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<p>[QUOTE="Ol' Bob, post: 9424428, member: 80904"]She decided she didn't need a writing table. She needed a coffee table.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]433448[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So she had someone unbolt the legs, and cut them down. Note the pretty</p><p>tiger oak veneer on top.</p><p>When the neighbor (Birdy) got old, she gave this table to her favorite neice, Irma. Irma, who collected antiques, liked it, put a glass top on it, and kept it. She tossed the old typewriter, which is a shame.</p><p>I got to interview Irma and see the table in the mid-2000s. Took some photos, chatted about it, tried to get her to contribute it back to the author's house, which is now a museum and on the national Registry of Historical Places. The house is mostly restored to its look of the 20s and 30s, and a lot of the original furnishings and artwork have made its way back. This is the big buck we been hunting. I suggested at that time that Irma go ahead and donate it, but she said she really liked it and wanted to keep it. But she'd told her daughter to give it to the museum when she died.</p><p>Irma passed a few years ago, and her daughter, Carolyn, couldn't bring herself to empty out Mom's house. As dumb luck would have it, I happened to move last year to the same town that Carolyn was in, though I didn't know it at the time. I took some time to track her down, and worked through her son. Finally, I have it in hand.</p><p>What I'm thinking would be good is to put the legs back to full length, so that it can be displayed in its appropriate place of honor.</p><p>The vertical portion of the legs easily attach to the bottom cross-member, and there is a removable 1" cross member up under the top that the legs bolt to. So, just a straight 4X4, with 1/8" veneers, up to whatever is the proper length. Even someone as amateur as I can do this one. But I need to ID the veneer on the legs.</p><p>And, if anyone knows off the top of their head, how tall should the writing table be?</p><p>Thanks very much for any assistance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ol' Bob, post: 9424428, member: 80904"]She decided she didn't need a writing table. She needed a coffee table. [ATTACH=full]433448[/ATTACH] So she had someone unbolt the legs, and cut them down. Note the pretty tiger oak veneer on top. When the neighbor (Birdy) got old, she gave this table to her favorite neice, Irma. Irma, who collected antiques, liked it, put a glass top on it, and kept it. She tossed the old typewriter, which is a shame. I got to interview Irma and see the table in the mid-2000s. Took some photos, chatted about it, tried to get her to contribute it back to the author's house, which is now a museum and on the national Registry of Historical Places. The house is mostly restored to its look of the 20s and 30s, and a lot of the original furnishings and artwork have made its way back. This is the big buck we been hunting. I suggested at that time that Irma go ahead and donate it, but she said she really liked it and wanted to keep it. But she'd told her daughter to give it to the museum when she died. Irma passed a few years ago, and her daughter, Carolyn, couldn't bring herself to empty out Mom's house. As dumb luck would have it, I happened to move last year to the same town that Carolyn was in, though I didn't know it at the time. I took some time to track her down, and worked through her son. Finally, I have it in hand. What I'm thinking would be good is to put the legs back to full length, so that it can be displayed in its appropriate place of honor. The vertical portion of the legs easily attach to the bottom cross-member, and there is a removable 1" cross member up under the top that the legs bolt to. So, just a straight 4X4, with 1/8" veneers, up to whatever is the proper length. Even someone as amateur as I can do this one. But I need to ID the veneer on the legs. And, if anyone knows off the top of their head, how tall should the writing table be? Thanks very much for any assistance.[/QUOTE]
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