Bespoke Dining / Living Room Furniture

[screenman]

I just seem to make sawdust.

 

[raleighnut]

For really amazing woodworking joints though have a look at some Japanese techniques, when I was doing my C&G we went to the Victoria & Albert Museum, my oppo from the course Andy and I were blown away by some of the furniture produced in the 15th century


View: https://youtu.be/F66IbyEoJw0

 

[Cuchilo]

A Carpenter will nail joints together
A Joiner will screw joints together
A Cabinet maker with dovetail joints together

Thats a bit like saying the milk man will only deliver milk .

 

[raleighnut]

Thats a bit like saying the milk man will only deliver milk .

Aye but the Postman always knocks twice.

 

[irw]

Aye but the Postman always knocks twice.

Unlike the courier that doesn't even knock once...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Realise this is pretty random as we all live in different parts of the world. Has anybody had some made, was it as you hoped serves its purpose etc.

We have a perfect 13 foot alcove but nothing off the shelf seems to look the part.

For our younger readers you may need to look up 13 foot!!.

I've made plenty for other people...

A Carpenter will nail joints together
A Joiner will screw joints together
A Cabinet maker will dovetail joints together

A really good Cabinet Maker would use 'Secret Mitre Dovetails' on a Carcase joint, Dovetails are for drawers.

I'd love to make hidden Dovetails, but try and find someone willing to pay for them. I had to have visible dovetails for my own final project though:

One trumpet, blown.

(Construction pictures here)

 

[Dave 123]

I know people who have used this company

http://www.mckyes.co.uk/

It all looks good the stuff I’ve seen.

 

[raleighnut]

I've made plenty for other people...





I'd love to make hidden Dovetails, but try and find someone willing to pay for them. I had to have visible dovetails for my own final project though:

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One trumpet, blown.

(Construction pictures here)

Yep my initial reason for learning woodworking skills was to restore antiques but again no-one wants to pay, that's why I ended up in Shopfitting and Exhibition stand building.........................Have Cordless Will Travel.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Yep my initial reason for learning woodworking skills was to restore antiques but again no-one wants to pay, that's why I ended up in Shopfitting and Exhibition stand building.........................Have Cordless Will Travel.

I read that as "Shoplifting" for a bit.

Exhibition work is tough: one of my colleagues at college was taught by an Exhibition company. They have high standards long hours and lots of travelling. An acquaintance worked in that area too, and he's physically ill from it, although to be fair he also worked in a casting workshop for more than a decade and drank nearly a crate of beer (24l) a day as well so that may be part of it...

 

[Dave 123]

Yep my initial reason for learning woodworking skills was to restore antiques but again no-one wants to pay, that's why I ended up in Shopfitting and Exhibition stand building.........................Have Cordless Will Travel.

When I ran a business in Devon there was a fella on the same premises, John Monk who restored antiques. He had a shed full of stuff to do, he couldn't keep up. He had a heart attack in the end...

Still in Devon, the ex boyfriend of my niece works for Princess Yachts doing all the high class woodwork, cabinet making etc. He's only 23, a very talented lad.

 

[Andy in Germany]

When I ran a business in Devon there was a fella on the same premises, John Monk who restored antiques. He had a shed full of stuff to do, he couldn't keep up. He had a heart attack in the end...

Still in Devon, the ex boyfriend of my niece works for Princess Yachts doing all the high class woodwork, cabinet making etc. He's only 23, a very talented lad.

"Furniture restorer" is a completely different occupation here, although in practice a lot of carpenters end up there.

I know of a Yacht making company in Stuttgart (500km from the sea). They told me the budget for a Yacht is 1m Euro per foot. There are some people in this world with far more money than is good for them...

 

[raleighnut]

I read that as "Shoplifting" for a bit.

Exhibition work is tough: one of my colleagues at college was taught by an Exhibition company. They have high standards long hours and lots of travelling. An acquaintance worked in that area too, and he's physically ill from it, although to be fair he also worked in a casting workshop for more than a decade and drank nearly a crate of beer (24l) a day as well so that may be part of it...

He sounds like me but I only spent 8yrs as a moulder in non-ferrous foundries (mainly Brass but some Aluminium) in fact that's where I got my love of antiques, we'd get restorers bring in a handle or a castor body and want a set replicated (top-tip, if you need 1 new handle on a cabinet/desk and just have 1 made it will stand out as new but if you fit a set it looks much better)

 

[MontyVeda]

For really amazing woodworking joints though have a look at some Japanese techniques, when I was doing my C&G we went to the Victoria & Albert Museum, my oppo from the course Andy and I were blown away by some of the furniture produced in the 15th century


View: https://youtu.be/F66IbyEoJw0

the ancient japanese art of making joinery as complicated as possible!

 

[raleighnut]

the ancient japanese art of making joinery as complicated as possible!

Yep, at the time we Brits were just nailing planks together.

 

[sheddy]

Chippendale and also Gibbons on tv
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo...odwork-1-the-extraordinary-thomas-chippendale