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Proud joinery is my preference. Curves are also a plus.
Looks good to me. In today's world there is room for conflicting styles (early Americana - arts & crafts) to overlap.
Maybe the purist don't like it, but the buying public will likely want one hanging or setting in their home.
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Mike, let me previse by saying I very much like your work. I too have gone through stages in my woodworking. I have done many pieces with exposed joinery. I finally settled in on joinery is joinery but I don’t care to see it. I now try to hide it even to the point of doing full blind dovetails on drawers. I made a post about that several years back. Each of us should be able to do as we please. Unless we are trying to replicate an era or a style we can do as we please IMHO. Keep doing what you like.
Jim
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Thanks to all who commented. I sincerely appreciate all the feedback and disparate points of view. One of the things I value most about the Creek is the opportunity to learn and benefit from such a talented and diverse community. SMC is really the only place where I can solicit feedback from folks I respect and appreciate.
Not sure if I have any conclusions that will influence my next project, but I’m definitely thinking about all the feedback. Thanks again!
Best, Mike
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I really like joinery as a design element. Proud dovetails, finger joints, and through tenons are favorites of mine. That said, context is important. To my eye, the box has an abundance of style elements to begin with and I find the proud joinery to be a distraction from the core aesthetic.
Sharp solves all manner of problems.
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Not that you're going to do this, but if you could mock up a piece with each element, one at a time or two at a time to see if you like it with A,B or C, or some combination of them. This can often help you as the piece will take on a different look with each combination of elements.Originally Posted by Mike Allen1010
If you have a decent graphics program, you could "photoshop" the different elements in and out of the image.
Just suggestions.
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Occam's Razor: "“the simplest solution is almost always the best.”
"Good design occurs not when everything imaginable has been added, but when all that is unnecessary has been removed." -- Me
"Anything seems possible when you don't know what you're doing."
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I tend to think that way, Andy.
But a wonderful luxury of having customers is getting to explore design from all sorts of perspectives.
There's a fair amount of mash-up even in "classical" stuff.
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What matters is that YOU like it. Or whoever owns it. It's obvious that it was lovingly made by skilled hands. And you don't see that too often in furniture anymore.
But it's definitely not my cup of tea. To me, it doesn't know if it wants to be geometric or organic. There are a lot of curves and straight lines that don't seem to be talking to each other. It doesn't feel coherent to me. But clearly, other people like it, and you're never going to please everyone. So don't worry about my opinion, because that shouldn't matter to you.
Though I am also of the opinion that the craftsmanship is undeniable, even if the design doesn't resonate with me. I wouldn't buy it. But if I inherited it, I wouldn't sell it either.
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Of course, who doesn't like tee shirts with pockets!
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thanks Jimmy - what a wonderful way of defining ones appreciation for an object!
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For me, the top and drawer hang together nicely and the thru tenons play well enough but the voluptuous curves and gigantic dovetails might be better explored in another piece. Well you asked.
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No Tom , I mean it - I really do appreciate the feedback. I think it's always extremely helpful to solicit advise and suggestions- personally that has always helped me grow in may different aspects. In woodworking I don't really have that luxury, except here on the Creek. Maybe self serving of me to ask for feedback here but I do really appreciate the advise and insight of our community.
Cheers, Mike
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I find it refreshing that some people, like yourself, still seek out critiques of their work, it's becoming a rare thing these days.
BTW, I wouldn't consider it as "self serving" at all, it's nothing more than another part of learning process. Other members that don't contribute to the thread may benefit as well.
I'm a Greene and Greene fan.
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Bring on the joinery!
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That's what I said.
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