Found Part Two of the New Old Bench Parts

Phase two of the bench pieces is taking shape.

The picture here is fairly scarey, I know, but it is what it is, and that's an old portable drafting board. This was part of a friend's artist equipment. It had a bunch of tools attached to it and he used it forever ... until he discovered things like Photoshop and Illustrator and CAD programs.


He set this aside and one day one of his kids broke some of the attachments and cut himself ... not badly but enough to send him crying for half an hour. His mama soothed the boo-boo, gave him some ice cream and gave him instructions on how to avoid his daddy's disorganized studio.

The board went into a closet for a while until mama came up with an idea for it. She covered it with some leftover wallpaper and used it as part of her rubber stamp workshop but eventually she lost interest in this hobby and the littel board once again was relegated to a closet.

Recently, the couple moved out of state. I was hired (more or less) to clean up the house so it could be sold and one of the things I found was this board.

It's in awful shape. I'm having trouble getting all the wallpaper off of it and it is scratched, dented, and generally a mess. But that makes it perfect for my project.

I'll start working on it this week and post the next phase soon.