the aged old question - reminds me of the stewardess I had a date with.
Sitting in her stewardess type apartment on the new distressed sofa, you
know the thing looked like it had been at Au Graub, the odd burn and router
attack, she almost gave me the heave ho sooner than she eventually did when
I set down my Balantine Ale without a doily. and Ken remember the fat Greek
guy (of White Plains windows fame) with his aged beams?
    The other side is a customer I spent a few moments with looking a his
barn. In a state of very slow collapse, sills gone roof racked. He asked,
"Can you fix it without ruining it?" It was the same question I was asking
myself.
    yours,
 Barney Rubble
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cuyler Page" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [BP] Department of the Inferior


>> I went
>> at it with a sledge and banged it around a bit to make it look like
>> authentic shit.
>
> Tried and true technique.   At Blackcreek Village historic town museum in
> Toronto, a carpenter working there was given the task of making a
> reproduction bedroom dresser.   He was really a furniture maker at heart,
> and put all his love into a finely crafted replica of perfection,
> dovetailed
> drawers, hand planed and carved details, the whole nine yards complete
> with
> hand-rubbed finish.   The day after he delivered it, he saw the display
> department crew dragging the dresser across the parking lot behind a
> pick-up
> truck "to make it look more authentic" as they told him.
>
> Funny how many have such a hard time stomaching the idea that these old
> things once looked shiny new, preferring the distance and mystery created
> by
> patina, even the modern artificial type of patina (or is that the wrong
> use
> of the word when applied to the pick-up truck technique?).
>
> cp in bc
>
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