Stickley Furniture Gustav Harden Dressing Polish Arts & Crafts Antiques restore

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I just wanted to add this latest feedback from a customer:
"I first was recommended this stuff in NYC when I bought my Morris chair in 1995. Used it for 12 years. Fast forward to 2020 and got the chair back after divorce and storage snafus. I have a lot of Stickley stuff; this product is great; they call it “dressing” not “polish”. That is true, it won’t leave your wood furniture looking like a glazed donut. However, it will leave it with a deep (and I cringe to use the next word because it is over-used) LUSTER. It’s not cheap but you will find you will need to polish your wood furniture less often; just dust. Highly recommended."   JB Connecticut
We
just made another YOU TUBE video showing how to clean your kitchen cabinets.  It lasts for a few minutes, so grab a beverage and be amused:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xcx6MLsUmI&t=8s
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My 35-year-old daughter told me that no one would read this.
I hope to prove her wrong.
You may have found this listing while searching for Stickley furniture and other Arts and Crafts furniture made in the early 1900s.
You’re searching EBAY for furniture made over a hundred years ago and you want the finishes to last another 100 years.
Arts and Crafts furniture manufacturers are actually currently telling their customers to use a damp cloth
to keep the finish looking great.
And you know that can’t be right.
A damp rag is great for wiping up spilled soup … alas,
not so good for the furniture’s finish.
A few months ago I found a signed Gustav Stickley child's chair on EBAY that looked terrible!  People passed on it. It was a bargain, and I bought it because I knew that our dressing would bring out the finish
that was still there
.
If you look at the pictures, you see the before and after views of the "bargain chair." The finish was still there and the dressing brought it back out. Not refinished, just TLC from The Craftsman Furniture Dressing.
To demonstrate how well this dressing works on something that is 110-years old (and has been neglected,) we made two “You Tube” videos as I worked on the chair.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLna8_taCbKyhnXyWngB_PRI4xNwriQ_1b
We’ve sold thousands of cans
to antique dealers, restorers, curators and auction houses for
40+ years!
Yes, and people just like you!
Our best and favorite customers over the years have been the people who originally bought the polish when we refinished a piece of their furniture--and then came in a couple times a year to buy another can--each time saying that
they wouldn't use anything
else on their furniture or cabinets.
Speaking of cabinets--if you haven't already watched it, take a few minutes, grab a beverage-- and watch the "tutorial" I just did on cleaning kitchen cabinets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xcx6MLsUmI&t=3s
Your furniture’s finish eventually starts to break down with daily use, sunlight, soup wiped up with a wet cloth, forced air heat, etc.
The dressing
is not a polish.
It’s based on
a formulation that’s over 120 years old--the time frame of the Arts & Crafts movement—and created by finishers—Craftsmen.  The dressing removes the hand oils, fingerprints, trapped dust, the dirt of time, at the same time revealing the colors and feeding the finish. There’s no wax and certainly no silicone! (It does not make your furniture shiny!)
50 years ago, I rescued Gustav Stickley’s business papers and the glass photo negatives from his catalog illustrations.  All of this ended up at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.   Forty years ago, The Craftsman philosophy inspired me to register The Craftsman™ name and trademark.
If you are not familiar with The Craftsman™ and our trademark (a joiner’s compass enclosing the motto Als ik Kan, it’s on each can of our dressing.
For 50 years we repaired and restored the furniture of Gustav Stickley, L&J.G. Stickley, Stickley Bros., Limbert, Harden, J.M. Young and countless others in our shop in Eastwood, NY--making our own colors to match--as well as making custom furniture.
In the over 50 years I've been involved with furniture, I’ve never seen anything that cleans and feeds furniture finishes as well as our dressing.
Directions
Apply sparingly in a well ventilated area.
1)
Dust the surface to be polished.
2)
Apply a small amount of polish to soft, lint-free cloth.
3)
Rub surface with the grain using moderate pressure.
4)
Wait 5 minutes
5)
With a clean, soft 100% cotton cloth wipe the surface dry, removing all surplus dressing.
Wipe with the grain
6)
For a piece that has been ignored for years (and you might want to show it at Grove Park), a bit more liberal use of the dressing will reap dividends, as shown in our videos.
I’ve been asked repeatedly: “Why don’t you sell The Craftsman Furniture Dressing on-line?”  My response has been: “People can find it on our website.  My wife suggested that over the last 30 years perhaps not everyone has looked at the website.
I was shocked!!
For more information about the dressing (polish) and
The Craftsman™
, please visit our website:
TheCraftsman.com
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Share with a friend!
Ron Cosser
The Craftsman
Furniture Polish
I’ve
never
had any affiliation with Audi, Stickley & Co.