Salvaged timber

[Alan Smith]

Currently working on restoration/conversion of old furniture, specifically stripped pine cabinets. This is outside my usual area of work. I need some sticks of moulding to finish one job but need to match the greyish colouration of the stripped wood. Anyone know of places dealing in antique/salvaged timber (Sussex/Surrey are would be handy) or alternatively any good tips on achieving a good colour match by bleaching etc. new wood.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Dave Bamber]

I'm a complete novice to this woodworking, but I've got a lot of fairly nice wood from the wood store ( http://www.woodrecycling.org.uk/ ) in Brighton.

It's the place all that old furniture which goes to the tip- err I mean recycling centre ends up amongst other things. There's often a fair bit of 'aged' wood of different types there, so might be worth a look?

 

[Alan Smith]

Cheers Dave, that looks like just the sort of thing I need. Thanks, Alan