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Written by Wilson on 2025-01-27 at 03:07

I get most of the furniture I fix up for free, but this is a teak dining table by the Finnish firm Asko that I bought off Craigslist for my birthday last year.

Within an hour of owning it I destroyed all four legs by driving into a low garage door with the table strapped to my truck. Let's say I was disappointed. Meanwhile, it stayed in the garage for the better part of a year, directly beneath our apartment's shoddily plumbed bathroom. You can imagine where this is headed.

Anyway, I finally managed to swipe the still-intact legs off of another table that someone else destroyed, and adapted them to fit my special table. I sanded off some of the let's-just-call-it-water damage, did some spot staining, and polished the rest.

I won't say the hybrid is better than either of the tables that died to give it life, but I'm glad I didn't give up on this beauty. And maybe I now know how Homer Simpson felt when he carved his own chili spoon—from a bigger spoon!

[#]furniture #woodworking #midcenturymodern #suomi

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Written by Wilson on 2025-01-27 at 06:43

This is actually the better Homer Simpson chili spoon reference. An old estate tobacco pipe that was oversized for my taste, plus a bit bland and with a cracked shank and some unsightly fill. I took advantage of the beefy design to carve it down into something more interesting, and gave it a more lively oiled finish.

I lost this one when my bag was stolen out of my car last year [sad face].

[#]tobacciana #woodworking #freehand

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Written by Wilson on 2025-01-27 at 06:47

Here's the original before I intervened.

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Written by Zack Stern on 2025-01-27 at 04:27

@other_ghosts alt Simpsons:

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Written by Wilson on 2025-01-27 at 06:20

@zackstern touché

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Written by Anders Conbere on 2025-01-27 at 04:47

@other_ghosts Nice work! My wife and I restored an old oak table from around 1850 this year.

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Written by Wilson on 2025-01-27 at 06:22

@anders oh, heck yeah. Tell me about the crank... That extends the table?

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Written by Anders Conbere on 2025-01-27 at 14:51

@other_ghosts Good eye! The crank is the whole reason we have the table! It extends the table to fit a pair of leaves or retracts it to be about square. The hardware is how we could date the table which otherwise doesn’t have any makers marks.

I know nothing, but my wife if a cabinet maker / furniture maker, and swooped it up off buy nothing. It was in bad shape but she figured worst case she wanted the hardware :)

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Written by Wilson on 2025-01-27 at 17:38

@anders yeah, that's very cool. I used to have a Duncan Phyfe table with a fairly ingenious mechanism for folding the leaves into the table. I pity the fool who thinks Ikea invented clever space-saving furniture.

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Written by Cantdancesober on 2025-01-28 at 03:30

@other_ghosts such a good episode

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