What has made you Happy today??

[mudnut]

I remember a doco on rangers hunting down starlings. I have noticed there are less fairy wrens around as the sparrow population has grown. It is since we've had chooks that the sparrows have been breeding again. I gotta make a sparrow trap.

[threedogs]

Saw this 1850 games table top on Ebay a while ago and thought it had potential,
So I brought for $30, the seller said it might be worth some coin cleaned up Cha Ching
I says. So looking through Ebay again I found a tilt top Mahogany table from 1850 but the top had a split in it.{$60}
I told them what I wanted it for and this seller said it would be perfect. Cleaned them both up
and married them together and sent a few pictures to museums and Auction houses to get a rough
value of the table. It uses all original hardware .Im wrapped the way its turned out. So my
2 bits of furniture costing about $90 has now been appraised at a whopping $4500.
now if only there was someone out there to buy it at that price,
Iv purchased some 76mm weighted rosewood chess pieces for it as well.
It has about 10 different species of timber even a cribbage board around the edge.
Got bored lol

[Hodge]

Checkmate!

[Cuppa]

Well done!

[mudnut]

Who's a clever boy, then, as it looks great. That table looks like one my parents used to have before they moved. Hopefully it is still in storage.

[threedogs]

Pretty happy with the outcome
I have a few meat safes from about 1880s and a heap of ice boxes
Dont make furniture like that anymore eh.
That chair is a 1860 walnut balloon back in original trim
The meat safe is 1860 the red cedar ice box is 1854 from the Shramrock hotel
in Bendigo the other is Mudski but I have another I store dry dog food and parrot seed in
keeps the mice at bay. you can pick up a 1930's one for $20 they come up a treat
and all hardware etc is available, they make great wine cellars or home entertainment
enclosure, Old cream one is Marks before I cleaned it up, ready for pick up hint hint
Bottom left Im doing japan black on the oak surfaces, shows up wood grain a treat

[macca]

I remember a doco on rangers hunting down starlings. I have noticed there are less fairy wrens around as the sparrow population has grown. It is since we've had chooks that the sparrows have been breeding again. I gotta make a sparrow trap.

Please send the plans, sparrows give our chook food a pasting

[Clunk]

Just remembered, don't have to get up for work tomorrow

[4bye4]

Just remembered, don't have to get up for work tomorrow

Hardly worth getting up at all then.

[Clunk]

Hardly worth getting up at all then.

If I didn't have kids, I wouldn't