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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Deacon's Bench...what is a FMV?

« on: May 05, 2012, 06:14:22 am »

Thank you for your responses! Not sure what I am going to do with it. My wife says "Keep it" because she would like a little project to do....buuttt... based on experience, that's code for.. " I'd like another little project for you to do once you have all you other projects done... "   
thing is I could put it back in the basement and it would get forgotten for another 10 yrs! LOL  Maybe I'll just put it down there, wait a month, and then covertly sell it... 

thanks again for your help guys!
BnB

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Deacon's Bench...what is a FMV?

« on: April 29, 2012, 06:51:33 am »

...and some more pics. You can see in the one pic that the arm on the broken leg has come loose at the joint and has to be repaired. Fortunately my father is a very talented craftsman when it comes to wood and has a full wood shop with every tool I would need to fully repair this. I'm just not sure if it's worth the time and effort...to me.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Deacon's Bench...what is a FMV?

« on: April 29, 2012, 06:48:55 am »

Thanks for the quick reply!. To address some of the questions...in it's current state it is not safe for use. It does have a bad case of the 'shimmies' and the arms are coming loose at the joints. I'm not sure if it's a result of age/abuse  or the fact that it looks like who ever stripped the paint used a chemical stripper and as a result  a lot of the joints are now loose. Probably a combination of the two.  The one front leg looks like it was made out of a laminated  piece of wood (you can see the joint line indicated by the arrow in one of the pics). Unfortunately on the bottom section of that leg the front section has fallen off. I realize that the real 'antique' potential of this piece is long gone. My 'plan' was to create a template of the good front leg and use my father's wood shop to create the missing piece from the other leg. IMO, to be functional, this piece would have to be carefully dis-assembled, cleaned up and reassembled with all the loose/broken joints reglued. joints.

Heres' some more pics..

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Antique Questions Forum / Deacon's Bench...what is a FMV?

« on: April 28, 2012, 04:57:56 pm »

Hi Everyone,
 New member here. I have a deacon's Bench that has been sitting around for quite some time now. I had plans of refinishing it but as often is the case, life got in the way of those plans so now I am just trying to clear out this and some of the other clutter. I figured I could spend a week researching the FMV (fair market value) of this piece of could just come here and ask the experts
 Any background info would be nice as well. if more pics are needed just let me know.
Thanks in advance,
 B and B