Nah he just needs to have Karen buy him a planer for Christmas. That will take the stain out of the wood and he can start over.
----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] saving scrap lumber I think it was Joey Heatherton who used to bounce on the mattress. as for matching stainms that is a tough job but I think you could do it./ L On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:17:35PM -0500, Lenny McHugh wrote: > Well, a few months ago there was a post about why men save scrap wood. This > week it nearly broke my heart to toss out some great wood. We have a bedroom > suit made by Pennsylvania House in the late thirties or early forties. It is > a blond set. This week we upgraded the bed to a queen-size. The old set was > much larger than the current full size and slightly smaller than the > queen-size. The store had some adaptors that allowed them to utilize our > head board. It is very slightly smaller and if one did not know they would > believe that it was made for the queen-size bed. The old wooden rails and > foot board could not be used. The wood was fantastic. I never knew what it > was. The delivery guys identified it as brown cherry with an old style blond > stain. Since I do not have a plainer it was not worth saving the tworails. > They were one and 1/4 inch thick and had no real use for the wood in the > foot board. I pondered a few days to keep it or not. > I can not convince Karen to take a glass of wine and put it on the bed while > she jumps up and down to see if it will spill. A girl does it on TV. > Now that I know what kind of wood I would like to strip and refinish in a > cherry stain. I can not convince the boss to let me try it.She heard the > furniture guys recommend to send it out so everything is a perfect match. > Still would like to try it myself. > --- > Please visit my home page; it is motivational, inspirational and humorous > with many resources for the blind. > http://www.lennymchugh.com > Lenny > Please Copy and Paste into New Message to pass along. Use BCC line when > addressing. > Help stop identity theft. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Send any questions regarding list management to: > [email protected] > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > Or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: > [email protected]! Groups Links > > > -- Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
