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    Quote Originally Posted by crowie View Post
    i hope Shane was on hand to direct the traffic

    Well, I certainly wasn’t in need of Andy to control any other overexcited inmates !
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    It’s currently held together with ‘chewing gum and fencing wire’ but it’s enough to make the following decisions;
    • The chatoyance of Australian red cedar is NOT suited to the ‘honesty of material’ required by arts and crafts style. All of the timber on the face of the dresser came from the same plank! The pieces used horizontally reflect the light differently to the pieces vertically and so appear MUCH lighter. It’s not as obvious in real life though, and seems to be exaggerated by even non-flash photography?
    • To ‘hide/soften/run from the effect of the chatoyance, I’ve decided to use these 2 doors as the end panels and will complete the other 2 doors with simple geometric leadlight panels
    • This arrangement of tiles with timber-grained buttresses seems to suit the design best and I’m seriously looking at placing 2 of the remaining 75 x 75 plain green tiles vertically separated as inserts in to the vertical panel between the cabinet doors?

    It’s just as well the bloke who originally commissioned the dresser has dropped out because it no longer looks anything like the original sketches ..... but I do like it
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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    .....[*]The chatoyance of Australian red cedar is NOT suited to the ‘honesty of material’ required by arts and crafts style.....
    Have to agree with that sentiment, Fletty. I reckon Cedar is fine on "age of Mahogany" style pieces, but somehow Arts & Crafts just has to be Oak or an oak-like substitute. I think northern Silky Oak makes a good substitute for th Northern Hemisphere Oaks & I guess the Qld furniture-makers thought so, too, as they used it extensively in the local versions of Arts & Crafts & Art Deco funiture in the 20s & 30s.

    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    .....This arrangement of tiles with timber-grained buttresses seems to suit the design best and I’m seriously looking at placing 2 of the remaining 75 x 75 plain green tiles vertically separated as inserts in to the vertical panel between the cabinet doors?......
    Hmmm, I think you should try it with blutac first. I fear that with the leadlight doors, it might look too tizzy .....

    Just sayin' ....
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    Thanks Ian. I realised, just after sending my last post, that ‘something’ was missing from the creative process............ fine shiraz!

    A half bottle of Magnificat later and I’ve come up with the following....

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    ... Heavens only knows what I’ll come up with by the end of the bottle ..... although probably just a headache !

    It seems more balanced that the backing board NOT be stepped, the tiles spread the full width and it be capped with a strip of red cedar mimicking the edge of the marble? The simple leadlight door picks up its design cue from the PLANE not the PATTERNED tiles?

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    Not as overwhelming as I imagined when you described this arrangement.

    Thinking about it, any problem is entirely in my mind. Somewhere back a post or three, you mentioned "Arts & Crafts", which immediately conjured up a look & style in my mind, that you may never have set out to emulate. It's dangerous to put labels on what is essentially an original design, for example, I can see elements of late Victoriana in the Cedar & marble bits, while the tiles would be more 'Art nouveau'. They are styles that were all more or less contemporaneous, & you'd be far from the first bloke to do a bit of blending.

    So I'll just keep my big mouth shut & trust in your judgement and the inspirational power of Shiraz (but please don't rearrange those tiles when the inspiration is at its peak - wait 'til the sober light of morning assists your perspective!)

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    I’ve been away for a while but got back to the shed today. The trauma of the broken tiles is now officially behind me...

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    The doors are only propped in place, the tile framing is complete but not fixed and the differences in gloss and colour are because of the different stages of finishing. The design has slowly settled on leadlight doors as shown in the mark-up below...

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    I wish NOW that I had made it from a harder timber such as rosewood? Any job that has been in the shed this long WILL get knocked and Australian red cedar shows the evidence of every blow!

    Im thinking of making a simplified version out of silky oak and black marble ..........
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    For my money Alan, it looks top shelf. Cheers Peter

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    I agree with crowie, it's a fine piece of joinery and the proportions work really well.

    In my book, every design needs a focal element to draw the eye. You already have a beautiful piece of marble coupled with very strong designs on the tiles. Even those two elements compete for attention. If you still wanted a retro look, I would place a tile at each end and put a mirror in the centre but not the same height as the tiles. IMO leadlight doors would be a bit too much. You might consider adding some stringing to the door panels and maybe the drawer fronts.

    Just a thought...
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    It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve been able to get into the shed so today was a good day. I’ve had to give up on getting a matching third push-open, soft-close drawer slide and I’m pretty disgusted with the supplier. The simple solution would be to fit a handle and use pull-open soft-close slides but that didn’t fit with the design ethic so I came up with an integral ‘grip’ which is machined into the drawer front, isn’t obtrusive...

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    ..... and works well with the new pull-open slides.
    i also fitted the remaining push-open door hinges so that I now have 5 opening cabinet doors, 3 pull-open drawers and hidden compartments galore.

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    The next major step is the leadlighting but there’s still lots of little jobs like grouting the tiles to keep me busy...

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    Off to Wood Dust tomorrow and so I put in a bit of an effort today so that the tiresome jobs won’t be waiting for me!
    I fitted the shelf in the ‘secure compartment’....

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    ..... with the lower level sized for wine, boxed and unboxed whisky and the upper level for champagne and litre bottles.
    The battens that mounted the hinges were drilled and bushed for the shelf supports and then permanently fixed in place...

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    .....but unfortunately, the profile machined into the top of the drawers wasn’t giving enough grip for at least my fat fingers, and so it was modified on the table saw...

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    The top cap was glued in place overnight and then most of the dresser received another coat of WOP.

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    The extra coats of WOP seem to be lessening the colour differences ..... and that’s a good thing!
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    Off to Wood Dust tomorrow and so I put in a bit of an effort today so that the tiresome jobs won’t be waiting for me!
    I fitted the shelf in the ‘secure compartment’....

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    ..... with the lower level sized for wine, boxed and unboxed whisky and the upper level for champagne and litre bottles.
    The battens that mounted the hinges were drilled and bushed for the shelf supports and then permanently fixed in place...

    CD49E4AC-4F31-4849-8DD9-263AA606B8EB.jpg

    .....but unfortunately, the profile machined into the top of the drawers wasn’t giving enough grip for at least my fat fingers, and so it was modified on the table saw...

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    The top cap was glued in place overnight and then most of the dresser received another coat of WOP.

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    The extra coats of WOP seem to be lessening the colour differences ..... and that’s a good thing!
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    Off to Wood Dust tomorrow
    so, will you be our "official" correspondent?
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    so, will you be our "official" correspondent?
    I shall start a new thread re ‘the usual list of suspects go to Wood Dust’ OR add our tuppence to another thread if started by other/s. So far, all good!
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    Had an exciting day today! Met up with an old mate who also did leadlighting in a previous life, checked through our old equipment and materials and then went to a fabulous leadlight supply shop in Leichhardt to replace what has been lost, terminally loaned or time-expired.......

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    ......followed by a pub lunch!

    LEADLIGHTING STARTS TOMORROW
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    So there will be a display of fine woodworking and Lead Lighting the end of November?
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