Vintage Martin T75 restoration

[Patrick Walsh]

More 45 year old Burmese teak..

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Then a pile of figured cherry I ran into a couple years ago when I was sourcing cherry for a large cherry project we did at work. I couldn’t pass on it. My intention is to build a flat top highboy with it. I actually love period reproduction or just antique period furniture. It was actually period furniture that first inspired me to delve into a more skilled form of Woodworking that just the general carpentry skills of a home builder. I walked into a store full of very high end period furniture “little of it could I afford”. But by the time I walked out of that store I had myself convinced the stuff was largely very simple and most of it I was perfectly capable of making. I actually fell in love with a $35000 bonnet top secretary. I will build that piece someday but probably not till I retire. I know I’ll never be buying it that’s for sure!

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And that’s not even my whole cherry collection. Those are just matched boards for one project.