Shop Supplies

Shop Supplies

1. Fine Tipped Marking Devices (Used to mark fabric before cutting. The type of marker used depends on the color and type of fabric, and the color and type of marker)
   1. Tailor's chalk
   2. Carpenter's pencils
   3. Fabric Marking Pencils
   4. Don't use felt tipped markers, such as Sharpies. The may bleed through the fabric with time, use, and cleaning.
2. Masking Tape: apply to the back of fabrics and mark clien't name or furniture part ID on it.
3. Antiseptic spray
4. Bandaids: In upholstery, there are numerous things to give you tiny knicks or cuts. Use a bandage on ALL cuts and knicks, no matter how small. Even the tiniest cut can bleed a drop of blood that can make have redo a large part of your furniture project. The bandaid keeps you from bleeding on the fabric.
5. First Aid Kit: You get to figure this one out.
6. Fine steel wool
7. Old English Scratch Cover Polish
8. Carpenter's yellow wood glue
9. Single edge razor blades
10. Button Molds (sizes 22, 30, 36, 45, 60)
11. Disinfectant spray: used to kill bugs and ... inside the old furniture.
12. Painter's Plastic, roll of 9' wide X 400 ft . Good for:
    1. Covering up stuff, to shield from overspray when you use foam glue.
    2. Also good for laying over a dirty table when you want to keep stuff clean.
    3. Good for wrapping finished jobs.
    4. Can also use as a substitute plastic for vacuum stuffing cushions.
13. Flooring Paper: roll of about 35" wide: good to make patterns (or any type of wide paper might also work, butcher paper, maybe newsprint paper.)