Salvaging usable wood from an old table.

[duke]

Took apart and older family kitchen table.

 

[Mike G]

Nice haul. I'm picking up the odd freebie off Facebook marketplace these days, and storing the wood away. I seem to have hit a rich vein of rubberwood........which is OK. Rather better stuff than I was expecting. But there's plenty of pine and some oak out there to be had. I wouldn't take apart anything older than about 1950 or 60, though.

 

[Malc2098]

I managed to get an old mahogany door stile which can do a couple of instrument necks. I've also got some cherry kitchen cupboard doors which are dead straight and I've used for this and that. Might do a couple of ukulele bodies with them.

 

[duke]

This was the Maple kitchen table that I ate at as a youth. I tried to sell it on but anyone interested wanted me to bring it to them and get it into their home at no extra cost.

 

[Malc2098]

This was the Maple kitchen table that I ate at as a youth. I tried to sell it on but anyone interested wanted me to bring it to them and get it into their home at no extra cost.

Bloomin' cheek!

 

[Dr.Al]

On a related note, I got tempted in a junk shop again at the weekend (it happens a lot!) and bought a table top (for £14). The whereabouts of the rest of the table were unspecified!



830 × 660 × 20 mm. The fact it's a fairly round 20 mm (vs 19 mm / 3/4") makes me think it probably isn't especially old, but it seems very flat (and will hopefully stay that way!) and the wood looked quite nice. The label on it said "mahogany table top"; take that as you will.

It's got some sort of finish on it; it'll be interesting to see what it looks like with a little bit of plane attention. There are some marks on the bottom from where the base was attached; I haven't looked at it in enough detail to see how much of the wood will be wasted as a result of those.

Close-up:



I've no idea what I'll use it for, but given the table had long since been dismantled it felt like it would be a shame for it not to be used for something (and I'm easily tempted in junk shops).

 

[AndyT]

Here's something I made from a bit of an old mahogany table:



It's one leaf from a drop leaf table, cunningly converted into a useful shelf.

It would have been wrong to leave it in the skip where I found it!

 

[duke]

On a related note, I got tempted in a junk shop again at the weekend (it happens a lot!) and bought a table top (for £14). The whereabouts of the rest of the table were unspecified!

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830 × 660 × 20 mm. The fact it's a fairly round 20 mm (vs 19 mm / 3/4") makes me think it probably isn't especially old, but it seems very flat (and will hopefully stay that way!) and the wood looked quite nice. The label on it said "mahogany table top"; take that as you will.

It's got some sort of finish on it; it'll be interesting to see what it looks like with a little bit of plane attention. There are some marks on the bottom from where the base was attached; I haven't looked at it in enough detail to see how much of the wood will be wasted as a result of those.

Close-up:

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I've no idea what I'll use it for, but given the table had long since been dismantled it felt like it would be a shame for it not to be used for something (and I'm easily tempted in junk shops).

Looks quite useful Al.

 

[duke]

Here's something I made from a bit of an old mahogany table:

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It's one leaf from a drop leaf table, cunningly converted into a useful shelf.

It would have been wrong to leave it in the skip where I found it!

 

[duke]

Blends in nice with the tiles.