Someone did some nice work rebuilding these drawers. I wouldn't have bought the desk with missing drawers.[ATTACH]
Here are the before and after pictures. Before doesn't look like it needs work in the pictures. But the desk was in Missouri and I was in Texas....
One more repair I had to do. On the bottom of the roll shown in the pic the wood is broken where you pull down the roll. Out came the router and I...
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One last repair, the sides of the drawer box are damaged. [ATTACH] I did glue some canvas to the slats but only the slats that fold or curve...
Had to take the roll part off again after I pulled it down the first time. The brass tape was broken at the bottom. All fixed now and ready to put...
Retired 9 years. Plenty of time for everything.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Got it together today, had to wait for the thin brass and 3/8 inch tacks. Bought both on ebay. Tacks were NOS and I got...
The old box springs hang down under the bed rails and are usually uncovered with cloth. The mattress sits on top of the bed rails.
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Don't think too many are solid brass. The antiques I've seen are all a very thin sheet of brass wrapped around steel tubes. These beds don't do...
Didn't know this until I started to restore a 100 year old roll top desk. The slats in the roll are held together by a thin brass strip threaded...
From my Bill Holm eye circa 1975 I say fake! Took Bill Holm's course in NW Indian art at UW. He was rather famous in the NW as a documenter of...
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