Hand carved/painted tables- search hit paydirt BIGTIME!
by casamanzana 
, Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 22:25 (430 days ago)
A month ago I posted a request for where to find carved-hand painted tables and posted a pix of my neighbors table as an example....maybe you remember. Of the 3-4 replys it was "I WANT ONE TOO" but no help in the search. WELL...I joined a Michoacán message board and posted the same question....BINGO! I had a number of replies all stating these tables came from a little village 15 minutes to the east of Patzcuaro called Cuanajo. The whole village is about wood furniture. Roughly, four seaters are about 6-7 hundred bucks and 6 seaters are about 8-ish $. This place is SO fun!!
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Tomorrow we go back after robbing the bank...I think we are going to go for the last one.
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After shopping all day, my guess is that we will rob a bank and end up buying the last table photo tomorrow.
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Hand carved/painted tables- search hit paydirt BIGTIME!
by Timmac , Steilacoom, WA, Thursday, March 22, 2012, 00:40 (430 days ago) @ casamanzana
We found that village on a side trip from Morelia after we went to see the butterflies. Unfortunately, none of the ones we saw would work. Although I was drawn to the bright colors, I think they would be a little tiresome after a while. I was hoping to find something exactly like you showed in your first picture, that had more "restrained" colors.
FWIW there is a line of shops on the road to the lake in Patzçuaro. They look very "rustic" on the outside but many of them have similar tables.
Hand carved/painted tables- search hit paydirt BIGTIME!
by frostbite 
, Anchorage AK, Thursday, March 22, 2012, 07:57 (429 days ago) @ Timmac
We went to Juanajo looking for a dining table and chairs (not carved and painted) a few years ago. Most workshops were closed - supposedly because the workers were up North working in the fields - but one had exactly what we were looking for. We told the owner that we'd like to buy the set and asked if he could arrange for transportation to Zihua. The answer was "NO". Business must be good in Juanajo. We finally found what we needed in Zihua. We did enjoy our visit to Patzcuaro and Morelia, though.
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Protection Against Cracking & Splitting
I wish I had slathered on Verathane after buying a table for 4.
Kiln dried pine won't dry out and split as easily as air dried, but how do you tell the difference if kiln dried pine furniture can be had at all?
Live & Learn I Guess 
Hand carved/painted tables- search hit paydirt BIGTIME!
by Linda from Canada , Zihua and Grand Marais, Manitoba, Thursday, March 22, 2012, 08:00 (429 days ago) @ casamanzana
You will find the same sort of stuff in Quiroga..also just outside of Patzcuaro.
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