DISGRACEFUL! or might be a bargain..

[SteveB43]

While perusing a few blogs, read about a hint of a site that sells reconditioned 'industrial furniture' ie workbenches..

Here's a great example, sadly sold http://www.original-house.co.uk/Productdetail.aspx?pid=603c45de-e11a-4791-bdf6-50d75349e4de and a few others too late to rescue...

any suggestions as to where to place that lamp ??

as for price, well the showroom's in a nice part of the Cotswolds....

Cheers!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Well, it's sold - there's an eejit out there somewhere.

 

[No skills]

#-o

 

[stevenw1963]

a fool & his money is soon parted!!

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Jesus...£1200......reminds me of that Harry Enfield character..."I saw you coming"

 

[graduate_owner]

I wonder how much they'd sell my old B&D workmate for. More interestingly, how would they describe it? Mid Elizabethan collapsible side table with original saw cuts and patina?

K

 

[Jelly]

Moreover... Who the hell wants a scraggy old workbench (sanded or not) in their house?

 

[No skills]

Yes for £1200 they could of got a nice new one.

 

[Jelly]

Yes for £1200 they could of got a nice new one.

What's worse is the refurbished work tables for £1200 each... By re-furbing them, they've made them look like new ones... To get new the legs cost just shy of £25 for each end, angle iron for the lipping would be £40ish and you could pick up some damaged scaffold planks for nowt to make a top that's just as ugly and uneven.

Maybe as a site full of people who spend quite a lot of time making workbenches uglier in order to make beautiful furniture, we're simply never going to understand.

 

[No skills]

Oh I understand odd people and their money, still its their money and gives us a laugh in the process so who cares 8)

Worse things happen at sea.

 

[Jelly]

Oh I understand odd people and their money, still its their money and gives us a laugh in the process so who cares 8)

Worse things happen at sea.

I didn't mean that... I meant aesthetically.

I've met more than enough people with too much (of mummy and daddy's) money and not enough sense in the last couple of years to last a lifetime.

 

[Jamesc]

Yikes, I just looked at the lighting section. Some of the 'Machine' lamps sold for more money than I paid for my machines with lamps attatched. Perhaps I should be flogging the lamps and buying more toys with the proceeds. Still I suspect that without the Cotswold address I wouln't get anywhere near these prices.

 

[MIGNAL]

If it's industrial they want then they should get themselves oop North. For a small agents fee I can marry them with a rather sumptuous Victorian mill, complete with infinite vistas of grime. Their precious daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth (Lottie for short) will also have the privilege of a splendiferous internship:





T*ss*rs.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

LOL....Totty you mean

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

I wonder how much they'd sell my old B&D workmate for. More interestingly, how would they describe it? Mid Elizabethan collapsible side table with original saw cuts and patina?

K

Thats funny Graduate....note how the pigeon cowpat has been sympathetically "cut back" and then french polished.

 

[Benchwayze]

Well, it's sold - there's an eejit out there somewhere.

Well if it's an 'eejit' woodie, that person has found what looks to be a good solid bench, for around the same price you'd pay for a top-end McGuire. (Which is what I would buy, if I was thirty years younger! )

 

[mind_the_goat]

It's just a great way of sneaking your workshop indoors without swmbo noticing.

 

[Peter Sefton]

I think Sarah would notice but it's worth a try :!:

 

[graduate_owner]

Hi Bob,
good idea - I hadn't thought of French polishing my workmate first. Should add about £350 to the existing price. And with a machine lamp fitted, well, the sky's the limit.

K