Wood 'n' Soul

Well, the first picture shows a rarity in my shop - metal drawer slides. These are nice ones, they just seem a bit out of place to me. I much prefer hand made wooden slides and my guess is that they will last longer. But the client wanted one drawer duplicated - and it came with metal slides. So... we are doing metal slides. It will be delivered Monday or Tuesday.

The next image shows a broken Windsor style chair. It is #1 one of 4, plus a table to be refinished and repaired. I went to see this very nice lady, expecting to tell her to buy new stuff and, she has this really nice chair, plus three more in not quite as needing of repairs and, a terrific table made of 2’ think Alder it seems. Also she has several nice and unique antiques, including some children’s furniture such as a miniature roll top desk from France and, a beautiful chest of drawers with horizontal book-matched drawers with the teeniest pin-tails I’ve ever seen - WAY cool!

I sanded a bit on the chair to see how it would go and make sure the wood is oak - and it is - the chair is completely made of red oak it appears. Lots ‘o’ work on this one - just punching the broken stubs of legs out took some serious elbow grease - and a pretty good sized hammer. It will be a fun project to follow!