• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Sat at this table as a child, now have it.

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About 8 years ago my parents were downsizing, so gave me a solid Maple kitchen table which I sold on to my step daughters mother inlaw. She has passed away for 3 years now and no one wanted it. So full swing back to me. 1000004632.jpg1000004629.jpg
 
Spent about hour card scraping the top surface to get rid of stains, scratches etc. It is too small for us so I'll sell it on again.1000004626.jpg1000004630.jpg1000004631.jpg
 
Twenty years after I'd left home, I went back to visit my dad for the first time, and sat at our dining table for the first time as an adult. The same rung was loose on the back of the carver. The wedge was still loose in the tusk tenon. The top still wobbled on the pedestal. The loose bit which had always need re-gluing still needed re-gluing. It would have taken a few hours with a scraper to remove all the black paint from the 10 Windsor chairs.......

............so I'm glad I haven't ended up with our family dining table.
 
Ha, lol, what memories return. Luckily my parents are a 20 min. drive from us, I try to make a weekly visit. I'll post a pic of a pure 1950's vernacular cabinet that I got from them. Apparently it was made by the pastors wife because of a lack of cabinet space in the parsonage.
 
duke said:
It is not fine furniture but I love it.
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I love it because it's not fine furninture. It's just straightforward and honest.....made for a job, and doing that job perfectly well. I actually really like the subtle shape to the drawer front, and will store that away in case I can use the idea myself.
 
Mike G said:
I love it because it's not fine furninture. It's just straightforward and honest.....made for a job, and doing that job perfectly well. I actually really like the subtle shape to the drawer front, and will store that away in case I can use the idea myself.
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looks almost cricket battish
 
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