Hell week table 1 -
We had a hell of a week last week. On top of being jam packed with routine residential work, we had some doozies. It was fun to have an opportunity to implement almost everything we learned at the Alsip convention, and then some, all in one week. Check them out:
This is a Gold Crown that we recovered in King's Table in Beavercreek, Ohio.
When we got to it, it didn't have the sides on the table because of bent blind hinges:
It had plenty of wrinkles and stretch marks in the rails:
Possibly from stretching over these poorly finished facings? LOL
The pockets looked like this:
There was also a crowned slate, blowouts in the back of the ball box where it screwed into the frame, and the ends of the frame were weak.
We ended up tearing the table down to the bare frame and reinforcing it like how we learned in Alsip. Then we reinstalled the slate, levelled it and repaired the crown:
Also pulled the old ratty facings and replaced them with 3/8" neoprene. (That stuff is the nuts!)
Ball box went back together nicely with the new back, and I have to thank O'Reilly Auto for having a pretty good match to the original paint!
I still need a little practice with the pocket finishing, but I think they look much better than the before pictures:
And here's the finished product after some work to the blind brackets:
So there's one of the monsters we worked on this week. Ended up putting about 11 hours into it, including all the work to the slate, frame, facings, blinds and rebuilding the ball box.
We had a hell of a week last week. On top of being jam packed with routine residential work, we had some doozies. It was fun to have an opportunity to implement almost everything we learned at the Alsip convention, and then some, all in one week. Check them out:
This is a Gold Crown that we recovered in King's Table in Beavercreek, Ohio.
When we got to it, it didn't have the sides on the table because of bent blind hinges:
It had plenty of wrinkles and stretch marks in the rails:
Possibly from stretching over these poorly finished facings? LOL
The pockets looked like this:
There was also a crowned slate, blowouts in the back of the ball box where it screwed into the frame, and the ends of the frame were weak.
We ended up tearing the table down to the bare frame and reinforcing it like how we learned in Alsip. Then we reinstalled the slate, levelled it and repaired the crown:
Also pulled the old ratty facings and replaced them with 3/8" neoprene. (That stuff is the nuts!)
Ball box went back together nicely with the new back, and I have to thank O'Reilly Auto for having a pretty good match to the original paint!
I still need a little practice with the pocket finishing, but I think they look much better than the before pictures:
And here's the finished product after some work to the blind brackets:
So there's one of the monsters we worked on this week. Ended up putting about 11 hours into it, including all the work to the slate, frame, facings, blinds and rebuilding the ball box.
