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For as long as I can remember, one way or another there was a cable spool table in my life. For those of you that don't know what they are, here is an example:
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The best I can say is that they are usually free, and close to indestructible. I had one in college, and that was when the bricks and boards were popular. But, back then was before I learned to respect furniture.
I met a magnificent woman after my second divorce that had one in her apartment. I made her my third wife (and she still is), but not because of the table. She has an extremely thorough methodology as part of her persona (definitely not genetic). She found her spool table along side of the road, and decided to make it a part of her household. Her story tells of how stained and dirty it was.
She has class, and that means take the thing apart, sand all the parts to bare wood, then stain and finish. That was what she did. What she didn't do was mark all the parts to know how the table would go back together. She said it took hours of swapping pieces until everything fit. I gotta say for a free spool table it looked pretty darn nice. So, her advice is if you take one apart, mark all the pieces first.
Here is a site that has a few suggestions to glamorize one of those things, it's called Crimes Against Furniture (check out the headboard). If you have a good story about a cable spool table, or have one now, tell your story.
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The best I can say is that they are usually free, and close to indestructible. I had one in college, and that was when the bricks and boards were popular. But, back then was before I learned to respect furniture.
I met a magnificent woman after my second divorce that had one in her apartment. I made her my third wife (and she still is), but not because of the table. She has an extremely thorough methodology as part of her persona (definitely not genetic). She found her spool table along side of the road, and decided to make it a part of her household. Her story tells of how stained and dirty it was.
She has class, and that means take the thing apart, sand all the parts to bare wood, then stain and finish. That was what she did. What she didn't do was mark all the parts to know how the table would go back together. She said it took hours of swapping pieces until everything fit. I gotta say for a free spool table it looked pretty darn nice. So, her advice is if you take one apart, mark all the pieces first.
Here is a site that has a few suggestions to glamorize one of those things, it's called Crimes Against Furniture (check out the headboard). If you have a good story about a cable spool table, or have one now, tell your story.
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Loring in Katy, TX USA
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