12th January 2021
The couple who bought the mid century dresser collection arrived this evening to collect it.
They arrived with an open truck and a small car. It took a long time to get everything loaded and strapped down, made more difficult because the chap didn’t know how the strap worked. We gave them all our packaging materials to help protect all our hard work.
We had spent most of the day going over the pieces with a fine tooth-comb touching up and getting them ready.
In between, there was sanding and preparing the next dresser on the production line.
Kelli has been doing well on the small stuff she picks up from Goodwill. Today she sold a Japanese influenced tea and sake set.
I started working on the entertainment centre we picked up for free yesterday. I was able to look in more detail at the construction which was puzzling me. There were a number of timber parts that weren’t part of the original cabinet, and once I removed the shelves I discovered that the top part was not attached to the bottom part. The two sections were held together by a cluster of brad-nails, god I hate those. They are used to hold the whole bloody world together, and they are difficult to remove. After a lot of levering and prizing I managed to remove all the extra pieces and get it back to its original state, now the rebuilding starts.
Another Lifetime to go 