Wood 1021 Wood Refinishing: Glazing Color

Glazing is another wood finishing technique, that, at it's base is simply applying a pigment on top of a finish. it can be used to create any number of effects in your wood be it a subtle color shift, to obscuring the grain, adding depth, or distressing furniture to make it look old. Glazing is an invaluable refinishers tool to match colors and a skill that our students learn that will serve them well in the field.

Wood 1026 Advanced Finishing: High Gloss Buffing

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words! In Advanced Finishing we look to get a very high quality product, you can see here that we mean High Gloss!

Wood 1032 Furniture Conservation: A Visit with Paul Storch, Senior Objects Conservator at the MN Historical Society

Senior Objects Conservator for the Minnesota Historical Society, Paul Storch, had a great conversation with students today about conservation. You can see Paul showing off one of the fine historical pieces that has come to him. This is a drum from the Civil War that had just come in for testing to establish what might need attention to preserve this historical piece. Here is another fine example of what it meas to involved in conservation.