Church Pew delivered today - late Victorian . . .

[Neil]

I thought you guys may be interested in this.

My father {73 years young} attends a Cardiff based carpentry club, and was approached by a Vicar to make some wooden doors for the local church. The Vicar was quoted 2k+ to make them, so my father said - "I can make them with my friends for cost" {which is about £300 - a huge difference!}

As a thank you the vicar offered my father an old oak church pew from his church which he was going to skip. Dad in turn offered it to me as he already has one in his hallway. We collected it on Monday and it weighed a ton - we really struggled to get it into my Landy and had to drive home to Dads house with the boot open to accommodate it. I gave the vicar a contribution to the church fund for it.

Its missing its Pew Number which the friendly Vicar is kindly going to find for me. On the plus side his church borders a couple of acres of pasture that they own and he's happy for me to do a scan of the area.

Anyway, Dad has spent the last 4 days restoring it and it looks fabulous now. My father-in-law helped me bring it around to my house tonight in his truck and both of us {he's 6'3 and built like Goliath} were struggling to carry it.

It dates to the origins of the church, which is 1860 and now lives in my Dining Room. Really pleased with it, although the wife is not too impressed and uttered her  frequent phrase of "What the Hell have you bought now?" thats bordering on blasphemy in my book!

Cheers
Neil

[dances with badgers]

very nice bit of furniture neil,they just dont understand mate and never will.
  last october i did a job for a lady in llanelli who asked me if i knew anyone who wanted a bass amp,a full size keyboard,full size korg electric piano,a keyboard amp and a yamaha electric drum kit.altogether it was around a grands worth of equipment. she said she was throwing it all out so i told her i would take it and gave her 50 quid for lot.
 she was happy with that,when i got home the mrs went nuts lol until i sold most of it for 500 quid,changed her tune then oh aye.
  that is a lovely bit of wood mate 

[bajero]

Tidy job,got one similar but its in 'kit form' in the shed,started stripping it down years ago,then got side tracked - this could b the inspirational jolt I need!!!

[JRD]

Wow! Very nice Neil.

If your wife wins the argument I will take it off your hands 

[Mungo]

very nice ......and a bit of tectin to boot....

[Villan (Neil)]

Very nice Neil.Looks like it was made for that space bud ! How about putting the phone next to it ? I'm sure the good lady will get plenty of use out of it then !

[dances with badgers]

you cant beat an old bit of beech. take a trip to resolven market one day,the operator dismantles churches and sells the bits off

[staterchaser]

Just seen the perfect mini bar on ebay, would look just gr8 with the pew!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-antique-carved-gothic-oak-altar-church-pulpit-1850-/160621487054?pt=Architectural_Garden&hash=item2565c963ce

[dances with badgers]

mini bar cool ,you could get drunk and start preaching like rab c nesbit