Thread: A George I Walnut Side Table

Originally Posted by Woodwould

Your emphasis was on "sad" and I reiterate; what's sad about it? If you're going to make such statements, at least have the spinal fortitude to defend them. If you don't, then the operative word (sad) reflects back on you! You have a long record of sniping, cowardice and inserting happy-faced smilies to detract from your real intent, so I suspect you won't come clean on this occasion either.

Gee where did that come from? My reference to sad was, it would be good to see you do a WIP of a contemporary piece once instead of your preferred style given you ability and quality workmanship. No need to bite my head off.

Originally Posted by Lignum

Gee where did that come from? My reference to sad was, it would be good to see you do a WIP of a contemporary piece once instead of your preferred style given you ability and quality workmanship. No need to bite my head off.

There are others on the forum like Peter36, Claw Hama et al who can do contemporary furniture far more justice than I ever could, so I'll leave them to bear that candle. I can admire others' workmanship in contemporary furniture, but personally, I get no enjoyment from making it.

Originally Posted by Lignum

Gee where did that come from? My reference to sad was, it would be good to see you do a WIP of a contemporary piece once instead of your preferred style given you ability and quality workmanship. No need to bite my head off.

Your request is disrespectful. It is like asking Vladimir Ashkenazy to play honky-tonk. He could do it, I'm sure, but he doesn't want to. It isn't what he likes to do and suggesting that there is something disappointing because someone doesn't share your taste is really setting your taste as superior to the other person's.

Far be it for me to ignore a good dust-up
But, I've actually got an on-topic question.
Would the "babies - bum" corners have been to avoid damage to 75cm tall toddlers??
My olds had a Jacobean style dining table, and its sharp corners damaged three generations of Children/grand-children/great grand children and visiting rug-rat toddlers with eye wounds, knocked out teeth and forehead dents.
Just wondering??

Can you please post the method you will use to complete the Baby's Bum Corners WW?
I am interested in how the 'crisp crease' for want of a better term between the cheeks will be achieved I imagine you will cobble together a tool to scrape it out.

Originally Posted by watson

Far be it for me to ignore a good dust-up
But, I've actually got an on-topic question.
Would the "babies - bum" corners have been to avoid damage to 75cm tall toddlers??
My olds had a Jacobean style dining table, and its sharp corners damaged three generations of Children/grand-children/great grand children and visiting rug-rat toddlers with eye wounds, knocked out teeth and forehead dents.
Just wondering??

It's a caring and noble thought my dear Watson, but the households of yore that would have owned such tables... and children, would also have employed a substantial governess who would have either sat on any small children or otherwise restrained them from running around the place, trying to gouge their eyes out on innocent tables.

Originally Posted by Phil Spencer

Can you please post the method you will use to complete the Baby's Bum Corners WW?
I am interested in how the 'crisp crease' for want of a better term between the cheeks will be achieved I imagine you will cobble together a tool to scrape it out.

You should know by now that I am all for simplicity () and therefore I will cut the babies' bums out with nothing grander than a coping saw. All being well, I hope to have a crack at it (pun intended) this afternoon and if I do, I will post the results.

Originally Posted by jmk89

Your request is disrespectful. It is like asking Vladimir Ashkenazy to play honky-tonk. He could do it, I'm sure, but he doesn't want to. It isn't what he likes to do and suggesting that there is something disappointing because someone doesn't share your taste is really setting your taste as superior to the other person's.

And after all, that's what Ikea is for.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

You should know by now that I am all for simplicity () and therefore I will cut the babies' bums out with nothing grander than a coping saw. All being well, I hope to have a crack at it (pun intended) this afternoon and if I do, I will post the results.

Looking forward to seeing your crack !!

Originally Posted by Phil Spencer

Looking forward to seeing your crack !!

Sorry Phil, I think I may have misinterpreted your earlier question. The profile of the baby's bum corner is cut out with a saw, but the moulding up to, and partially around each bum cheek is done with a scratch stock as per normal. Completing the moulding right into the sheough is carried out with carving chisels.

The positioning of the Walnut corner blocks at 45° to the front edge of the top means I can carve the final reaches of each cheek without encountering end grain which makes life a little easier.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

It's far more taxing and rewarding to faithfully and accurately reproduce an artifact than it is to create a new work. There's no challenge for me in making new furniture. Each to his own.

Originally Posted by Lignum

Very sad, but as you say, each to their own.


Will look forward to this copy though. Front row seat as the others have said

Lignum.Woodwould is making antiques for generation ZA and on .As we now have generation Y I am assuming that the sequence will continue with ZA

Originally Posted by Woodwould

Sorry Phil, I think I may have misinterpreted your earlier question. The profile of the baby's bum corner is cut out with a saw, but the moulding up to, and partially around each bum cheek is done with a scratch stock as per normal. Completing the moulding right into the sheough is carried out with carving chisels.

The positioning of the Walnut corner blocks at 45° to the front edge of the top means I can carve the final reaches of each cheek without encountering end grain which makes life a little easier.

Wot . Stick your chisel in the baby's ..........

Jeez. A bloke can't afford to not look in for long. I nearly missed all the fun.

Is Vladimir Ashkenarzy still tickling the Ivories!

Some reading that I went through, but still reading.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

There are others on the forum like Peter36, Claw Hama et al who can do contemporary furniture far more justice than I ever could, so I'll leave them to bear that candle. I can admire others' workmanship in contemporary furniture, but personally, I get no enjoyment from making it.

Have to admit i haven't made a thing for many years now but my greatest joy always came from restoration and faithful reproduction work. Much more of a challenge especially when you have to do it all for yourself. I have some terrific scratch stocks made specifically to do a couple of feet or moulding that would have taken weeks and many, many hundreds dollars to reproduce with modern methods, reproducing carvings to look like they were the originals and not something freshly carved, turning sections on a pole lathe or treadle lathe because that's what they were originally done on, matching timber grain and colours, by sourcing timber from the same time period and area, polishing to look like a well preserved but aged piece, instead of a nice shiny new thing, etc, etc, etc.

The challenge, the sheer frustration, the pleasure, the excitement, and the pure joy is what it's all about with this kind of work. I liked making new pieces that had something of me in them but I really loved the other with a passion when I was doing it.

Cheers - Neil