Awl --
So my local corner church ( who for the longest time donated its very nice stone wall to the asses of the local Drug Dealers and other non-taxpaying self-employed) has regular tag sales, and one of the things that didn't sell last week (and thusly got picked up off the street at midnight by yers truly), was a nice-ish Ikea-ish dining room/breakfast room table, with side extensions.
I took it for the sizable piece of wood, and under the sodium street lamp, it looked perty nice. I figgered it was particle board, but when I looked on the underside, lo and behold, it had that that butchery-block appearance of nice biscut-joined pine. What a find -- esp these days! Sheeit, I mused, it's gonna be a shame to cut this up!! Mebbe I should go back for the frame?!
So I placed it -- and a Nordic Track Xcountry skier, that also didn't sell -- in m'truck, preparing for my gloat.
So, under my shop fluorescents, it still looked perty nice, but ahm lookin anyway, lookin some more, saying, Wow, if this is pine, I haven't quite seen a finish like THIS on top.... And, where's the end/side grain???
But, but, It's GOTTA be pine, well, cuz of the underside -- right??.
Wouldn'tcha know...... They *papered the underside in butcherblock*!!! GOT ME!!!!
No doubt for the would-be "savvy" home-moaners (such as myself), who thought they'd acquired a touch of experience.
I really chuckled over that one, and promptly cut the top up.
Man, you can never ever ever relax yer consumer vigilance.
I think my new invention (right after my Bachelor sink comes out, you know, the one with urinal lip on the front, with a mini-flushometer) is going to be Particle Butcher Block, made out of particle board!
So yeah, it will be a Butcher's Block.......
Oh, on the Nordic track, not sure, but I think the wood there is oak -- which is much more useful than the exerciser itself.