Pew Wrestling

Pew Wrestling is:

a. when you have to sit next to your brother in church

b. when you end up accidentally sitting in ‘someone else’s‘ spot at church

c. when you buy a pew, so you can turn it into banquet seating

…and the answer is!!!!!

Pews for sale only $100, that came out of a Baptist church in Yakima. We had a plan..sort of. I mean, how hard could it be? Someone at My Loving Spouse’s work said, “It could not be done.” (Which only makes me want to prove him wrong!) Wrong, wrong, wrong! I now call him, “Jim Of Little Faith”.

Jim Of Little Faith was right about one thing, it was not easy.

‘We’ (which really means My Loving Spouse’) gets it cut where we want it. Now he must move one of the legs, so both lengths have two legs to sit on.

The biggest problem is that the wood was warped. We imagined some big old Baptist sitting in the same spot week after week, leaning back in that old pew really hard, and once the wood was cut everything relaxed!

Between the angle cut and keeping our ‘new’ banquet square, the whole project was quite a challenge.

We attach some padded pieces to the legs to prevent scratching the floor.

Then we wrestle the two pew pieces and screw in place the two seats. With the seats secure, we try once again to align the seat backs.

“Let’s just take a tad more off”, I say…

Then we pull and push and wrestle it again and hold it just right as we quickly get a few screws into the seat backs.

Ta da!

The corner is great! However, not all the legs are actually on the floor. I told you the wood was a bit warped. We put the pew in place and then screw the legs to the floor!

This ensures that all four legs stay where they are meant to be AND that in the next Hide n’ Seek game with THE Grands, the new very best hiding place actually stays in place.

A little sanding, a little wood puddy, a little varnish and the new seating is in place and ready for the table to be built.

We keep one set of the communion cup holders attached in the back, because….

…we are very, very blessed.

(Perhaps we will invite Jim of Little Faith over for some wine…)