era and style furniture and trim work

Heck yes, I'd accept this; I love Arts & Crafts furniture. Very nice job by the way. Incidentally, I'm not sure "Morris chair" is correct. A Morris chair is usually a reclining , adjustable easy chair that has pegs or a rod to keep the back at the chosen angle for comfort. Thanks for all you've taught me. I look forward to your videos!

Excellent job, takes me back the first restoration I ever undertook was a chair that belonged to my Grand Mother, had the remains of a label "Morris Marshall Faulkner & Company"

My favorite species of wood quartersawn oak. Most of my furniture is made with quarter sawn oak. Wonderful job on that chair Trena

Beautiful job on a great chair. I especially like the stain you used to give it the classic mission look. Well done.

I suppose she is refinishing with shellac again. I must get my rocker done! I gave a loose arm on the right. Sure wish she would have had that repair to do ! Thank you Trena. Ahhh I just heard Lacquer!

Just what I needed this Monday morning. Thanks Trena!

This chair is not only beautiful but has the history still in the piece. Thank goodness someone didn't paint this

I like those spots! Glad they're staying. Great music choices BTW.

This chair looks exactly like the one I had several years ago. It disappeared years ago. Loved that chair. its so lovely and comfortable. Great job young lady!

Mission well done!!!👍👏🤗

From old and tired looking, to new and beautiful looking. A job well done, as usual.

Thanks for this video Trena. My wife brought home this exact rocker but with both of the rails(?) crewed rather badly by a puppy. I rebuilt the rails and was wondering how to refinish the chair. You saved me a ton of research! As always, very nice work in the restoration. Look forward to the next project!

45 years ago my brother and I built 2 Mission style rockers out of white oak that look remarkably like this. The oak we used was cut and dried by a local sawyer in our home county. They are still around and in very good condition.

I have a William Morris rocking chair very similar to this one. I just love Mission/Arts and Crafts furniture. This is a lovely rocking chair too. You spruced it up wonderfully.

Maybe the chairis a limbert another big maker of Mission furniture. Those spots maybe remains of the original finish alot of the mission furniture was a fumed Ammonia fish maybe if it was refinished before it couldn't all be gotten off. Nice JOB!

Très joli travail,bravo,à bientôt salut Jeannot 😉⚒

I love seeing old furniture repaired. Seems criminal to me to throw good hardwoods away when a little restoration can bring it back to life. Lovely job.

Yes, I would accept that‼️👍🏻

Wow! So beautiful! I want that rocker in my house!

My favorite style, Morris Style Furniture!

Gorgeous! I'd love to have a rocker like that. Great job as always!

You are an artist!

Back when I was in college I bought an oak swivel chair that had been painted a kind of military gray. I needed something to keep me focused during summer break instead of doing stupid things college kids do sometimes. I wish I knew more about refinishing furniture but I just did what I thought I could on my budget. I still have that chair 50 years later and it still looks good. Amateur luck, but had I had access to this video then It could have been even better. Thanx!

I have a chair like this too. It came from the garage/ barn of a farm house that was near our home almost 40 years ago. It had been home to some varmits ( seat of the chair) and perhaps a dog had chewed on the back of one of the rockers. I think I paid $50 for it, but maybe not even that. It needs a lot of love, but I temporarily "fixed the seat and covered it, cleaned the entire chair, snd we are still using it as is. One arm needs to be glued where it joins the bac, but it lives on as is. I wish I had Trena near me . I found an old picture of on of my great grandparents homes and there sat an old rocker on the porch very much like mine. I was thrilled. This one has rocked 3 grands and one great grand since I've had it.

Love these chairs. They are sit by the fireplace, reading a book chairs. I love the imperfections. A good metaphor for all of us aging. Excellent work as always

You do such beautiful work. You truly are a talented person.

My dad instructed me to do exactly that on an old Morris recliner as well as a couple of oak office chairs that were in a railway station. Lord they were sure coated in coal dust and grime! We finished them up with a satin coat of I think varathane? Going back 40 years here Love your channel

My grandfather had a chair like that. I won't tell the long boring story about it but I will say it was the first chair I ever sat in that the cushion was so worn I sank into. I was about 7 or 8 then that puts it in about 1969. You did a fantastic job of making it look it's age. Thank you for bringing back a great memory.👍👍👍

I love those jobs just a rejuvenation of finish nice job McCormack and Son,s Restorations Qld Australia

I have this chair! It belonged to my grandparents. I’d like to refinish it.

Another flawless family heirloom.

Thank You for sharing the restoration of this chair with us! Watching this was relaxing and very educational. I have learned more important details of furniture restoration from your videos than anyone else I watch. I would adopt a sturdy handsome rocking chair like this one, with or without a seat, in a heartbeat! One of my Great Uncles had a chair like this with a brown leather seat, and I always loved sneaking a few minutes in that special chair. I love that you have the experience and skill to notice the rough front under-edge that catches on clothes. It's the small details like that which can make such a big difference in restoring a piece of furniture. This is another lovely restoration! ❤ 👉🏻 I would love to know how you constructed your spray booth! 😄

Thank you for your time and the education!

Superb work, I’m learning so watching and listening to you, thank you Trena

I have one of these rocking chairs! It was my Momma's.

A much loved and used chair

I've learned so much about finishes and procedures from your videos. Thank you for sharing. Great work as usual.

