A pleasure. One of my friends is a cabinetmaker/antiques restorer raised and trained in France and he gets some way-out-there stuff in for fixing, including the occasional vitrine. I learned a hell of a lot hanging around his shop.
The whole hunting with collector guns debate, as well as the one going on in another thread about restoring beat-up old guns for hunting use, reminds me of a job he had in there. It was a very nice mid-18th century-vintage sofa with a badly broken leg. Careful, probing questioning of the client revealed that the client and his lady friend broke it while ... um ... using it a bit too vigorously. When my friend and his crew got done with it, it was better and stronger than new, and none of the repairs showed. It was expensive, but the client could afford it and it was the right thing to do for the antique, too.
