The table for $25...

Interesting leg placement.
I expect that when you do as good a job as you did on old Grandma’s table this will be a classic.

Have fun.

Lee

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

oh yes.. and for $25

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Nice looking table (with character) for $25 . I am looking forward to the “after” post.

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever... - Keats

Hi:

I do a lot of foundling furniture restorations, refurbs and repurposing.

Currently, I’m doing an old campagin-style butler table made from mahogany.
The tray top is oval and detaches from the base of four legs.
It has fold-up side handle wings with heavy brass hinges.

Two of the legs on the original stand were broken.
I decided to replace all of the legs with bark-on maple saplings that have been dyed with walnut husk dye, cured with diluted tung oil, then varnished with a tung oil/varnish mixture.

I also made a second base by refinishing an old cross-legged tray stand made from poplar.
I stripped the tray stand, dyed it a reddish-brown (walnut husk with aniline red), then used a red mahogany oil stain.
I sealed it with shellac (Zinsser SealCoat), then finished it with my tung oil/varnish mixture – hand rubbed.

My wife chose the cross-legged tray stand over the rustic stand, so I’ll repurpose the rusticified original stand with a barnwood top and make it in to a coffee table.

BTW, the butler table was purchased at a thrift store for $10 USD.

-- Randy (P), rustic wood crafts, Morning View, Kentucky

what a fantastic find.

As always valdas, I’m dying to see your After photos!

It looks very nice what purpose did the table have it looks as though it was designed with a purpose in mind any ideas?? regards Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease