Nothing wrong with that. You make them really well. Why not make a couple per year and sell them? You could sell them for full price, or just cover your materials and shipping. Lotsa options and most importantly you'll enjoy yourself immensely!
Fred
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Nothing wrong with that. You make them really well. Why not make a couple per year and sell them? You could sell them for full price, or just cover your materials and shipping. Lotsa options and most importantly you'll enjoy yourself immensely!
Fred
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Thanks Fred,Originally Posted by Frederick Skelly
You are too kind.
I may do just what you suggest for no other reason than I have no room for another bench in my shop and the ones there do not need replacing. I expect I'll make a woodstore run this week, I'm thinking small, light, and portable, Poplar base with a Beech slab and of course a Lake Erie screw for the leg vise. I'm already getting a sparkle in my eye.
The other thing I need to make is a slightly prettier shave horse.
ken
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Remember to post build pics for all of us to enjoy along with you!
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
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Maybe just make everything looking like a Moravian. A little more square for an end table, a little lower for a coffee table, hang drawers under for a dresser. A house built like that would go well in the SW desert.
Jim
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James just suggested the exact thought I had. He even picked the exact same two pieces of furniture I thought of. Thus, to contribute to the post, I had to think about further pieces for furniture.
Then it struck me....a very low Moravian. Have your wife make or buy 6 pillows. Put three of the pillows on the top, and put the bench close to a wall. Finally lean the last three pillows against wall, and then use it for a couch.
Be careful to put all of the vises on the side against the wall though, because powerful woodworking vises and small grandsons are probably not a good combination. Being once a small boy myself, I can think of several unfortunate things that I did that involved a vise. Fortunately I did not get caught by dad....otherwise I would have regretted the consequences greatly.
The more I thought about it, I began to think the possibilities might be endless. Think of one like James mentioned as an end table, but make it a bit taller for a TV stand. Finally make a fairly tall one with several large drawers and us it for storing china in the dining room. The mind is beginning to free up to the possibilities.
You might want to get buy in from the better half first though. I can see what would happen in my case. Her first statement and questions going something like: "what is that thing in the hallway, and where is my hallway table?" Things could begin deteriorate rapidly for me in such a situation. Fortunately it is not too cold at night here this time of year, so sleeping in the garage at least would not involve freezing to death.
Stew
Last edited by Stew Denton; 06-04-2019 at 12:33 AM.
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A house, tables, dressers and many other objects of furniture with a Moravian influence?
Maybe take it a step further and blend a little Greene & Greene in with the Moravian for a 21st century arts & crafts movement.
A Moravian Morris chair with Greene and Greene joinery.
jtk
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You guys are too much.
It did get me to thinking about furniture for frequent movers, think almost everything in the housebroken down to flat packs and then put back together by driving a few wedges home. A few years go my life would have been much easier.
ken
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Just think. Break it down, house and all, load the whole works into one C 47 throw the laundry sack in the back. Fly to wherever you want to live. Be set up in a day or so and life goes on.
Jim
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It came to me in an extremely rare stroke of genius. Moravian campaign furniture. I really didn't mean genius, just a rare thought.
Jim
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Guys, I think we are on a roll here!
Ken, you may have made a major break through in the thinking on this.....we need to follow up on that idea, and James is the first one to begin to flesh out the basic fabulous idea.
Just think a whole house full of furniture that can be knocked down into basically flat pieces that will only take up 10% of the room to move. Think about the possibilities.
This could be the greatest new idea in furniture design since the Arts and Crafts movement that Jim alluded to. It could sweep the country.
Then, 100 years from now, in "Popular and Fine Woodworking" they could be writing about HPK (Hatch Pallas and Koepke) Moravian Dual Stinger Dinner Tables. Maybe accessories like: "Build a vintage Denton Moravian cigar Box", or "I can do that:, make a Skelly Moravian Theme Nic-Nac shelf." These articles would follow one like "How to Restore Your Great Grandfathers Junker Table Saw."
Now to get the movement started....Ken we will follow your lead!
Stew
Last edited by Stew Denton; 06-05-2019 at 9:48 PM.
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I love it Stew!
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As posted, you guys are killing me.
That said, I did have a couple of design ideas float through
ken
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I think it'd make a very tasteful desk or dining table....and far nicer than anything ikea.
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