The furniture doctor

For thousands of amateurs and professionals seeking ways to care for, repair, or refinish furniture, this new edition of The Furniture Doctor is just what the "doctor" ordered. Twenty years after publishing what has become just about the best-known book in the field, George Crotz, the furniture doctor himself, decided to "refinish" his own book. The result in this revised, expanded editions, enhancing The Furniture Doctor's already enormous popularity and usefulness.

And there are lots of new tips and techniques the doctor has discovered over the years and have he passes them on, a down-to-earth guide to hand and power tools used in working on old furniture: an illustrated (by the doctor's own hand) and greatly enlarged catalog of furniture styles through the ages to cite part of but one entry. "Chippendale furniture is rococo Queen Anne's, techniques for caning: George's approaches pulled opinions on the new super hard finishes and the new wave of commercial refinishing kits (with, instructions for making your own) and an up-to-date "Yellow Pages" section listing sources for supplies.