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You're right, I was forgetting it would be sawn veneer thickness, not knife cut!

Just wondering whether, if you're going to be making a lot and they're not too big — would it be practical to have a stamp made and stamp them out - would give you a perfect shape every time and be very quick.... Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me... But could you cut it green and then...

Yes, if you just take one shape in isolation, but they're not supposed to be taken in isolation, the proportions relate to other proportions in a system. Also that's a very small part of what he is proposing. It is much less likely, for example, that the harmonic proportions of the Greek...

Thomas Chippendale good enough for you? The Gentleman's and Cabinet Makers Director — http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=article&did=DLDecArts.ChippGentCab.i0008&id=DLDecArts.ChippGentCab&isize=M&pview=hide\\ Andrea Palladio? (ie the man who is widely agreed...

It's not really a question of looking for complexity where there is none — the people involved have generally been quite open about their use of geometry and proportion, it's incontrovertible historical record that this is how things were done in top end work. There's an enormous body of...

Not sure I'm with you on this. Almost all the great buildings ever built have used various mathematical/geometrical formulas of one sort or another in their design. There are reasons for this, mostly based on the not particularly mystical observation that certain proportions and relationships...

+1, looks perfectly serviceable, should do very well for a while.

That's an interesting idea — when you say use it as a jig how does it work in practice? Do you draw a rod using your piece as a guide, or some other process?

Well my version of a story stick is a stick!

A story stick is like a rod but simpler. You take a long piece of, say, 1'"x1" and mark on it all the measurements at their actual size, then use that to set things out. I tend to do horizontal measurements along one edge and vertical ones along another. Means you have the accuracy and...

I bat things back and forth from head to paper to Sketchup and back again until I think it's about there. Then full or half sized mock up even if only out of cardboard to check real life proportions and any mechanisms etc.. Then make adjustments to drawings if necessary. Then either draw up a...

It was simpler but less interesting. :?

I had beech but replaced them with softwood because of lack of grip.... worked much better.

Just wondering what methods there are for working out increasing or decreasing drawer sizes etc that look harmonious. I tend to either eyeball it, or add on the same amount to each drawer, or use fibonacci for big size differences, but I'm sure there must be more elegant ways that I should...

I'd replace with more soft wood - it grips much better. Hardwood is slippy and more likely to mark the workpiece. They're supposed to be sacrificial.

Grimsby

That has a familiar ring to it.....

Sensible, pragmatic choice. Have fun!

They will last if you buy decent ones - mine (DMT) have been used most days for at least the last five years and are still fine. They stay flat, are really quick and involve zero faffing about. I don't know why some people say they are naff, although they're quite expensive so maybe a bit of...

Way, way sharper. Night and day sharper. 'You don't know what you're missing' sharper.....