10-25-2019, 10:27 AM
You're too kind Rick. I have built and created plenty of furniture and wooden objects over the years but, to date, no one has ever accused me of being a wood worker. I do have the good fortune of having quite a few home grown materials available to me in Kansas as well as a 2.5" band saw with a 18" throat. My Uncle Don was a cuckoo clock maker and I ended up with some of his tools.
While I'm feeling expansive - here's another "wooden object" story that I'd like to share. The picture here is of a 54" round oak table with the leaves in it. It's surrounded by 6 solid oak chairs that came with the table.
Nothing much special about the table - oak veneer and no claw feet. The table's history is special to me though. We had an elderly farm couple for neighbors who were selling out and moving to town. This all occurred when I was about age twenty. The table and chairs had been presented to them by her parents as a wedding gift in the very early 1900's. They sold the table and chairs to me and the set resided in two of my homes in Kansas and then in Arizona. It fell out of my wife's decorating scheme about ten years ago so all went back to Kansas where it was "on loan" to one of my nephews for his young family's use. My youngest daughter and her husband recently moved to Phoenix and bought a house so, now, back to Arizona it goes.
The picture was taken in my shop in Kansas just a few weeks ago as it was being readied for transport. It currently resides in my daughter's dining room here in Scottsdale. So, how many meals have been shared around this table by how many people these past 100+ years? We can put all the plastic bottles and glass jars we want in our special little garbage receptacles but the story behind this table is what I call recycling.
While I'm feeling expansive - here's another "wooden object" story that I'd like to share. The picture here is of a 54" round oak table with the leaves in it. It's surrounded by 6 solid oak chairs that came with the table.
Nothing much special about the table - oak veneer and no claw feet. The table's history is special to me though. We had an elderly farm couple for neighbors who were selling out and moving to town. This all occurred when I was about age twenty. The table and chairs had been presented to them by her parents as a wedding gift in the very early 1900's. They sold the table and chairs to me and the set resided in two of my homes in Kansas and then in Arizona. It fell out of my wife's decorating scheme about ten years ago so all went back to Kansas where it was "on loan" to one of my nephews for his young family's use. My youngest daughter and her husband recently moved to Phoenix and bought a house so, now, back to Arizona it goes.
The picture was taken in my shop in Kansas just a few weeks ago as it was being readied for transport. It currently resides in my daughter's dining room here in Scottsdale. So, how many meals have been shared around this table by how many people these past 100+ years? We can put all the plastic bottles and glass jars we want in our special little garbage receptacles but the story behind this table is what I call recycling.