Beginning with an easy-to-use guide to identifying and dating your furniture, there follows a directory of all the tools, materials, and equipment you will need. The techniques cover surfaces and finishes, chairs, tables, and chests and cabinets. Whether you want to remove a scratch from a veneered tabletop or repair a broken cabriole leg, you will find all you need to know described in straightforward, no-nonsense language. Each of the four chapters ends with in-depth projects that put the individual techniques into context.