I'm having great difficulty finding any cheap hardwood around here - for example, I went to our local charity recycling place today and asked if they had any scrap hardwood - "No chance mate, it's like gold" was the reply.
So I invested £3 in this old table at a local recycling emporium (aka junk yard) in the hope that at least some of it is mahogany.
I'm not yet any good at identifying wood, but am I right in thinking that all the component parts of the drawer shown are mahogany? if not mahogany, what wood could it be? - the whole drawer seems to be made from the same wood.
Bear in mind that this table benefitted (!) from being left out in the Welsh climate for Goodness know how long before I was fooled into buying it.
Martin.
So I invested £3 in this old table at a local recycling emporium (aka junk yard) in the hope that at least some of it is mahogany.
I'm not yet any good at identifying wood, but am I right in thinking that all the component parts of the drawer shown are mahogany? if not mahogany, what wood could it be? - the whole drawer seems to be made from the same wood.
Bear in mind that this table benefitted (!) from being left out in the Welsh climate for Goodness know how long before I was fooled into buying it.
Martin.