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Master restorer of wrecked wooden things
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Barnaby Quill once spent 73 days coaxing a single 18th-century Chippendale kneehole desk back from waterlogged ruin—not with epoxy or veneer patches, but by rehydrating its mahogany frame in a custom-built humidity chamber lined with spruce shavings and pine resin vapour, then hand-carving replacement dovetails from the same tree’s salvaged heartwood. He doesn’t ‘save’ wood; he negotiates with it—listening for grain tension, reading stress fractures like weather maps, and refusing to sand past the first layer of original patina unless the wood itself ‘asks for it’ (a phrase he means literally, based on how dust behaves under angled light). His workshop smells of linseed oil, fermented walnut stain, and damp cedar shavings—not because he likes the scent, but because those aromas tell him when cellulose is still breathing. He’ll turn down a commission if the piece has been stripped with lye or sealed with polyurethane; not out of dogma, but because those treatments sever the wood’s memory, and he restores memory first, structure second.
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