26th September 2022
Back to Plato’s with another three bags of unwanted clothes, this time the autumn collection. Kelli dropped me off at Harbour Freight a man’s tool shop where they sell low price tools. It’s the equivalent of IKEA for furniture. Some of it is rubbish and some is good, a lot of the power tools are good and reliable, and with the kind of work I do they are adequate.
I walked over to Plato’s to meet Kelli, that is when I noticed how chilly it was, by the time I got there I was numb with the cold.
There was plenty of things to do back at the garage, Kelli went off to collect a dresser from our storage facility whilst I stripped a top of its bubbled veneer. It was curious piece, apart from a terrible grain paint effect, the veneer had torn across the grain. Once I stripped everything off I could see how the substrate was constructed. There was a frame around the perimeter made from oak and beech, this allowed the oak veneer to be overlaid and blended into the frame. The middle was filled with pieces of beech, all glued together. My theory about the torn veneer must be down to expansion of these middle pieces,and an adhesive that wasn’t elastic enough to cope.
In the good old days it would have been cross banded, now I have to decide what to do with it.
Another Lifetime to go 