No skills":1qzept72 said:
If anybody does have contact with Rico, tell him to sort out a YouTube channel and do his stuff on there. Good enough for Frank/Jimmy and all the rest of them - plus he's got an instant audience waiting once he's up and running.
His collective followers have been trying just that for quite a while, but unfortunately about 18 months or so ago he had a stroke - he's made close to a full recovery, but for now he's been doing other things.
He uses wax predominately because it's fast and gets a sheen - brush it on, rub it off, ..done.. If he used Danish he might then have to explain the "every day for a week...." plus that isn't really the finish for the furniture he makes, same for polyurethane. He doesn't ALWAYS use medium brown... he has been known to dabble with natural...
I've never said everything he makes is wonderful - like the aformentioned TV cabinet, I agree it's fairly hideous,
but it made me start looking around at things differently, and led to my BBQ being made from scraps lying about (MK2 is in the wings for this summer as we speak.... annoyingly I had to wait 3 years for our replacement washing machine to pack up before I could make MK 2
) Conversly his reclaimed theodilte tripod lamp is pretty inspired (and there's variations made deliberately that way, for sale new).
4 doors, plywood sheet from a packing pallet, screws, hinges + a couple slops of leftover paint = useable wardrobe not firewood; how hard is that to understand?
n0legs - Sorry I bit harder than normal, but as I wrote as well as Rico being someone I know, he is, as others have clearly worked out on their own, an enabler; it's not the quality of his work that's the message, it's the message behind the work that was important - something you seem to have overlooked. Like the car axle on the table - I thought it was innovative, just like the car engine block coffee table's you see for sale, or the back end of a cadillac turned into a sofa; innovative and DO-ABLE - even for my limited skillset. For the right person that table is a "perfect" piece of furniture, that that person isn't you diminishes the look and idea behind it not one whit. Do I slate Jackson Pollack just because I don't really "get it"? No, I don't.
On the "Welsh Pride" thing; a bit of a fail there
I'm Welsh on my fathers side, I've worked in Wales by choice - spent many childhood holidays in Portcawl, Camber Sands and such, released ashes of a good friend at the top of Pen-y-fan on the plateau, my choice; "somewhere nice" was all she said; and my best mate lives in Brecon - the town not the area - and I'd move there in a heartbeat if there was more work of my kind in the area, parts of Wales are stunning.
