It's been pretty lonely and boring around here with out them. The cat was entertaining for awhile, now shes just annoying. Into everything and anything she can be.
I've managed to keep myself pretty busy while they've been gone. Haven't had a lot of new jobs come rolling in, but thats ok, it will pick up. I've had a couple different adjusters tell me its the start of the busy season now, so thats a good thing for me. Over the last week seems like all I've seen on the freeway are moving trucks coming into town. Several taking the Tangerine road exit here by our house and heading out into Oro Valley...its kinda like the Lake Oswego of Tucson for you portland metro area folk. Lots of big houses, lots of snooty people...and alot of new houses for all these old and rich people to move into :) GO OLD RICH PEOPLE!!!
I've had 4 tables and a chair in the garage for weeks now trying to get them finished and taken back to some customers. 2 of the items are for shipping claims, the other 3 items are from being at a shippers house, having them like my work, and then asking me if I can refinish a piece of furniture for them...well duh, of $ course $ I $ can $ silly $. :) For the right price, I will do just about anything, aside from wearing a skirt that is....panty hose ok, but no skirts.
One of the items was a Herman Miller Chair that started out with some huge scratches on the seat. At first I was leary on trying the repair cause the scratches were across the grain and those are hard to get rid of, but, all turned out well in the end. Here are some before and after pic's of the chair.
And now the after pic's.
The other item I finished today was an old hutch. The before pic isn't that great as I forgot to take a picture of the entire top. There were way more scratches on the top than these pics show, but you get the idea.
The after pic has some weird spots that showed up on it, not sure what that is, but still, the effective point is made, they are done.
I have 3 more tables to do, one of them has been sanded and stained, the other has been sanded. Tomorrow I'll get the other one stained, then the 2 of them will be ready for lacquer. The 3rd table is all done too, just needs a coat of wax on top of it and its ready to go back to the customer too. I'll get some pix of all those posted as soon as I'm done. I'm off to get some chow then its bed time. Have to get up early tomorrow and go take back this jerks speaker covers that I had to recover with new speaker fabric. He better be happy or he's going to look awfully funny with them crammed up his bum!
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