Clever work

[Mr T]

Not sure if this has been posted before but it's pretty impressive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gliOZyHkdps

 

[gregmcateer]

That is excellent.
Thanks for posting it up

 

[RogerP]

Yes very, very good! (So is the machinery used).

 

[Kalimna]

Imagine working to that precision by hand, and in an economical way!

Cheers,
Adam

 

[Grahamshed]

A pattern like that must take some thinking out. Superb,

 

[Grayo]

Very impressive. To produce something like that I can only dream. That lad certainly knows what he is doing.

 

[Mike.S]

Clever - wish I had the design and practical skills to build something similar. Decided to keep my next project simple; like this.

 

[JohnPW]

Err...am I'm missing something? All I can see is someone using machines to cut wood into strips and then glueing them back together, without any woodworking hand skill involved.

OK there's some cleverness with the arrangement to give the patterns, but that's not woodworking. Also to cut up big solid pieces of wood like that into small bits is not the best way to use wood, IMO.

 

[Kalimna]

I am curious. How do you define 'woodworking hand skill'? And what is woodworking if not, erm, working with wood, which is exactly what he is doing?.
OK, so a well set up machine with a glueable-from-just-cut-surface blade is perhaps not the same as tirelessly planing away with a self made jointer using a self-tempered blade on a piece of timber that has been selected, felled and air dried by one person, then stuck together with hide glue made from an animal skin slaughtered by same. But there is skill there. In the alignment of all those strips, if nothing else.

When I observe a turner or a carver, all I can see is someone using tools to cut some wood away from some other wood, sometimes with glueing up afterwards. And rightly I praise their skill for doing so and producing something pleasing to behold.

My tuppence worth,
Adam

 

[blackrodd]

For me, Very eye catching finished work. You can see the thought and planning involved. Too involved for me to make, and i'm sure that right in the middle I would have got 1 strip in the wrong way round! Regards Rodders

 

[Grahamshed]

The post was in general woodworking, not hand tools, most woodwork is done by machines with mans input being the skills to plan and use them well.
Mikes table is incredible, and somewhat more useful, both in design and build ( also done with machines I have no doubt ) but it wouldn't even fit in my house, never mind the dining room

 

[bugbear]

I'm not sure I'd like to actually cut on it - a bit eye dazzling. But the design is clever, and takes little more effort than a normal end grain board.

I'm sure other designs can be done;

http://www.op-art.co.uk/victor-vasarely/

A potential craft fair profit to be made there, I think.

BugBear

 

[Mr T]

JohnPW said:

Err...am I'm missing something? All I can see is someone using machines to cut wood into strips and then glueing them back together, without any woodworking hand skill involved.

OK there's some cleverness with the arrangement to give the patterns, but that's not woodworking. Also to cut up big solid pieces of wood like that into small bits is not the best way to use wood, IMO.

A trifle trollish IMO.

I didn't post the vid, as being the acme of hand woodworking, just as someone having,developing and executing an a very creative idea. It's a piece that could not be done without machines, as is most modern furniture. If we didn't use machines most of us would still be sitting on logs. IMO. Possibly the most economical use of "big solid pieces" actually.

 

[custard]

He's a braver man than me gluing up with Titebond, I'd have used UL39 with a slow hardener, picked a cool day, and taken my time!

 

[Grahamshed]

I have never liked Titebond either but not sure what UL39 is.

 

[bugbear]

I have never liked Titebond either but not sure what UL39 is.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=UL39+adhesive

BugBear

 

[custard]

UL39 is mainly used for veneering, but it has a very long open time so is also often used for complicated glue ups.

 

[Mike.S]

not sure what UL39 is.

Aargh - Google search says it's a mutant virus :shock:

 

[Sgian Dubh]

... not sure what UL39 is.

It's a urea formaldehyde adhesive that comes in the form of a liquid resin and a powder hardener mixed together by the user. It's in the same adhesive family as what's commonly called Cascamite. Its chief problem is a short shelf life, about 3 - 6 months if I've remembered that right, but one of its advantages is its relatively short cure time, about an hour I think at 20°C. It's often sold as ideal for veneering, which it is good for, but it has many applications in general joinery and the like. Slainte.

 

[Grahamshed]

I have never liked Titebond either but not sure what UL39 is.

Thanks for the answers everyone.
I think I like the idea of it being a mutant virus.
Doctors described me as a mutant once