Do you have Chinese wood carvings? Do you want to know if it is hand carved or computer carved (CNC)? This is the place for you.

You never really know what you will find when you start restoring Chinese antique furniture. In fact removing patina may even reveal a pleasant surprise!

One of the best things about controlling your own restorations is the ability to decide what the final result will look like. This end result can sometimes be as important as the original because the “customer’s customer” is going to be thinking about where and how the piece will fit into their home.

An overview of the complex and unique Chinese joinery techniques used in traditional Chinese carpentry and woodworking.

A look at how poor restoration caused the top of this customer’s old shanghai colonial style table to split, buckle and crack along with how we handle this type of Chinese antique furniture repair.

A look at carefully removing about 300 to 400 years of accumulated dirt on a late Ming table revealing the patina & original lacquer when the grime is removed.

拆开 (Chāi kāi) essentially means to “take apart” and people often don’t realize that when you restore a piece of Chinese antique furniture, usually in addition to carefully cleaning it, it also usually must be taken apart and entirely refitted back together. Since Chinese furniture rarely uses nails, and instead uses a complex system of pegs and joints, the item can be completely disassembled, with the pieces spread out over the workshop floor.

Lets step into the workshop & see first-hand the complete process of restoring antique Chinese window screens & Chinese antique wood panels. An experts guide to Chinese wood carving repairs:.

Is that a crack?!? About once a week, I am asked this question. Some of the times, its about furniture which has been purchased elsewhere.

Last week office staff went to an exhibition of new classical Chinese style furniture. There were not only furniture factories, but also those selling almost