Fabulous resource for anyone who owns items made of wood. I actually used it as my guide when stripping, dying and refinishing my husband's great-grandmother's dining room table. Trust him! ( )

Absolutely hilarious reading, and some useful tips too! If you don't look at 'antiques' with a jaundiced eye after reading this book--I have a bridge to sell you. ( )

being practical information for everybody about the care, repair, and refinishing of furniture, with easy to follow directions and tricks of the trade that use commonly available materials, all presented with the author's usual hilarious anecdotes in the Yankee manner and more about his infamous Uncle George

Buy it for its wisdom, read it for the fun. Grotz knows all about faking antiques, although he wonders why people bother. They build perfectly good reproductions and then toss them in a swamp for a few weeks to "age" them, just so they can put something over on the consumer. The book is full of great furniture care advice and fun. There's always a copy in some used booksale. Buy it - it's timeless.