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[InTheGarage]

Hi there and thanks for allowing me to join. I've just restored my first piece of furniture, a (possibly Edwardian) wash stand. When I purchased it, there was a gap between the doors and a gule mark the length of one door, which I take is an indication there was a strip of wood which overlapped the two doors. Does anyone know where I can buy half a metre of, say, 30mm wide, 3mm or 4mm thick oak?. I don't have any workshop tools, but guess if I could only buy a piece that's wider, I could clamp it in a bench and use a chisel to 'cut' it to a rough size and then use an electric sander with very coarse sandpaper to get it to the right size.

Thanks!

 

[Bingy man]

You can get what’s called strip wood from most big diy stores - wickes bnq etc Some also sell strips of hardwood. EBay also have multiple sellers offering off cuts of all dimensions and species which are not that expensive. Worth a look .

 

[InTheGarage]

Thanks. All the big DIY chains only seem to sell pine, but I guess I might have something instore that isn't listed as stripwood. I'll pop to B&Q later. Also, I hadn't thought of Ebay!

 

[Spectric]

I'll pop to B&Q later

You would be better off looking for a proper timber yard, not a DIY or builders merchant.

 

[HOJ]

Does anyone know where I can buy half a metre of, say, 30mm wide, 3mm or 4mm thick oak?

Can you post a picture of the wash stand, there may be other elements of it that may be relevant to the profile/shape/size of the the piece you need.

I have a rack full of Oak ripping's, that I could further machine to size and send out, for the cost of P&P.

 

[bourbon]

Richard Burbridge is the Manufacturer you need. Just my luck I've just cut a piece of 30mm oak, 4mm thick chamfered on both edges That was 600mm long into some 400mm!

 

[InTheGarage]

Thanks guys. Here are some photos. The gap between the doors is 6mm and there is 8mm between the edge of the right-hand door and the handle, but the more I think about it, I'm not sure the doors are original:

• The doors don't seem to have been hung properly and a magnetic catch was used to keep the right-hand door shut and I would have thought the doors would have fitted perfectly and not needed a strip down to where they join.
• The door hadle doesn't match in material or style with the drawer handles
• The bolt set in the left-hand door fits into a piece of wood glued of nailed onto the cross-brace and is a bit of a rough job
• The doors don't seem to match the cabinet
• There is a hole inside either side of the cabinet just behind the doors which my partner wonders if they may have been for a curtain originally, which kind of makes sense, but I would have thought the rod would have been too thick

Does anyone have any thoughts on the points above?

Also, there is a finial either side of the splashback, but when we bought it, the right-hand one had been snapped off. I was hoping to pin or dowel it back on, but only the finial has a hole which doesn't seem to be dead centre. Would my best course of action be to glue it back on (sanding as necessary to get it to fit)?