I bought this old lectern, most likely originally from a church, from the reclamation place in Three Holes.
The guy that runs that place asked for £50. I believe I paid £25. It was in a pretty sorry state. Evidently it’s been outdoors a good long while.
Made of oak. It’s been heavily weathered. Some of the timbers have dried out, bowed, and even cracked.
Originally, or at least when I first got it, it hated a kind of platform, for standing on, when at the lectern. I didn’t like this; it made the whole piece both unwieldy and space-consuming.
So the first thing I did today was cut that off, and use a part of it to strengthen what remained, and became the new and smaller footprint.
Evidence of earlier modifications? One side has the original … , whilst the other has been replaced with dowels, and their corresponding holes.