You are sitting
with your lover; it's a lovely sidewalk table on Place du Tertre in
Montmartre. The waiter has just brought your wine, red wine, of
course. The glasses sparkle in the fading Paris sunlight. You gaze into
your lover's eyes and lean forward for a little kiss. Suddenly the
force of your elbow finds that one leg suspended off the plane of the
other three and voilà: first the seesaw down, then the
recoil up. The glass of red wine tips and spills into your lover's
lap. The deft lover, however, would have surreptitiously tested the
table upon arrival, slipping his (or her!) café shim under the
offending leg and avoided such unpleasant surprise.
Everyone has been
annoyed by a rocking restaurant table. Still you probably won't have
a cafe shim with you, but if you did, you would certainly impress
your companions. Andrew Knowlton wrote in the April 2016 issue of
bon appétit, speaking
of a Beverly Hills restaurant, “They solved the single biggest
annoyance in restaurants: wobbly tables.”
The set of six is
made of random hardwoods, hand-sanded and oiled, not hardware shims
at all! They are 1 3/4" wide and 3” long, a little smaller than a business card, and taper from 3/16” to
near zero.
A novelty perhaps,
but shims are useful: leveling furniture and pendulum clocks,
securing hammerheads, locking Hungarian shelves, etc.
Singular wooden ware + hand carved teaspoons at: FlyingCircusStudios.Etsy.com
3 comments:
Maybe that's why God made chewing gum
NB
Most likely the case, though probably not a favorite with restaurateurs. Come to think of it actually works better unchewed...a good idea!
Nice Very Awesome post about wood finishing products
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