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xoxoxoBruce 10-24-2016 10:57 AM

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.

glatt 10-24-2016 11:03 AM

I think we're saying the same thing.

xoxoxoBruce 10-24-2016 11:59 PM

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Rosebud Rosewood...

xoxoxoBruce 10-25-2016 08:32 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce 10-28-2016 04:23 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce 10-29-2016 10:13 PM

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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.

Gravdigr 10-30-2016 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 972212)
Now you can be in a Lion or a Tiger bed...

Fixed it.

xoxoxoBruce 11-01-2016 09:38 PM

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Oh my poor shins... :eek:

Happy Monkey 11-01-2016 09:51 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce 11-01-2016 10:09 PM

Yeah, I remember yours, very cool.

glatt 11-02-2016 07:22 AM

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.

Gravdigr 11-02-2016 01:41 PM

Easy to break down and move. No fasteners.

You could prolly make it work without the projections.

xoxoxoBruce 11-02-2016 02:19 PM

Yes, Happy Monkey did.

Happy Monkey 11-02-2016 02:34 PM

Not without fasteners, though. (linky)

xoxoxoBruce 11-04-2016 05:58 PM

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More cool stairs...

Happy Monkey 11-04-2016 06:26 PM

Nice!

classicman 11-05-2016 12:28 PM

Wow!

xoxoxoBruce 11-06-2016 10:14 PM

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Or you could just use a ladder.

xoxoxoBruce 11-07-2016 08:45 PM

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

glatt 11-08-2016 07:18 AM

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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.

glatt 11-08-2016 07:20 AM

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

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Clodfobble 11-08-2016 10:08 AM

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.

footfootfoot 11-08-2016 11:05 AM

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.

xoxoxoBruce 11-08-2016 12:54 PM

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.

xoxoxoBruce 11-10-2016 04:01 PM

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Shelves to can use safely...

xoxoxoBruce 11-11-2016 04:49 PM

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Hell no, not in my house. :headshake

fargon 11-14-2016 08:22 AM

Not in mine either.

Happy Monkey 11-14-2016 12:25 PM

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

Gravdigr 11-14-2016 02:41 PM

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.

Gravdigr 11-14-2016 02:44 PM

Otherwise, no.

footfootfoot 11-14-2016 05:07 PM

The unholy spawn of art and craft

xoxoxoBruce 11-14-2016 05:20 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce 11-16-2016 03:45 PM

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Here's a project for you knapper wannabes.

Gravdigr 11-17-2016 01:43 PM

I like that gate.

I love that arrowhead.

classicman 11-17-2016 03:19 PM

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

footfootfoot 11-17-2016 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 973815)
Here's a projectile for you knapper wannabes.

FTFY

classicman 11-17-2016 03:51 PM

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Hand carved Buffet, Circa 1890

footfootfoot 11-17-2016 04:12 PM

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

(too obscure)

xoxoxoBruce 11-18-2016 08:41 PM

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If you have a view, maximize it.

footfootfoot 11-18-2016 08:48 PM

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

BigV 11-19-2016 03:06 PM

A place to store your dramamine?

xoxoxoBruce 11-19-2016 08:07 PM

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Cabinets for speakers or whatever...

xoxoxoBruce 11-20-2016 08:25 PM

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Maybe a bookcase...

xoxoxoBruce 11-21-2016 02:57 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce 11-22-2016 07:42 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce 11-23-2016 11:53 AM

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

glatt 11-23-2016 11:56 AM

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

Griff 11-23-2016 12:16 PM

gorgeous

xoxoxoBruce 11-25-2016 05:47 PM

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

Happy Monkey 11-26-2016 01:50 PM

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

Gravdigr 11-26-2016 01:57 PM

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.

Happy Monkey 11-26-2016 02:02 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce 11-26-2016 02:30 PM

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

classicman 11-28-2016 10:38 AM

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Here is one from the masons in RI.

xoxoxoBruce 11-28-2016 01:24 PM

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

Gravdigr 11-28-2016 02:14 PM

Wtf is up with the horns?:eyebrow:

xoxoxoBruce 11-28-2016 03:42 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce 11-28-2016 04:11 PM

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

BigV 11-28-2016 09:00 PM

that bench *gives* me wood.

xoxoxoBruce 11-29-2016 09:01 PM

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


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