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21st October 2012, 12:08 PM #61GOLD MEMBER
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One solution to the question ' Should screw heads be aligned " would be to use holey head posidrive screws and the little plastic plug that covers the head of the screw
but to use that on WW's Windsor Chair ??
I've just become an optimist . Iv'e made a 25 year plan -oopps I've had a few birthdays - better make that a 20 year plan
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24th October 2012, 11:19 AM #62Jim
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Oh dear Peter you used two P words. It'll be pistols for two if you're not careful.
Cheers,
Jim
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24th October 2012, 11:41 AM #63
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26th October 2012, 04:12 PM #64
A Double Bow Windsor Chair - Part Eight
A great number of eighteenth-century Windsor chairs were painted green; known as 'forest' chairs. The hues of green these chairs were painted varied from marine grey-greens to leafy yellow-greens though due to the composition of the paints, many chairs would now be unrecognisable to their makers, having darkened considerably; or indeed, been subsequently darkly varnished.
Fig. 1. The colour of envy.
Many people would be unaware their Windsors were ever painted at all as some paints, light on binders, tended to be somewhat fugitive. Other chairs may have latterly succumbed to chemical or mechanical stripping at the hands of misguided restorers or during the stripped-pine years of the sixties and seventies.
Like discovering fragments of centuries-old paint behind layers of wallpaper and scrim during a house renovation, espying a hint of green paint masked by layers of varnish and wax on an eighteenth-century Windsor chair is testament to its age and offers a glimpse into its early existence.
The fugacious green paint in fig. 1 was intended both to confront and to demonstrate how some early forest chairs might have appeared when newly painted. Paint remnants like those in figs. 2 and 3 are often the only visible indication that a chair was ever painted.
Fig. 2. Residual paint on front of saddle.
Fig. 3. Paint trapped in timber's figure.
Fig. 4. Wellard displaying the usual disdain for my efforts.
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I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
Regards, Woodwould.
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26th October 2012, 04:20 PM #65
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26th October 2012, 04:50 PM #66Jim
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Beautiful though I was taken aback when I saw the green. Thank god it was fugacious. It reminds me of the Greeks. The starkly white statues we see today are nothing like the ones they saw - painted clothes and eyes.
cheers,
Jim
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26th October 2012, 05:19 PM #67GOLD MEMBER
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I've just become an optimist . Iv'e made a 25 year plan -oopps I've had a few birthdays - better make that a 20 year plan
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26th October 2012, 05:28 PM #68
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26th October 2012, 05:57 PM #69Skwair2rownd
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So?? Wots wrong with a lime green windsor chair??
'Do me one as a flat pack WW and I will gladly assemble it and paint, and then place it on my soon to be finished deck!
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27th October 2012, 02:54 PM #70
Lovely. The effect is quite interesting to produce in one piece.
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23rd June 2013, 10:32 PM #71
what an incredible piece of work WoodWould, I always enjoy reading your threads and admiring the outstanding quality of your work
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24th June 2013, 09:48 AM #72SENIOR MEMBER
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What happend to wouldwood, does he still post projects here?
I have noticed he still posts on his blog but not here anymore.
joez
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