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I love my job now, but I have learned the dark side of antique sales being a refinisher.
First off, half of the antiques are fakes. You can't tell until someone brings a piece back to be fixed. When I cut into the wood to install peg supports, half of the time I can see where the wood was cut with a modern blade or the internal structure was made from a processed wood pulp with antique veneer glued around it.
Also the markup on antiques is about 1000%, lawl. Our broker collects the stuff in Europe for 100 euros and we are selling it $5,000 - $30,000 to all of the rich fucks in Springhill.
If you really really know what you are doing, antiques are beautiful and a great way to give you place some style and class. but, if you don't know what you are doing, you will get burned so bad. So, be careful.
What are some deep dark secrets about your profession?
First off, half of the antiques are fakes. You can't tell until someone brings a piece back to be fixed. When I cut into the wood to install peg supports, half of the time I can see where the wood was cut with a modern blade or the internal structure was made from a processed wood pulp with antique veneer glued around it.
Also the markup on antiques is about 1000%, lawl. Our broker collects the stuff in Europe for 100 euros and we are selling it $5,000 - $30,000 to all of the rich fucks in Springhill.
If you really really know what you are doing, antiques are beautiful and a great way to give you place some style and class. but, if you don't know what you are doing, you will get burned so bad. So, be careful.
What are some deep dark secrets about your profession?