5th February 2020
I began to reassemble the extension leaves so that I could set them aside and get on with other parts. Unfortunately I damaged the hinge putting it all together, I blame the soft metal that the parts we made from, but now I had to find a replacement.
I first port of call was the Hafele catalogue.
I managed to find something that looked identical, the only difference this was made from German steel, and therefore indestructible. However the price, holy shit it was expensive, but I had no alternative.
I got on with stripping down and sanding the extension cradle. This was difficult and time consuming, the stain took differently to the many parts, but I couldn’t worry about it, black is not my favourite colour.
We had two ladies turn up to look at a dresser we got free a couple of weeks ago. We had decided to advertise it as a project piece, this is for those who might want to paint it themselves. We had quite a backlog, and couldn’t face the thought of painting this one.
The older lady loved the piece, but asked us to paint it for her, so the whole thing backfired, and we will have to paint it anyway.
Kelli had posted the little dresser on Marketplace and got someone on it straight away, that is due for delivery tomorrow.
I was able to get the tops for the side tables cleaned up and I machined a radius all round.
Kelli was able to finish painting the pedestals, so the race is on to finish.
Another Lifetime to go 