[PLUG-TALK] Woodworking?

[Denis Heidtmann]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> wrote:

>
> My sister has been borrowing a table of mine for the last 4 years, for
> use as a desk austensibly while she was in nursing school.  She
> graduated in June and has her first real-ish nursing job and I'm
> trying to pry the table back out of her (truth be told, I was never
> that thrilled to have loaned it, and anyway, "times up!").  She is
> interested in finding a replacement.  Finding a replacement might
> speed up getting mine back.
>
> The table was made from an old solid-core door, with a mahogany venir
> surface.  I had some hardwood (I don't remember what, something dark
> reddish) added as trim all the way around and the edges eased with a
> router, and the whole thing refinished and put on some of those
> tubular legs, like these:
>
>  http://www.kitchensource.com/table-bases/bkt-ctb2001.htm
>
> (you screw in a bracket to the table bottom, slide the tube on, and
> then tighten up an allen screw to make a friction fit on the tube)
>
> It looks awesome.  She thinks it is more important for her to look at
> nice things than it is for me to look at nice things.  She made no
> investment in this table, other than "gimme-gimme-gimme", which to me
> seems kind of not very substantial.  Anyway, I am ready to have it
> back and the difference of opinion over the alacrity with which its
> return should be accomplished has become "an Obstacle to Peace" in the
> family.
>
> Does anyone know someone in town who could do a similar door->table
> conversion along these lines for a reasonable amount of money?
> Particle board is not allowed.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
> Russell Senior         ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.''
> seniorr at aracnet.com


I do not know anybody who might want to do the carpentry, but I might know
someone in the Repo business.

-Denis
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