Antique furniture: manufacturing techniques with photo examples

Antiques always valued and prized by collectors and lovers of antiques. Decorate the room by creating an extraordinary antique-style furniture with his own hands. Option self-production of furniture production is economical and unique.

Methods of manufacture of aged furniture

Producing wood furniture antique with your hands, you should know the basic techniques of wood aging. Highly master during wood processing methods applied, the surface of furniture sostarivayut:

• chemical treatment;
• finishing with fire;
• mechanical motions.

After studying the details of each reception, even a novice painter and carpenter will create an antique piece of furniture.

chemical treatment

Make furniture from antique pine with their own hands is possible, using a chemical finish. This method is characterized by treating the chemical countertops, forming an aging appearance.

Working with chemical elements, observe the following precautions.

1. Adhere strictly accurate dosing of reagents.
2. Perform the actions of chemicals in the respirator is necessary and with caution - pollutants affect human health.
3. When working with chemicals, it is necessary to wear protective gloves.

Adhering to the above rules, even a beginner will create an antique wardrobe and a chair with his hands.

Heat treatment

Variant thermal treatment of wood surface is characterized by performing operations with an open flame. Carpenters used a blowtorch, directing fire flow on the surface of the table. When exposed to fire burn wood layer intermittently, creating the desired effect.

After graduating from the manipulation of fire, wizard performs the following actions.

1. Processes a wooden surface with sandpaper.
2. It covers an area prepared transparent or matte varnish.

The combination of chemical and heat treatment to add subjects uniqueness. Artificial aging of wood is achieved by mechanical finishing. Joiner handles table surface or other metal brush, making movements along fiber. After finishing machining specialist goes on furniture with sandpaper, varnishes the finished product area.

brushed

Make old furniture can be brushing technique. Craftsmen create unique cabinets or tables with antique view. Wood treated by brushing, perfectly fit into the interior of the apartments in the "Provence" style or "country".

The method described is suitable for the treatment of floors, beams, panels and harmoniously looks forging and large plants.

Brushed achieved:

• obrabatyvaniya surface for metal brush;
• cleaning from dust and wood residues;
• staining the finished square with a dark color;
• coating the prepared varnish countertop.

This method can make products of various sizes.

Brushed suitable objects made from wood, namely:

• pine;
• oak;
• larch;
• ash;
• walnut.

Staining products "antique"

Popular wood aging method - painting furniture products. Usually painted benches, cabinets and tables. Original look all kinds of drawers and bookshelves. Advance preparation of wood takes place, as in the previously described methods. Faster processing is possible using a drill and the grinding wheel. When choosing paint, pick a blurred, indistinct color. Professional woodworkers recommend using paint used for interior painting of walls and ceilings.

Before staining products

1. Remove the hardware.
2. Removed sandpaper top coat layer.
3. Purify soap working area of ​​dirt and dust particles.
4. The treated surface is dried.
5. Gently lower the roller in the paint and paint the product.

It is recommended to start painting on an inconspicuous area to understand the whole process. We need to paint, forming a wide and smooth strokes, warning from sagging. Carefully paint the corners. The second layer of paint is applied only after the complete drying of the first layer. Objects begin to grow old after varnishing. Aging occurs as follows:

• taken small-caliber sandpaper;
• nazhdachkoy processed furniture parts subject to abrasion (corners protruding elements).

The process of erasure is controlled by the master.

Advantages of personally designed furniture products

Antique furniture, made with his own hands, has a number of advantages:

1. Saving money.
2. Creating a unique ancient headset.
3. The possibility of application of different methods of work.
4. Things keep the positive energy of the master.
5. Self-created object, perfectly fit into the room.

Creating furniture with his own hands, it is necessary to consider every detail of her appearance.

Design and construction of improvised antiques

Before you make antique furniture with his own hands, you need to prepare drawings and diagrams of desired products. It's worth noting that the product should understand, so you need to think carefully about the drawing and draw on paper step by step assembly of parts. Creating a table, cabinet or antique chairs with their hands, to reflect a design that will fit into the interior of the apartment.

How to wear out the table?

To make a table antique with your hands, you need to prepare drawings of the planned construction, tools, material, and start execution of the creative process.

necessary material

To create good-quality antique furniture is used:

• natural wood, from which it is created furniture;
• lacquer substance (mordant, lacquer);
• quality fittings (locks, gears, handles) suitable in style to what was intended product;
• decor items.

To prepare the necessary material and drawings of the desired product begins processing of wood products.

Required tools

Producing wooden table antique with your hands, you will need:

• variegated sandpaper;
• Brush on metal;
• hacksaw, I saw;
• sander with different attachments.

Making an antique table

Thoroughly prepared, sequentially perform the following steps.

1. Parse the table into separate parts or doing part of the product yourself.
   

   Remove the old countertop, carefully hooking evenly on all sides, so as not to damage the podstole

2. Treat with a file or on a tree nazhdachki surface elements of a product, removing old paint and varnish.
   

   We clean all the surfaces and remove the old coating

3. Learning prepared a sketch.
4. Getting manipulation brushed metal furniture along the fibers.
   

   Grind coating to precisely lay on the paint surface

5. The depth of the grooves is adjustable by means of repeated actions.
   

   On the flat parts using the grinder "hair iron"

   

   The slim profile and thread, machine to do nothing is not possible, you have to manually vyshkurivat every curve, every detail

6. Clear the wood dust particles.
   

   Remove dirt and dust accumulation

7. Covers the surface of the dark stain (excess stain removed soaked sponge).
   

   Morim aqueous stain because an array of walnut is very tight and requires deeper penetration

8. Cover product prepared varnish.
   

   Apply a finishing varnish on carefully prepared surface

9. We reserve the elements of the table to dry.
10. After drying, parts are assembled together by scheme (assembly occurs via the grooves, glue or screws furniture and hexagons).

When you have finished collecting antique table, made by hand from high-quality wood, you will be pleased with the result of the work. Such furniture decorate the interior of the living room or kitchen.

The final stage - decoration

Wooden furniture, antique, hand made, decorated with all kinds of decorative elements:

• acanthus;
• molding;
• patch elements;
• cartouche;
• etc. overlaid pattern.

Decorate his own aged chairs, beds, wardrobes, original look and fit into the interior of the home "country" style or "Provence". Handwritten antique furniture exhibits good taste and sense of style of the owner.

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