Woodbloke
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I've been decorating the lounge and had to empty the overstuffed bookcase and in doing so came across an old photo album dating from the very late 90's when I was making stuff for David Linley (DLF), but the first pic:
...dates from 1975, showing a pair of jewellery boxes. The right hand one was the first major project I ever attempted, made in a week at a Summer School on Barry Island (I remember seeing the acres of rusty locos, now thankfully restored) The tutor was Lon Kettless from Shoreditch and he insisted that the only jointing had to be secret mitres, with a raised panelled lid, box wood stringing, plinth and sycamore lining; all made entirely without the use of any machine tools if I recollect.
The next pic is a bench thingie in mahogany with ABW roundels:
...followed by a couple of pics of some pedestal bases for a dining room table. I turned out the bases (American Black Walnut veneer over mdf cores):
The next three pics are of a console table in Oak with a Burr Oak top etc and Ebony stringing:
The next one is a Dumb Waiter in Mahogany with Satinwood stringing and lipping with an 'upstand' which I have no idea how I made:
The final pic is a pair of huge lamp stands in Sycamore, inlaid with Ebony lines:
I seem to recollect I made the bases on this job and someone else did the other bits. Note the 'shop; it was an old sugar warehouse in Stalbride, Dorset, with a vast cathedral like interior, with no insulation and virtually no heating. One of the other lads can be spotted in the last pic behind the lamp standards. Nothing was ever finished in the 'shop but went off to be sprayed with a couple of coats of acid catalyst lacquer. Happy days! - Rob
Edit: Linners required an almost razor arris on his stuff and the only thing we were allowed to do was a single pass with a bit of worn 320g paper! It was a standing joke that a complementary packet of sticking plasters should be supplied with each piece.
...dates from 1975, showing a pair of jewellery boxes. The right hand one was the first major project I ever attempted, made in a week at a Summer School on Barry Island (I remember seeing the acres of rusty locos, now thankfully restored) The tutor was Lon Kettless from Shoreditch and he insisted that the only jointing had to be secret mitres, with a raised panelled lid, box wood stringing, plinth and sycamore lining; all made entirely without the use of any machine tools if I recollect.
The next pic is a bench thingie in mahogany with ABW roundels:
...followed by a couple of pics of some pedestal bases for a dining room table. I turned out the bases (American Black Walnut veneer over mdf cores):
The next three pics are of a console table in Oak with a Burr Oak top etc and Ebony stringing:
The next one is a Dumb Waiter in Mahogany with Satinwood stringing and lipping with an 'upstand' which I have no idea how I made:
The final pic is a pair of huge lamp stands in Sycamore, inlaid with Ebony lines:
I seem to recollect I made the bases on this job and someone else did the other bits. Note the 'shop; it was an old sugar warehouse in Stalbride, Dorset, with a vast cathedral like interior, with no insulation and virtually no heating. One of the other lads can be spotted in the last pic behind the lamp standards. Nothing was ever finished in the 'shop but went off to be sprayed with a couple of coats of acid catalyst lacquer. Happy days! - Rob
Edit: Linners required an almost razor arris on his stuff and the only thing we were allowed to do was a single pass with a bit of worn 320g paper! It was a standing joke that a complementary packet of sticking plasters should be supplied with each piece.
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