They don't have to be in the wall, just abutting with steel rods or pipe into the stone work. That's not their only support, they also have the tread beneath.

I think we're saying the same thing.

Rosebud Rosewood...

If you've gat a gnarly piece of firewood that's a bitch to split, paint it.

Now you can be a Lion or a Tiger in bed...

After you've been a Lion/Tiger in the bedroom, don't beat your chest and slide down the bannister if you have this newel post.

Fixed it.

Oh my poor shins... :eek:

That is the opposite of my bed design. Shin friendliness was a primary concern of mine.

Yeah, I remember yours, very cool.

You would have to have a large room for that to work. Then you would have plenty of maneuvering space around the bed and could approach it from the sides.

In my room, I have maybe a foot on the side of my bed before you hit a bookcase. I'd be bashing my shins constantly. It would get me coming and going. Right shin on my way to bed and left shin when I'm getting up in the morning.

It looks good though.

Easy to break down and move. No fasteners.

You could prolly make it work without the projections.

Yes, Happy Monkey did.

Not without fasteners, though. (linky)

More cool stairs...

Nice!

Wow!

Or you could just use a ladder.

If your family has a musical bent, or they don't but you want them to get bent...

The bass clef legs on that bench seem really fragile where they contact the floor. I'd like to see a shot of the legs to see how the bass clef floating side dots were handled.
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I dig the bench though.

I'll be damned. It's a book case, not a bench.

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Cool! I like it better as a bookcase. A lot of the "cool because it's difficult to make" stuff in this thread is not to my taste, but I genuinely appreciate the look of that.

After I graduated with a degree in furniture design (would you like fries with that?) I was offered an informal critique with a FOAF who worked for Wendell Castle. Apart from being very helpful and insightful, he called attention to an aspect of my work that he said is pretty common especially with beginners and craft people, it is called "Woodiness."

It's marked by infatuation or even over use of different kinds of wood for the sake of different kinds of wood, sometimes gratuitously.

The music shelf, for example, is woody. From a design standpoint it makes more sense for the notes and bars to be the darker wood, like the ink on the page. As it is, it's mostly about the showing off figure of the maple.

Consider on the other hand, this piece by Ruhlmann, http://ruhlmann.info/wp-content/uplo...4/10/CB101.jpg it's made with highly figured veneer, inlaid with ivory. Yet I wouldn't call it woody. The figure is used as part of the design, the ivory accentuates the shape of the figure of the rosewood, it doesn't shout "Yo bitches, I'm ivory!" All of the elements of the design work towards the same goal.

The music bookshelf is undoubtedly cool and very well made and, for me, illustrates the difference between craft and art. And this IS the crafty DIY thread.

Ruhlmann is a damn showoff. :lol2:

I couldn't own that piece, because the elevated, spotlighted, turntable would take up too much room in my living room.

Shelves to can use safely...

Hell no, not in my house. :headshake

Not in mine either.

If I had a house, where it could dominate a room, then maybe. As it is, it would dominate my entire condo.

It would have to be opposite the front door, so the first thing visitors see is me in my white tux, petting my white cat, while chuckling evilly.

Otherwise, no.

The unholy spawn of art and craft

Now that's my kind of gate, perfect for pissing off snooty people. :lol2:

Here's a project for you knapper wannabes.

I like that gate.

I love that arrowhead.

That arrowhead is spectacular.
I'd never loose it though.

FTFY

Hand carved Buffet, Circa 1890

It probably took hundreds of hours to build that and then the food was served from the buffet in five minutes.

(too obscure)

If you have a view, maximize it.

That would make a cool medicine cabinet, mirrors instead of glass...

A place to store your dramamine?

Cabinets for speakers or whatever...

Maybe a bookcase...

Looks strong enough to have sex on... :rolleyes:

Make this sneaky device and you can shovel in the lion's share of the Asian buffet when nobody's looking...

Perhaps the first step would be to build yourself a bench for your creativity to bloom from...

You need a massive bench to support that $425 hand plane.

gorgeous

Looks like a desk, but obviously can't be....

I can picture a war map on top with little totems for the army positions and those pusher sticks.

I'm trying to figure out how they did that thing with the leg braces, the ends crossing and sticking out the leg...a bit Escher-ish.

I would guess cross laps, just hidden behind flat panels.

If you break a table leg, just melt some wood and pour a new one....

Here is one from the masons in RI.

How do they do that? Looks awfully top heavy. :eek:

Wtf is up with the horns?:eyebrow:

The bricklayers I've know were always horny. ;)

Nice, but watch your toes on the front legs. ;)

that bench *gives* me wood.

Make all those bandsaw scraps into a conversation piece. :lol: