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As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

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As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Cabinetman » 16 Oct 2020, 15:11

As promised on my initial post this is a visitor book stand for my local Arts and heritage centre, which you may have seen before it was on a program that Sarah Beanie did on community buildings/renovations. There were four? originally, and as far as I know this is the only one still going, we all work quite hard to keep it that way.
The second photograph is of the front of the building and shows the inspiration for the design of the piece.
The actual design came to me in a flash in about five minutes of being asked, it is laminated and is made from European oak and mahogany. Ian



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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Cabinetman » 16 Oct 2020, 15:14

And I thought I had done so well working out how to put the photos up. Oh well you’ll just have to turn your head slightly haha
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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Malc2098 » 16 Oct 2020, 16:38

Nice.
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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Andyp » 16 Oct 2020, 17:30

Cabinetman wrote:And I thought I had done so well working out how to put the photos up. Oh well you’ll just have to turn your head slightly haha


Oh that is classy. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Cabinetman » 16 Oct 2020, 17:57

Thanks Andy, yes it was an iPhone, pesky things.
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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Mike G » 16 Oct 2020, 18:55

My goodness, that's fine. One stumbling granny and you'll get commissioned for a re-build. It could be a good money earner :lol: :lol: It's lovely work, though.

I designed a garden wall for a cottage on a sharp bend in a country lane, and it gets rammed most winters. The builder who built it gets to rebuild it pretty regularly, and the insurance rates for the work are pretty healthy.
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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Cabinetman » 16 Oct 2020, 19:35

Thanks Mike, thankfully no stumbling grannies, it’s now 10? Years old.
Nice work for the builder!
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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Rod » 16 Oct 2020, 22:07

Nice work and with those arches stronger than it looks


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Postby TrimTheKing » 16 Oct 2020, 23:44

Beautiful! Love that and you can see the inspiration.

Thanks for sharing.
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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby fiveeyes » 17 Oct 2020, 01:24

I agree, that is nicely done.
Perhaps a bit on the joinery. TIA 5
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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Mike G » 17 Oct 2020, 07:21

Think of the difficulty of the final clean up on this job. The 4 arches will have been made individually first, glued up and cleaned up a bit. Then, the problem starts. After being trimmed to a final length they would then be glued together, and the whole thing becomes a big weak 3D object. Running a plane along the join would be really difficult, especially on the outside 2 faces, because of the difficulty in sitting it on a flat surface, and the lack of an end to rest up against a stop. I think I would have used a scraper for much of it, but that's not trouble-free on narrow pieces. The more you think about it, the more difficult it becomes!
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Postby Cabinetman » 17 Oct 2020, 11:00

Thank you for all your nice comments gentlemen, yes it was a bit of a challenge, when I laminate I always hand plane all the strips paying particular attention to the outside two, and when it is glued up between two formers there is often very little to be done on those outside sides, I seem to remember that after I had got most of the glue off from the laminated edge I put them through the thicknesser. The one time that I steam bent a piece of wood I took the trouble to plane the inside face prior to steaming – that’s really paid off and I will do it again.
A mistake some people make when making the former is to make just one cut in which ever piece of material they are making the former from. In actual fact they should have two lines drawn indicating the thickness of the final piece they are making, that way the glue lines are very small indeed. Ian
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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Cabinetman » 17 Oct 2020, 11:14

I’m sorry I didn’t take any pictures when I was making it, I do now when I make something. This is a close-up shot and also a picture of a music stand base.
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Re: As promised, pictures of one of my favourite pieces

Postby Rod » 17 Oct 2020, 12:23

Very graceful, super work

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