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ZooMob
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14/10/2015 6:21 am  

I just picked up a Nelson Pedestal Base with some sort of homemade top on it, and would like to replace it with an appropriate, original top. It is the 21.5" version. My question is whether is there is more than one size (not height) base for these tables? Do they vary in any way other than height? That is, with my 21.5" base, can I go with wither the small or large table top?

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14/10/2015 4:52 pm  

Hi ZooMob,
The laminate top for your Nelson End Table is available in either a 17" or 28.5" diameter. All end table pedestal bases are 22.5" tall...I think.
Best,
Aunt Mark



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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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14/10/2015 5:06 pm  

Why is there a strange looking fellow with horns in an inset in that catalog/book?


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14/10/2015 5:18 pm  

I think that the horned up person is either Ricky Nelson or SDR after church. I can't decide.
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15/10/2015 8:55 am  

I blame it on Ray. Or maybe Mae. I was elsewhere that day . . .
"Manet, Monet, tippy-tippy tay tay" (J Seinfeld)


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Spanky
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15/10/2015 6:40 pm  

It's this guy, who got rid of the horns sometime between the George Nelson photoshoot and Aunt Mark getting that mirror.


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15/10/2015 6:46 pm  

80s graphics. I think they were going for Delightful Irreverence or something.
The same pedestal is used for the different tops. The diameter is the same where top attaches.
The top original to the table has a cork-like bevel and a thin birch edge that is extremely handsome.


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tktoo
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15/10/2015 7:48 pm  

mini, I'm pretty sure the core material of the tops is particle board or what the Brits call "chipboard". That said, not all particle board is created equal.


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15/10/2015 8:33 pm  

I'm quite pleased with my particle-board "masonry" . . .
I still hope to rescue particle board from the scrap-heap of "bad construction material." So I'm happy to hear that one of our better MCM designers was willing and able to expose a PB edge, all that time ago.



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Mark
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16/10/2015 3:07 am  

Dearest Spanky, you make me laugh.
oh how I wish that you that had a handsome single brother. You are a treasure. Now, I think that George and Ricky Nelson perhaps got a bit carried away with the particle board on this table. I guess it would have cost more to have asphalt or pine instead. I like all wood. I like _______. Don't forget to feed the birds.
Blazed,
Aunt Mark



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16/10/2015 3:12 am  

please note, all phillips screws located underside of particle board are aligned. It's all in the details.
Oh my glides,
Aunt Mark


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ZooMob
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16/10/2015 5:28 am  

Thanks for sharing the photos. Now I just need to find a proper top. Nothing on ebay. Hoping I can turn one up here in West Michigan in the H-M homeland.


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16/10/2015 6:09 am  

Anyone with a woodworking shop could produce a replica of the top Mark shows. If a center-point hole can be driven part-way through the chosen disc material, then a table router or even a table saw can spin a perfect disc. And for the bevel -- milled before or after a top surface has been chosen and applied -- a rig could be attached to a good table-saw fence so that the disc can be spun on a horizontal axis, in a vertical orientation, with the saw blade at the appropriate angle and the fence moved progressively closer to the blade while the disc is spun slowly by hand.
Any wood-based sheet product should be treated similarly on both faces, to prevent warpage. This is true whether a wet finish, a lamination, or veneering is contemplated. It looks to me like the Nelson top has a form of secondary plastic laminate material -- almost certainly a phenolic "backing sheet, one of our most beautiful unseen materials"-- on its underside. This would have been applied simultaneously with the face laminate, preferably with rigid glue rather than contact adhesive !
tktoo ? Leif ? Heath ?


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16/10/2015 6:58 am  

I really, really, really dislike exposed particle board. It is a personal deficiency.


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16/10/2015 7:43 am  

I don't blame you at all. How about OSB (oriented strand board) ? It's been used for a while now for finished surfaces: walls, even floors. I did a silver-painted OSB reception table for a salon a few years ago . . .
Maybe the next threshold will be exposed styrofoam ?


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