I’ve made some insignificant development with the claw foot desk, stripping down 1 of the two mahogany table tops and was relieved that I was capable to get rid of 100 years of scratches, worn down original complete as effectively as a amount of ring marks from where the very same plates and mugs wherever used on it. The conserving grace in all that was the veneer becoming about two times as thick as the things you find now-a-times which is generally 1/42nd of an inch. This things was shut to a 16th or 24th” thick and was hardly ever refinished or seriously seemed following…a guess on my component.
So after the stripping and sanding was accomplished and correctly cleaned up for the 1st coat of tung oil, which it drank up like a person who was missing in the desert without h2o! But, guy! That tung oil truly introduced a ton of it back to everyday living or at least searching way significantly less unhappy and unwell as when I initial rescued it.
Also, the Gibbard mirror body seemed to be these types of a nice suit to the width of the desk, that I just experienced to include it in this image and then make use of the house in which the mirror would usually be showing my mug obscured by a digicam , and alternatively flew in an additional comic e-book-like rendition of the Watertown slide.
You will find also a drawer that’s been positioned under the table, and that drawer came from that other Television set cabinet that was holding the Gibbard enterprise out there in the provider yard. I bought some decent reduce sq. doorway fronts from it much too. The entrance of that drawer looks to be walnut with a good hardwood drawer frame behind it. Appears to be to be oak with a spruce bottom plate. Moreover the width and depth of it is was in close proximity to best match to be put in down there, (at some point) and that will give the claw foot a bit more flexibility for more storage and these.
So that kind of explains in an odd way, the title of this picture, since numerous components from a variety of pieces are having a no cost shotgun marriage ceremony, thanks to Jeff, the match-maker! lol
Cheers! 🙂
Posted by jeffpeletz@startmail.com on 2020-09-27 01:40:17
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