These pictures will tell the story here. So, right, is a poor quality but effective picture of what were probably a puppy's "love bites" on one of the legs. Most of that scarring was removed in the stripping and surface renewal process (below left), but given the table's heirloom status, with all the stories it can tell, the tooth marks were carefully "edited" so family members can still find and revisit the puppy's memory--but in a way the table "wants to tell it."Here is the promise of a new Pfyfe foot. You can see the broken one with it's strong down angular lines behind the block of Maple. Y
ou can also see the outline of the new foot penciled into the Maple block's surface. It's ready to be cut out and shaped for placement and gluing as a Pfyfe-styled foot.
Finally, below, is the stained and sealed table as it looks just before the lacquer finish coat and hand rubbing. It appears almost like knew--almost. (That broken foot is on the one you seen on the right.) The table retains it's heirloom integrity with the stories that compliment it. It stands proudly at attention anticipating a handsome new hand-rubbed lacquer finish. It's a promise in the makin
g, and deservedly so!
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