replacing my family room hobby cabinet
This last weekend I played musical antique knock down wardrobes. I had one made of poplar that was in my family room, housing modeling tools, projects, and miscellaneous ****. A couple weekends ago we had purchased another knock down wardrobe that was made out of American Chestnut. we had originally set up the new wardrobe in my daughter's old room upstairs, But I realized that the Chestnut was closer to the color of the paneling in the family room, so last weekend I emptied out the wardrobe in the family room, disassembled both cabinets and swapped them out.
The poplar wardrobe had been built originally with shelves on one side, and the other side was open to hold hanging clothes. Someone had altered it though, and added shelves on the open side as well. Up in my daughters room we were able to make a nice setup of some of my daughters large dolls and furniture on the large shelves of the poplar . The Chestnut wardrobe was originally open for hanging clothing , but the previous owner, whose hobby was looking for civil war relics with a metal detector, had outfitted it with glass shelves to show off his collection.. He was retiring, and moving to Orange Beach ALa., had sold most of his collection, and did not have room for the wardrobe in his next home.
The Chestnut wardrobe looks better in my family room, and the glass shelves are a little better set up for my hobby stuff, and I'm hopefully going to get the stuff in there a little better organized. I'd like to have room in there for some project trays, so I could move different project trays on and off my work bench, keeping my workbench more open for business.
Some of my current business is the M& N G RPO car. While sorting through the stuff in the cabinet, I found one truck matching the MDC truck used on the M & N G cars. I had used this truck as a test truck for track work. unfortunately best I can figure this truck was from a project I worked on 40 years ago, and the chances of finding the other matching truck are slim to none. Tyler's Whiskey River Railroad came through though, and provided me with a matching truck, which will help me greatly with this project, which is already complicated by not having a under body casting and roof to work with. but now I have two trucks I can proceed and see what happens