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This was a commission from a local antiques boutique in a nearby tourist town. He usually took his truck and fifth wheel trailer down into New York and Pennsylvania to buy antiques and reproductions from select wholesalers. It took me a long time to gain the man’s confidence but he finally gave me an order. A tall one too.
He flipped open a large coffe table book with Canadian heritage furniture, pointed to this table and said “I want that – how much?”
The table has six drawers and I spun the legs on a homemade lathe. The top is 4 booards of local pine air dried for four years. I planed the 2 inch stock down to 1 1/4 inch and made breadboard ends and a skirt to peg it on to the base. I turned the pegs in my drill press.
He actually wanted only 3 boards for the top but I couldn’t get them in the thickness he wanted. There were a number of wormholes in the boards which I filled with an exterior wood filler and drew knots around them. About 20 % of the knots on the top are created. He wanted to custom make his own stain for the top.
The base was rubbed through with lacquer thinner instead of sanding, to reveal the barn red through the black acrylic, since he didn’t want any wood showing. I thought that the table was destined for his store but it ended up replacing the antique tavern table from his dining room.
He also purchased the 150 year old blaket box in the background, a piece I had stripped years of fabric off to reveal 18” pine boards which I restored.
-- Phil Brown, Ontario
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Diane
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#1 posted 2190 days ago
Just beautiful, I love the large size of the tabletop to the size of the rest of the
piece, it makes it so inviting to want to sit at it.
Diane
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#2 posted 2189 days ago
Excellent work, Phil..I love the size, too
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Karson
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#3 posted 2189 days ago
Excellent piece Phil. Nice job.
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#4 posted 2189 days ago
very cool!!! your work is always awesome…if he hasnt gained your “trust’ he is missing out…good work…how long did it take you to make this?
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Phil Brown
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#5 posted 2189 days ago
Matt, it took me one week, about 60 hours. I’d like to see how he stained the top, what it looks like now. He was very picky but very knowledgeable about the antiques industry.
-- Phil Brown, Ontario
MsDebbieP
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#6 posted 2189 days ago
that’s awesome. Congrats on the commission
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mot
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#7 posted 2189 days ago
Phil, you’re stuff is great. Thanks for posting another one!
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#8 posted 2188 days ago
Great looking legs. Got a picture of your homemade lathe?
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Phil Brown
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#9 posted 2188 days ago
Mark, do you really want to see it? Its a couple of pieces of scrap wood, an electric drill at one end and a lazy susan bearing at the other. I tossed it in the corner as I was just given a lathe by a couple I helped out recently who were having trouble with their utilities breaking down and need some quick cash to fix the problem. I turned them on to an antiques dealer who came and bought a bunch of the old stuff in their farmhouse. They couldn’t believe what he paid them for their 9 1/2 foot original harvest table and a few other items.
-- Phil Brown, Ontario
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#10 posted 2188 days ago
Another nice one Phil. Nice work on the legs. jockmike
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