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The whole thing was put together with one inch thick doll rods and glue - no metal. This table was for clay work, hand-building, coil work and the like.
By the same token I built a wedging table to work clay before it is used on the wheel. This was six 4x4 legs approximately forty inches high, with 2x6 sides inset half-way into the legs, which sided the bed, bottomed by 2x12 planks to contain the plaster, and three 2x12s inset half-way into the legs for the under shelf. Into the bed I poured five inches of USG casting plaster with blue dye chips, which at the time was the best there was. This I bought I think it was called San Francisco Materials at 23rd and Shotwell streets right across from Norman's Hardware. Again this table was built with one inch doll rods and no metal.
I also built a self-standing portable shelf complex for pots. This was four 4x12 up-rights with 2x12 shelves approximately four feet across. The thing stood about nine feet tall and was maybe twelve feet wide. All this stuff weighed a ton but it was solid and beautiful to look at. I rounded all the corners to various degrees where appropriate and stained all dark oak. Some how they got moved over to the shop on San Jose which was completely empty otherwise. The whole bottom floor was wide open with no interior separator walls; had big bay windows in the front with glass door. Trouble was - about all we ever did with it was bring Ice Cream Sunday's over from Mitchell's, and eat them there.
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