sloweather
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# Posted: 4 Apr 2018 10:29am
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A couple of years ago I posted here about our little cabin in the dingle.
http://www.small-cabin.com/forum/6_6842_0.html
We have a phone line to the house from our cabin. The Panasonic system phone I installed in there didn't fit with the cabin decor, so a few months ago, I started looking for an old wooden wall phone for it, or a newer replica wooden phone.
Nothing I found met my desires, so, ultimately, I decided to build my own. I had some antique oak salvaged from a poorly restored dresser that fell apart (top and drawer fronts). It took a lot of looking on the Internet, and some thinking and figuring to get the design and all the functionality I wanted, AND be able to make it all out of the limited wood at hand.
I bought all the antique and reproduction works and trim on-line from PHONECO Antique phone, collectible telephone, old telephone.
Here is the final project, before I installed it a couple of weeks ago.
Before anyone asks, yes, it works.  The bells ring, and if I wish to place a call, I just lift the receiver and then lift the writing shelf to reveal the concealed TouchTone pad.
And, if I need more access to our home phone system, I just open the door...
And there is the system phone.
I even wired it so that cranking the magneto rings the bells.
Doing this, I learned how to make box joints, and plunge-rout the "picture frame" around the transmitter mount.
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