I love that style chair and never knew what it was called. Thanks

Nice refinish. It looks great! and I see Woodsley had some input also, lol

Seeing you, with such care & expertise, doing an excellent job of repairing & refinishing all these pieces of furniture I used to own when I lived in San Francisco & Mill Valley, California USA. The SF house had many old pieces, and I added more as people were cheaply selling them or gotten free. All usually needed work (that you are doing). My brother, John, was supposed to help me with the fixes, but didn't, so most did not get done. Other people said they would, but I quickly found they had no idea how to do it. Can you imagine how I felt when one guy was using very course grain sandpaper & scratching the wood because he was going across the grain! I yelled, "Stop! ...and never had him "helping" again! It was obvious he had no knowledge about properly working with wood! [See separate Comment re this rocker]

You’ve worked your magic again, stunning chair, love the finish👍

If anyone is interested there is a yt video on the “Craftsman” origins. It’s called “Craftsman Bungalow” on Vox. I found it fascinating since I have my Grandfather’s Rocking chair similar to the one your sprucing up with a thick leather cushion. Along with the writing table and barristers book case, also the most essential keyed liquor cabinet. They were custom built for him by a storefront shop with local craftsmen in my area. The order number with his name is written on the back of the bookcase. It even has a secret compartments for sensitive documents.

Absolutely love that chair! You did a wonderful job 😊

Trenas work is always top notch

Looks like a L & J.G. Stickley rocker (or a nice copy).My eldest daughter has one I picked up when manager at The Village Stripper in NYC, back in the '70s.

Beautiful! And mission rockers imo are the worst in that EVERYTHING shows. And if it doesn't show right away, it will when the customer rocks in it. So it's kinda detail oriented. You did a wonderful and detailed job. Way to go!

Beautiful oak. I would love to see this with the seat, but I understand the customer kept the seat.

Love this chair reminds me of my Grandmother

I’d love one! My grandparents on both sides each had one.

I would love a Mission style rocker, beautiful chair.

Really, really nice! I have a Morris style rocker identical to this one. Will reference your restoration of this rocker as I work on mine. Thanks for sharing!

An absolutely lovely restoration! This Mission Style rocker looks stunning and most likely better than the day it was made. Thanks for sharing your magic with us!

About 30 years ago I built my first Morris chair. I drew up my chair in autocad and used Norm Abram's TV show New Yankee Workshop to get the joinery details correct. I made that first chair from South Texas Mesquite we milled from dead trees. Ten years later I made another matching chair out of white oak as the Mesquite situation had changed for me. I took the Shipley approach and fumed the chair using ammonia. That was an experience! Id love to make a rocker and that one you are working on would be perfect. I love the curved back and how it fits into the uprights. Im also on the verge of making new leather cushions for my pair in the living room. I really enjoy watching you work and to listen to your thoughts on the jobs you do. All my best!

The chair looks great, Merry Christmas to you and your family Trena.

I like the before and after shots at the end!

I wish that was my chair. I admire your work

My grandmother had a rocker very similar to this. We refinished it about the same way, but without the Howard Feed-N-Wax. After seeing your results, I'll be adding it as a finish. It should really bring out the tiger oak and soften the look. Beautiful job on the chair.

It's an older chair. It should have some marks of life. Without them the chair would look new. I loved the music!

minimal intervention in the piece.. exactly what it required.. and the finish compliments the beauty of the piece. I love watching you work.. nice job!

So nice❤

Nice! Was not too sure on the color at first, but I liked the end result -- not too dark/light. Really turned out well. Personally, I like those water/mineral spots, adds character and age to the chair as it should; gracefully. Thanks for sharing.

very nice brings out the grain after a refinish 🤟👌

Beautiful job. The chair is glowing with appreciation for the restoration.

Beautiful..I would be proud to have it.

I’ve got the exact one. It belonged to my grandfather’s grandparents who died about a hundred years ago. Mine still has the original leather-covered seat cushion although I have covered it with fabric. Have to say mine is pretty creaky when you rock in it and it definitely doesn’t look as nice as the one you finished. You always do such nice work!

that looks 10,000 times nicer after you worked your magic you are incredibly talented and i appreciate you!

Looks like a beautiful rocker.

You are a master of your craft.

Another diamond in the extreme “rough”! But again you worked your magic and that diamond is shining!

Quietly spectacular!

Thank you for this very enjoyable restoration. Your respect for old wood is appreciated.

I. Did one like this ,50 ‘years ago,re glued all the joints,and striped it right back to the bear wood,it was made in the 30,’s,the squab was missing ,but it was all bees wax ,and dust polished in,a gallon of meths ,wire wool,and soft brushing,soon gave up that white oak worn look, I just used to heat up the bees wax ,add a little meths in it, and brush it on hot ,and chase it with a hot air gun ,on low a heat ,give it a day to set ,then the hard work begins,brushing in and removing all the surplus wax,slowly bringing out all the wood grain, with a good hard wax it allows the marks and dents to look like they were ,part of its history and blend in,and the new squab I made a green leather with upholstery,webbing and springs,I did this as a gift,and my friend was over the moon.just sum thing to do in the winter evenings.

Love them. I think the style is Mission, the Morris chair was a Mission style recliner with an interesting push button mechanism that via springs, wire & metal armature reclined & raised the front apron. I had one I got as far as repairing the mechanism then had to pass it on as life changed. I did refinish the two Mission side pieces, one side chair & one short back rocker. These were all cushioned with leather upholstery & reattaching the upholstery in that old oak was challenging. Your work is amazing!

You do wonderful work. I have worked with wood for a while and have found that on red oak water stains a little lemon juice works wonders.

Another beautiful job

I like it with the spots, age spots or freckles.

This chair looks just like ones my grandparents, then my parents and now my sister has. They are so wonderful to sit and rock in. What a great job.

Oh yes, infact I have one in my living room.

I found my rocker in a painted in closet on the 3rd floor of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house in Colorado Springs in 1970. Left it there.

I have the same rocker. And the matching morris recliner. L&J Stickley

swell restain job, and happy holidays, Ed from Simsbury, CT/USA

Yes I would! Amazing work! Always!