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Comments (1)Something in the construction of that table is not allowing the natural shrinkage of the wood to happen without the wood cracking. Wood naturally shrinks with age and when you fasten all four edges down either by glueing them into a frame or by fastening an apron around them....the wood will split. And pledge, oils, waxes...nothing, will prevent wood from shrinking....but what prevents it from splitting is the construction of the piece. Linda C...See MoreAntique Highboy Dresser value?
Comments (9)Photos of inside drawers, sides of drawers, bottom of the outside of the drawers, and inside of chest without the drawers would be helpful. please include side and back view of body of the dresser as well, if you can. Has it been stripped and re finished at some point? It is difficult to tell what kind of wood it is from the photo. On the underside of the body or the back, or on any of the drawers are there any markings? My first impression is that it is not super old, but photos can be very misleading. What do you know of its history?...See MoreCrack/Fissure in Brown Antique Granite
Comments (3)How did this turn out for you? I was just told my granite has a fissure that was made worse during transport. He is going to install and fill it on site, then polish it out. He said it will be fine when he's done, but told me I might not want to see it beforehand. I know myself, and he must have a good sense about me too, because he's right. I will fret if I see something "bad" upfront even if it will be fine in the end. He said my stone was a fragile one, and there are risks of this happening during transport, he always hopes it won't, but in this case it did. Could use some reassurance that this turned out ok for you in the end....See MorePlease Help! Is my antique brown granite cracked?
Comments (25)I have leathered antique brown granite. There is a lot of variation in colors, patterns and mine does have lines here and there. I have one long line in mine that seems to be natural to the stone because it is sort of meandering around. The line in your stone seems to meander around in the same way mine does. I can't feel it. Can you feel the crack/fissure in your antuque brown? Don't know if that means it's a crack or not, but maybe it does. Re regarding the suggestion to draw on it with a magic marker...i do have one area in my antue brown where there is a blob of white quartz that is just in a place that I don't like it. It's natural to the stone and there are several of these in my slabs. Just this one spot I don't like it, so I did draw on it with a magic marker, then gently wiped it off and now that area just blends in with the rest of the slab. So if you do find out that it isn't really a crack, that magic marker trick could work for you. Sounds a bit wacky, but it worked for me. But if it is an actual crack, of course that's a different situation....See MoreRelated Professionals
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