Took the writing desk I rescued from the local dump into S&F today. For a second time. First time I was just sizing her up. This time I set to work.
There was no brass sheet, as such. So Karl suggested I use a bit of brass from a door latch plate. Cutting g the latter with a fret-saw was raking aeons. Transitioning to a (?) saw cut down my work time (boom boom!) dramatically.
Walter has said he has Walnut veneer, and will bring it in. Fab! Hope that’ll match? No idea what wood it is… Asked Clem, he thought poss’ walnut? I also think it might be teak, or mahogany. who knows!?
I had a pleasant time at S&F, despite my own work there being rather disappointing. once home I revisited what I’d failed to do at S&F, which was the two missing bits of brass ‘piping’. These prices a damn sight harder to make and place than I’d anticipated.
Superglue failed to do the job (as usual!). So I had to resort to Araldite epoxy.
I added some wood-filler, where I’d wound up carving out a deeper flatter, squarer channel, for the brass piping. This will support a strip of veneer, in due course.
After separating the lid – see the above gallery – which, again, proved really hard work (old screws rusted in situ), I really cleaned up where the green velvet and material hinges had been. Once again, really hard work going.
And the final job this evening? Making a brass plate to replace all the damaged wood, where there was a slot for locking one of the writing surface boards in place.
This involved making a brass plate with screw (mounting) holes, and a slot. And cleaning up and repairing the very damaged area where this will sit.