Professional Ceramic Restoration

Question: I was surfing for old treadle machine parts and found your site. Perhaps you would post my needs? Steel wheel 1-1/4 inch diameter and 3/8 inch thick. -- Peter Dale

(P.S. I'm a professional ceramic restorer and answer questions on the ceramic discussion panel at Antiquerestorers.Com . I am able to make duplicate parts (in hard resin) if a part is available to make a mold from.)

Answer: I'll post your request for sewing machine parts. I've discovered there are at least a gabillion people looking for information on old sewing machines, so hopefully someone with a wheel to spare will see it.
Thanks for the information about Antiquerestorers.com, and for the fascinating peek at what you do.

Read more about Peter:

I studied with a master restorer and took advanced instruction about 10 years ago. It was an attempt to learn something that both fascinated me and had the potential of a paying hobby. After my studies I realized I'd passed my instructor in newer technology and searched and found new, simpler methods and products to use.

If you scan through the list of contributors on the Ceramic restorers website , you 'lI find I've been a consistent contributor. I always hated to see beautiful objects thrown out because of damage. So this became a natural path for me. After retiring from my "day job" (high tech testing) my wife and I went into the antique and collectibles business for a number of years, in the mean time writing a book on restoration (about 90 percent completed) and I've taught several students restoration.

There are a number of procedures the average person can do to mend or otherwise protect or clean a "wounded''object. Now being retired from the work-a-day world, I try to devote more time helping others with problems and questions. Actually restoration is a "cold" process requiring no heat higher than your cooking oven. The restoration process of ceramics is very close to the procedure used to fill and color dents in autos with perhaps a smattering of dentistry.