March 2007
10 “Where Good Times are Not a Matter of Good Luck”
1400 Airport Road - Kalispell, MT (406) 257-9656
From The Work Bench
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12th Annual
Tom Scott Memorial Pool Tournament March 16th, 17th, & 18th
721 N 7th Ave Bozeman, MT
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Calcutta will be Friday night at 9:00 at VFW - Ball in hand rules - An 8 ball on the break is an automatic rerack You must be signed up by the 12th of March and sorry their will be no t-shirts this year
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Brackets are flighted Race to 4 on Saturday Race to 5 on Sunday We will be taking the first 16 men and 8 women into Sunday There will be a mini tournament at the VFW Friday night. It will start at 7:00 in the backroom so please come there to sign up For information or to sign up please call: Tim Scott cell- 293-1283 35 McKays St. Libby, MT. 59923 Patty Dunning cell-293-1576 h-293-7280 200 Mtn Meadow Rd. Libby, MT. 59923 MOTELS: Sandman: 406-293-8831 Super 8: 406-293-2771/Caboose: 406-293-6210 Evergreen: 406-293-4178/Venture: 406-293-7711
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a nEW fACE FOR AN OLD hAG As time goes by in what is left of my years it becomes Pat Sheehan more and more a fact the restoring a tired older table can be more work and take a lot more time than building a brand new copy of the old one. Even though I have been fixing up the old ones since I was nine years old each one brings out a new challenge; offers a new approach; teaches a new lesson. I sold Mike McMenamin a table that I had in inventory for many years and I was getting tired of paying storage on it and all the other older tables that I have been moving with me to all the locations that I have kept them in for all these years. Mike likes Quarter sawn oak and he wanted 4 1/2 x 9’s for his newest place “ the Spar “ in Olympia and this Mission style suited Mike’s plan if I could The Mission tables for the Spar in Olympia. Antique table in foreground do a match. The match took less than 30 man hours for my son and Aaron to bring to the point of applying the tints and Orange Shellac; however, the Original got wet in storage and the veneer had peeled and the corners of the frame had come apart. I spent over 100 hours getting the table reglued, veneer put back and finished. It’s a lot harder to match colors on an old table for the side and end exposed to the day-light for 70 years is not going to have the same character as the ones that have been in the shade. The flake on 100 year old Quarter sawn oak table is much larger and defined than you can find today and the contrast more pronounced. Both tables look alike but to me the old one is the more beautiful, but you can judge for yourself. The Spar is on fourth, 1 block off Capital in Olympia. From the Heckman restoration. Holes for the pockets Just as we finished drilled incorectly and restorer replaced pockets with the Spar I got a call modern # 6 which will not fit antique from the Heckman’s right here in Scappoose. Three years ago they had their table completely restored by someone calling themselves Antique table specialists. The cushions they put on had completely fallen off. The rail cloth had pulled out of the feather strips and the pockets did not even come close to fitting. They did not know that hard finishes will not stick to Rosewood so it blistered. Worse yet, years ago when it was converted, the person in charge managed to cut 5 of the six rails short and mess up Continued........page 32