Illustrated details for furniture restoration involving use of stick shellac filler, replacing broken spindles or stretchers without spreading sound joints, steaming dents in raw wood, plugging big holes, making veneer patches and shims, using mirrors for accurate boring, filling gaps with plugs, the ideal stencil, using 9H mason's pencil to mark fine joinery, and staining with cloth dyes which offer a great variety of color. -- AATA