Old to New Restorations

I love to take beaten, worn out, rusty antique and vintage tools and equipment and make them like new again. Where possible, I try to be sympathetic and use tools and techniques that fit the era of what I'm restoring. Rather than creating perfect museum pieces, I try and make things functional again so they can once again be used as they were meant to be.

Generally, I'm interested in restoring things that are really on the brink of being junk - things that are seized up, broken, unusable and too ugly to be decorative - I actually like old things to have some patina and a visible history, so I look for things that are beyond that!