The show me your Witco thread. - Collecting Tiki

S SilverLine Member Kansas City Joined: Mar 02, 2004 Posts: 637	S SilverLine Posted posted on Fri, Aug 19, 2011 6:56 AM I do a lot of work in historic preservation (buildings mostly) and although this is a bar and not a building some of the same principles apply. First, I wouldn't do anything that can't be un-done, like sanding and refinishing. If you put new fabric on it, save the original. Don't try to "fix" anything you can't reverse. The chips and scratches are part of it's history. If you need to do something drastic to save/stabilize it, that's different. But for the cosmetics . . I'd just clean it. Don't be that guy the Antiques Roadshow appraisers curse 50 years from now. When people say to me "I can do (whatever modification they're considering), it's not historic." I say, "You do that, and it never will be."

I do a lot of work in historic preservation (buildings mostly) and although this is a bar and not a building some of the same principles apply. First, I wouldn't do anything that can't be un-done, like sanding and refinishing. If you put new fabric on it, save the original. Don't try to "fix" anything you can't reverse. The chips and scratches are part of it's history. If you need to do something drastic to save/stabilize it, that's different. But for the cosmetics . . I'd just clean it. Don't be that guy the Antiques Roadshow appraisers curse 50 years from now.

When people say to me "I can do (whatever modification they're considering), it's not historic." I say, "You do that, and it never will be."

Post #603169 by SilverLine on Fri, Aug 19, 2011 6:56 AM