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So, sorry for the poor pics, more to come. Today we made a trip to my wife's grandparents farm. We loaded up her great-great-grandpa's workbench and hardware cabinet. They've been sitting in her Grandpa's barn, which has flooded a few times, but both still in decent shape.
After prohibition, her G-G-Grandpa went into furniture making and production of bank teller windows. He made a decent living, but nothing like they had done pre-prohibition.
The hardware cabinet is mostly made from pine and re-claimed materials. The back and drawer bottoms are mostly from re-claimed crating material. The smaller drawers are mostly fronts and backs from wood, then sheet metal bent for the drawer bodies, attached to the fronts and backs with tacks.
The bench has been used by her grandpa to cut/thread pipe on for years now, so it's got a layer of cutting oil covering the top. My plan is to power wash the bench base and top and see where we stand. I suspect I'll need to remove a 1/4" or so of it and maybe laminate some new wood on to thicken it up. The feet have sat in the mud for 50 years on the floor and have some dry-rot. However, the top does have a working vise and dog holes still.
Before I will unload from the trailer I need to do some fumigation as there was a brown recluse condo living in that hardware cabinet. I killed at least 20 just pulling drawers out and another 2 that had managed to still cling on after a 100 miles into the trip home, while getting gas. I'm feeling that scorpions and brown recluses share a common bond in annoying their victims.
Sadly the cabinet is a one-piece unit, but luckily for me the nd neighbor called in a favor to feed his dog as he was out of town for the Turkey day festival, so I too shall be calling in a favor to help me get this beast off the trailer.
In that last pic is the hardware cabinet. Her uncle was helping me load, he's about 6'-4", the cabinet is about 6' tall.
After prohibition, her G-G-Grandpa went into furniture making and production of bank teller windows. He made a decent living, but nothing like they had done pre-prohibition.
The hardware cabinet is mostly made from pine and re-claimed materials. The back and drawer bottoms are mostly from re-claimed crating material. The smaller drawers are mostly fronts and backs from wood, then sheet metal bent for the drawer bodies, attached to the fronts and backs with tacks.
The bench has been used by her grandpa to cut/thread pipe on for years now, so it's got a layer of cutting oil covering the top. My plan is to power wash the bench base and top and see where we stand. I suspect I'll need to remove a 1/4" or so of it and maybe laminate some new wood on to thicken it up. The feet have sat in the mud for 50 years on the floor and have some dry-rot. However, the top does have a working vise and dog holes still.
Before I will unload from the trailer I need to do some fumigation as there was a brown recluse condo living in that hardware cabinet. I killed at least 20 just pulling drawers out and another 2 that had managed to still cling on after a 100 miles into the trip home, while getting gas. I'm feeling that scorpions and brown recluses share a common bond in annoying their victims.
Sadly the cabinet is a one-piece unit, but luckily for me the nd neighbor called in a favor to feed his dog as he was out of town for the Turkey day festival, so I too shall be calling in a favor to help me get this beast off the trailer.
In that last pic is the hardware cabinet. Her uncle was helping me load, he's about 6'-4", the cabinet is about 6' tall.
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