Dorset Finds

Doing your taxes? If you're like me, you want to have some excellent procrastination tools handy. I mix my Cost-of-Goods-Sold calculating with virtually visiting some amazing collections of cool things. Try the Dorset Finds board on Pinterest.

Metal's the thing

We love mixing wood with metal, so we were happy to see that our customers still wanted metal furniture this spring.  One hit was this pair of antique aluminum lounge chairs. They have decorative cast aluminum legs and folding awning supports. 

Workbench with Galvanized Top

This workbench has a galvanized steel top and lots of storage space.

Metal Patch

I've mentioned how we give industrial sewing machine tables a new life as adjustable desks. Often, the original tops for industrial sewing machine tables were wooden butcher block made from some type of hardwood, usually maple.  Unfortunately, that top had a huge hole where the actual sewing machine sat. Useful for sewing, but not useful for the table's second life. Usually we replace that top with other wood. Sometimes, though, Keith will patch the original hole with pieces of angle iron. He uses a chisel to set in the metal so that the angle iron patch is level with the wood.  Very sweet.

Coal Chute Top

Speaking of change, here is a scroll saw table with a top that used to be part of a coal chute. Former power tool base, meet previous pipeline to power.