Reality From a Promise

A Red Oak promise....realized!

My customer explained how she had taken a fun woodworking class. The experience had her discover a project of her choosing and she decided to design and build a little red oak table. As we all know, sometimes life just gets in our way and our plans get modified. Perhaps you can guess the rest of this story. 

She conceived and inked her plan and then she began to fabricate the little table. Well, she never was able to get it completed. So, she lovingly packed it up and moved it, and moved it....and moved it, a promising stack of red oak boards she has since carried forward into her life. But her little stack of boards kept whispering to her. 

Recently she drove bye one of our neighborhood area advertisements. She decided to inquire whether we could help her fabricate her little red oak stack of promises into the table she had long hoped to feel and embrace. 

Well, there it is! It's almost exactly as she designed it. We made a couple very simple in-process modifications to help her realize this beautiful testament to her original vision. Nice job! She'll be putting her own loving autograph on it, because she wants to finish it herself! 

Wow, I think that's a really fun little fun story.

So it's Wood Talkin for today. Keep listening, because wood really does talk!

Memories Restored

Here's a1900's little beauty.This little tray table came to us in pieces....12 of them! The only missing piece was the top surface. Our customer found this little promise at a garage sale placed in an open cardboard box. She immediately recognized it as identical to a little table she cherished from her own home as a child. It's not the same table, but one of the same design. It spoke to her heart, "Please rescue me."

She did. She bought this cardboard box of promise and brought it to us at Wood Talkin. "Can you put this back together and refinish it like it would have looked back then?" Sure thing.

So, about ten days later....here it is (through several stages of finish), now ready to go"back" home...to the love and affections of someone who will do just that, love this little table, a promise...realized again.

Ok then. That's Wood Talkin for today.....please keep listening.