A new project has arrived on my doorstep.
This is a thousand dollar table that I got for the low-low price of free. I'm not really sure why it's a whole kilobuck. The hardware at least seems like it's reasonable quality, but the top is just white painted MDF, with only the center leaf being elm... veneer... over MDF.
At least the frame is solid ash, so it's got that going for it.
So why didn't I pay $1000 for it? Other than the fact that I'd feel bad paying that much for an MDF-topped table?
Because it had a little oopsie in shipping on its way to a coworker's house. He contacted the company and got them to send out a replacement, but that meant he was left with an extra, damaged table. I offered to make it disappear from his garage for the generous offer of "I'll show up with my van," and so that's when the table became my problem to deal with.
How will I deal with this problem? Well I'm glad you asked.
The design intent of the table is for there to be a contrast between the top and the frame/leaf, so I'm thinking of going with maple or some similar light, hard wood to replace the top. I'll also probably stain the frame and leaf a darker color to make it look a bit more like the walnut version, so as to make sure that the color difference between the leaf and the top is big enough to appear intentional.
When will this all happen? Probably not exceptionally soon. I want to finish my workbench first so that I'll be able to use it when making the new top. Now that the patio chairs are all done, I'll probably be going full steam ahead on the workbench again.
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