I did a little refinishing when I was a kid. My dad had an old wood Thompson. This is the first boat I have restored. I didn’t do any of the wood work, that’s the hard and expensive part. I did all the sanding and finishing, from the bungs on. The boat has 5200 glued bottom wood, so it doesn’t need soaking. We tried to make it as close to original as possible. -Bill Bischoff