I have just been given a standard sized (8 or so seater) table. The wood
mostly is solid Tasmanian Oak. Tassie Oak is what many pieces of 'fine'
Aussie furniture was (and some still are) made from. I say 'mostly' as some
of the parts under the table are of cheap pine and to make it worse the
construction is crude and artless - screws everywhere.The top is made of
three solid boards with beautiful grain.
I don't really need a table - I have two too many now! So what shall I do
with it, dismantle it and wait for the muse to strike? Or clean it up and
sell it?

Mekon

"Mekon" wrote in message
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I have just been given a standard sized (8 or so seater) table. The wood
mostly is solid Tasmanian Oak. Tassie Oak is what many pieces of 'fine'
Aussie furniture was (and some still are) made from. I say 'mostly' as
some
of the parts under the table are of cheap pine and to make it worse the
construction is crude and artless - screws everywhere.The top is made of
three solid boards with beautiful grain.
I don't really need a table - I have two too many now! So what shall I do
with it, dismantle it and wait for the muse to strike? Or clean it up and
sell it?

Assuming you can't sell it as a table, I would hold onto it as wood.
But if you sell it as lumber, don't clean it up. For all you know, the
buyer wants to do something entirely different with the wood and your
cleaning has ruined it for him.

You already know the answer...lol, pull her apart, bin the screws, place
timber in a corner, and wait. The word will come as to the purpose.

O, and Happy New Year,

Mike


"Mekon" wrote in message
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I have just been given a standard sized (8 or so seater) table. The wood
mostly is solid Tasmanian Oak. Tassie Oak is what many pieces of 'fine'
Aussie furniture was (and some still are) made from. I say 'mostly' as
some
of the parts under the table are of cheap pine and to make it worse the
construction is crude and artless - screws everywhere.The top is made of
three solid boards with beautiful grain.
I don't really need a table - I have two too many now! So what shall I do
with it, dismantle it and wait for the muse to strike? Or clean it up and
sell it?

Mekon

Mekon wrote:

I don't really need a table - I have two too many now! So what
shall I do
with it, dismantle it and wait for the muse to strike? Or clean it
up and
sell it?

You already know the answer.

Make a new bottom that is up to your specs, attach that beautiful top,
then set a price in your mind.

Now double that price and sell it.

Lew

Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 4:25am (EST+5) (Mekon) doth
plaintively query:
snip So what shall I do with it, dismantle it and wait for the muse to
strike? Or clean it up and sell it?

I always have problems with posts of this type. You've got to ask
someone to tell you what to do? If that's what you need you should have
asked your mother.
Next time you might consider asking for "suggestions" as to what to
do, rather than instructions.

Personally, if I didn't know anyone that needed a table, to give it
to (in that case I'd probably clean it up first), I imagine I'd take it
apart for the wood. There, see, I'm not telling you what to do with it,
just what "I" probably would do in a similar case.



JOAT
It's not hard, if you get your mind right.
- Granny Weatherwax

"Mekon" wrote in message
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I have just been given a standard sized (8 or so seater) table. The wood
mostly is solid Tasmanian Oak. Tassie Oak is what many pieces of 'fine'
Aussie furniture was (and some still are) made from. I say 'mostly' as
some
of the parts under the table are of cheap pine and to make it worse the
construction is crude and artless - screws everywhere.The top is made of
three solid boards with beautiful grain.
I don't really need a table - I have two too many now! So what shall I do
with it, dismantle it and wait for the muse to strike? Or clean it up and
sell it?

Mekon


Next time you're in Burbank, drop it off at my place and have a beer or
Scotch Whisky if you prefer.



First rule of woodworking; Never throw away a good piece of wood!

Vic

Mekon wrote:
I have just been given a standard sized (8 or so seater) table. The wood
mostly is solid Tasmanian Oak. Tassie Oak is what many pieces of 'fine'
Aussie furniture was (and some still are) made from. I say 'mostly' as some
of the parts under the table are of cheap pine and to make it worse the
construction is crude and artless - screws everywhere.The top is made of
three solid boards with beautiful grain.
I don't really need a table - I have two too many now! So what shall I do
with it, dismantle it and wait for the muse to strike? Or clean it up and
sell it?


Tasmanian Oak is highly toxic. You should dismantle the table and ship
the top to me for proper disposal.

"J T" wrote in message
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Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 4:25am (EST+5) (Mekon) doth
plaintively query:
snip So what shall I do with it, dismantle it and wait for the muse to
strike? Or clean it up and sell it?

I always have problems with posts of this type. You've got to ask
someone to tell you what to do? If that's what you need you should have
asked your mother.

(snip)

A touch on the hard side...I am not about to take instructions from anyone
without some sort of legal basis for it. Too old and stubborn for that..
The post was a (perhaps too subtle) attempt at what I have seen called here
'a drive by' showing off my good fortune on thsi occasion.

I guess I'll have to read more of other's 'drive bys' before I get the hang
of it.

Mekon