Welcome to the Cottack Workshop 2025 - upcoming restorations and antique furniture repairs

Vintage Hepplewhite-style carver chair repair and restoration

Restoring a Victorian Gate Leg Table: Oil-Based vs. Water-Based Stain?

Spice Cabinet from 1665! Restoration and repair of this old antique brought back to life

Vintage Chisel Restoration

John Lewis contemporary oak dining chair furniture repair

Vintage Writing Slope restoration and leather replacement

Vintage rolltop desk repair and sympathetic restoration

Lurk which converts to two ski poles in Ash and Elm, with hidden hipflasks

Victorian / Edwardian vintage dentist cabinet resotoration and repair. Dust, mould and a Bengal cat.

Secret Lurk (long single pole used by telemark skiiers instead of 2 ski poles) ash and walnut

350-yr-old wainscot chair conservation and restoration, part 2. Not Jacobean more likely Charles II

Ancient oak chair from the 1600s! Pet chewed, 400 years old, restoration and repair

Antique English nursery chair repair & restoration. Late Edwardian or WW2 Edwin Atkins with a twist

Rusty ball peen hammer restored and transformed to celtic beauty! Walnut in Ash handle

50th Anniversary Garden Bench needs care and attention after 15 years in Scottish weather!

5 vintage tool restorations with Scottish history. Chisel, marking guage, two Stanley planes and box

Vintage oak rocking footrest - repair and restoration from a horrendous previous repair.

Singer Treadle Table restoration and refinish

1890's oak humidor in the form of a minature safe and an oak desk tidy restored

Is this a famous Scottish walking stick? Restoration, repair and research!

Hot coffee, port wine and scratches on 5 antique restoration finishes to see which are best?

Celtic Knot Rolling Pin that cost me $$$ thousands.

Repaired! Very Expensive Ligne Rosset Flax Chair

1930s Neindorf semi grand piano keyboard flipped into a coffee table in glass and oak

Edwardian revolving bookcase - heirloom damaged in transit - restored and repaired

1 Year of Furniture Restoration, Furniture Repair and Projects. Happy Birthday Cottack!

Vintage furniture restortation, repair and new legs for Victorian/Edwardian parquetry octagon table

Oak AIR RAID table restoration. 1930's table built by Grandfather used as WWII shelter in Glasgow

Vintage Singer 66k 1935 treadle sewing machine restoration and repair

Savanarola Dragon chair restoration and major repair

Scrabble tile holders in 8 varieties of wood - elm, fir, shesham, pear, spalted beech and more.

Rotating Scrabble board from woodwork project leftovers and reused materials

Candle holders - gifts from driftwood! And a sneak preview of the next restoration

Antique Scottish chair with woodworm restoration and repair. Jump to 2:59 to skip the chat!

Part 2 of Angus Menstrie Edwardian Roller Top desk restoration, repair and upgrade

Angus of Menstrie Edwardian Roller Top desk - full restoration, repair and upgrade.

Tote-em. A sustainable community carbon retention project during COP26 using driftwood and firewood

Mirror cutting to repair two mirror trays

Turning boxes from recovered local Scottish sycamore

Furniture restoration and modification - nested tables converted to a single table and shelf.

Furniture restoration versus furniture repair - slightly more extreme examples

The Parrot Shelf Part 2

The Parrot Shelf

Scots Ogee Lum Chest restoration and repair

Semi grand Piano flipped to Bookshelves - cherished heirloom from Harrods reimagined