Possible Clues:

• A hunky old cabinet-maker?
• Proprietary furniture stripper?
• Thomas __, 18th-century furniture maker
• Furniture maker's quiet demise amidst food and drink
• Creator of sticks found damage to stake of wood around tip
• Type of furniture stripper
• Such furniture slightly damaged by beer stain finally seeping in
• One used to stripping furniture, perhaps
• Like some furniture with bit of damage - faded around border
• Thomas —, eighteenth century English furniture-maker