Saved from the trash pile.
I have been working on this several weeks. It sat in a car port for
about twenty years and has been in my shed for over ten.
My Dad built it in 1936 as a high school wood shop project. It was
nailed together and painted white originally. Now it has dowels,
biscuits and splines and glue. Finished with four coats of amber
shellac. No stain.
It fell apart when I got it out of the shed so there are no real "before"
pictures, just the parts.
It has no $$ value, just a lot of family history.
The bottom shelf was replace with 1/4 ply in the fifties and a large
chrome knob installed. It had eight coats of paint.
When Mom and Dad moved to their new house in 2000 Dad said,
"Throw the damn thing away".
The top was so bowed it took weeks of wetting and clamping to get
it flat. The under side was never painted, it is now.
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I used the original nail holes to locate the dowels so all the misalignment
is still there. There is not a straight cut or square corner on the whole
thing.