When you restore windows for a living you constantly find yourself reinventing the wheel. So many of the techniques that I am sure were common 50, 75 and 100 years ago are simply no longer common knowledge. Yesterday, I found myself on a wheel that my father taught me about 35 years ago. I doubt he invented this particular wheel but I was amazed then, just as I was amazed yesterday.My dad was a lot of things, relevant to this topic he was: [a] a PhD chemist and [b] a bit eccent [...]
