[Zeke]

I was filmed in some scenes shot many times over for a 'reel' to be pitched to Netflix. I seriously doubt anything will come of it. The show, if it came to be, would be along the lines of "American Pickers." However, where AP left off is where this show begins — who buys this stuff and why?

The featured item for the reel (precursor to a pilot) involved a mid 1800's Texas or OK farm table 12 feet long with a lot of character being old growth wide plank pine. Nice and thick too, you don't buy this kind of lumber these days. Put together with square pegs in the tenons.

I was the "Roger" to what Wayne Carini did flipping cars. The old man that can fix anything. Well, I guess I am the old fart that can fix anything and make it look like it wasn't touched. Even in "Chasing Classic Cars." they didn't show anything about the end buyer. There can be more human interest if you follow the story a little further. This show would do that.

The buyer was a decorator that prefers to be called a designer that was going to use this in a Palos Verdes Peninsula (CA) home of sizable scale. It would have to be to accomodate a 12' table. I waxed this thing with a floor buffer!

I think the show had potential but the director wasn't that bright, IMO. If you follow the trail (literally the money) on some antique items the story can be interesting. Think of Tabs, the man of wealth and taste, telling all WRT great finds, what they represent, and what became of them. Enter interesting people of all walks of life stage left.

IDT this director had the vision. Had I done this, I would have brought out a little history of Western farm furniture, how it was used and why it got worn the way it did (think butcher blocks) and then the purchase, sale, and repurpose of the piece.

One dealer I work for regularly picks TX, OK and NE (and anywhere else a lead may take him) and buys anything Americana. He has college pennants, coboy hats, blankets and fabrics, and of course, lots of old pine furniture. Anything having to do with an old road house, signage, architectural elements, wall hangers like gold leaf mirrors (real stuff, not repros), gaming tables, you name it, they fight over it to get it to CA.

I would have thought that the pine furniture ship had sailed, but with all this barn door for an interior door fad going on, this stuff is selling like hotcakes. Reclaimed wood dealers are prospering.

Why all of this phenomena is going on is a subject for another thread.