Cabinetmaking
 

Came across these slides, built this for my first wife also the table which has two removable inserts. Hope she has not sold them as Brian should inherit the lot. I used to be pretty good back then. Cabinet is all knotty/white pine table is hard maple.:)

Bought the chairs at Arnprior if memory serves.

Those are Beautiful Rob,I love Wood Products.I stop for curbed wood peices espescialy the vintage stuff.It is hard to find good wood craftsman any more the guy down the street from me does nice works.I have a shed full of all kinds and shapes of wood.

My wife once found a folding table of What I believe is Oak and with a hand painted mural on it when I get it out I will post a picture,I could not believe someone would throw it away.

Florence had this gatelag table with 24 inch wide drop down tops. The woden hinges were broken so someone put barn hinges on it.Cherry

She also had six balloon back chiars which had been painted green at one time. Well I have redone all the chairs and one wood hinge in white ash and started on the other. Hope I can finish it before arthritis gets too bad.

thats nice,what kind of wood is that floor?

Great work, Rob!

John

Very nice indeed Rob!

Leider habe ich zwei linke Hände, as we say in German language, what means - expressing clumsiness: Unfortunately I got two left hands!

Great! Congratulations Rob!

Nice work!

It's Bruce engineered flooring. That's what they call a floating floor because it is laid over concrete and each board is glued to the next one but not to the concrete. I laid it myself in the new 455 sq ft playroom.

The strange part was that I did build the cabinet for her, yet she criticized everything I did.

Yea that is a woman thing my Wife Is the same way,But deep down they are proud as pie that honey built it.let someone else try and criticise it,they will get a earfull I bet you.

When they criticize everything it's just a 'dominance instinct' running amok. Don't look for logic.

No it was not the cabinet, it was everything, before I could get halfway through any topic it came. Then there was thr jelousy, an emotion I cannot even understand. So I got out before we destroyed each other.

Smart move,

Nice work!

I made cabinets for a while, but commercial particleboard/formica junk, 100+ a day.

Pete

None of that thank you. I made this one all from my own head and there is enough wood left for another one.:)

This is the table the wooden hinges are for.

now that has a deep hue to it almost like a tiger eye that is sooo deep and beautiful.you know I think I just found I have a atraction to wood.I have some speakers that have a dark teak look and they are satin mooth and multideminsenal.maybe that is why I am such a speaker junkie,I like the cabinents as much as the sound.

As near as I can tell it is Cherry and each leaf is a single piece. The set (table and six chairs) is not factory made because there are subtle differences in the chairs. I guess that it was made by some craftsman for his wife, It is at least 200 years old. They tell you not to refinish antiques but as somebody had already done that (and done a half-assed job of it) I went ahead with the chairs and will also do the table. Talking to a local antique dealer whe we told him we had six baloon back chairs he almost drooled. Florence was offered $4000 for the set some years back. Not for sale.

Here is an after (left) and before (right) pair of chaires.