Admiral's Cabinet - Preserve, Conserve, or Restore?

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Originally Posted by RitchieMars

Hm, I'm considering all of these options and one thing that did stick out to me was these photofinish pieces. I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it is because where it's chipped, I can see a sort of "tear" with plain wood behind it. I'd rather not replace any of this unless I absolutely have to.

I've read in this forum and others where people used artist's oil? paints to match the color and approx match the wood grain pattern of the paper photofinish, to fill in the damaged spots. Of course, the oil paint or whatever you use needs to be compatible with the lacquer you will use.

Some people have created new photofinish by printing it out from a computer printer, and using photoshop to edit it. Of course you'd need stable printer ink, or maybe use brown colored paper and a B&W laser printer. Of course it needs to be stable against UV and whatever you finish it with (lacquer, poly or shellac).