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Good Morning Polly,

I'm not John but I would recommend that you look at Renovator's Supply and/or places like it. Start with http:

They have two or three different "divisi> We need some adult supervision. DH and I have a handsome old oak cabinet

Here are a couple of places you could look. See if you could find something that would work and even if you can't match the piece that was missing exactly, you could replace all of the pulls with something that would look appropriate. Renovators supply is a good source also, as stated above. From your description, you should e able to choose something that will work that you won't be able to tell the difference.

John

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Now I'm going to browse around the sites that John recommended.

Rita L.

Rita > Good Morning Polly,

Terrific. Thank you both so much. The cabinet is such a beauty - it has, golly, I don't know what it's called but the doors are like a roll-top desk. Except, of course, the roll is not top to bottom but left to right. (Did you make it through that?) DH uses it as a home for his Bose sound system. We will enjoy searching all the great places you have found. Polly

Here are a couple of places you could look. See if you could find something that would work and even if you can't match the piece that was missing exactly, you could replace all of the pulls with something that would look appropriate. Renovators supply is a good source also, as stated above. From your description, you should e able to choose something that will work that you won't be able to tell the difference.

John

That is called a Tambour door. When it is on a roll top desk, it is called a Tambour roll top desk.

John

Thank you, John. I am learning the language of wood and it is fascinating. You would love the table we have. It is just whatever an ordinary round oak table measures - but it has an interesting system beneath the top that will open it out long enough to insert a door instead of a couple of leaves; sort of like interlocking fingers. I haven't been tempted to feed a gang that big but the table could seat a lot of folks. Polly

That is called a Tambour door. When it is on a roll top desk, it is called a Tambour roll top desk.

John

I have my grandmother's square oak table. It's 42" square without any leaves, but has 5 12" leaves, so max size is 102" long. It's really nice for basting big quilts. Grandpa & Grandma had 12 kids, so they needed a big table :) They were married in Nov. 1907, so I figure the table is about 100 years old.

Julia in MN

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Polly Esther wrote:

Can someone buy a replacement tambour door? Debra in VA See my quilts at:

Not likely. But one can be made. What is needed is the appropriate number of strips of wood about 1" wide and as long as needed to fill the space of the door/desk opening. Then these strips are placed close together and laid on top of a piece of canvas and glued to that piece of canvas and then left to dry. The next thing would be to stain and finish the completed sandwich of fabric and wood, and install it in the groove that houses it in the piece of furniture. The fabric allows the wood to roll up into a small circle as it transits the groove within the piece of furniture. thereby becoming a disappearing door or roll top. I picked up a kitchen hutch, many years ago, that was in pieces at a garage sale, and restored it, using that method and it turned out nicely. This project is not for the ranks of the tool challenged, but if anybody has any facility with hobby woodworking it should be well within their grasp. If anybody would like more info they can e-mail me privately.

John

That sounds like an interesting table. It probably was used for large family gatherings and might have been custom made. I have not seen one that fitted a single piece of wood that measured the equivalent of a door. They are mostly made with leaves of varying numbers to allow for variations of space and versatility. But if you had the children and all the grandkids over on a regular basis, it would solve the problem of who has to sit at the card table with the kids.

John

If you find one of those reproduction Sears Roebuck catalogs that are around in bookstores, you will see pictures of just such tables with the price that will amaze you. A lot of that sort of thing was made in Grand Rapids Michigan, out of Oak and sold through Sears mail order. That is how the small town customer furnished their houses in the latest style. Just order it and then in a few weeks go down to the REA depot at the train station with a horse and wagon and drag it home. The precursor to online commerce.

John

Noooo, John. Different kind of family here. The winner is the one who gets to sit with the grandkids. They have a lot more fun and never mention their arthritis or the price of gasoline. Polly

"John" That sounds like an interesting table. It probably was used for large family gatherings and might have been custom made. I have not seen one that fitted a single piece of wood that measured the equivalent of a door. They are mostly made with leaves of varying numbers to allow for variations of space and versatility. But if you had the children and all the grandkids over on a regular basis, it would solve the problem of who has to sit at the card table with the kids.