Think you can build furniture? You know nothing ...

[Phil Pascoe]

Watch BBC 1 - Money for Nothing - starting from about 3.55pm today. Nice jig at a bout 4.10pm. Unbelievable - I've got to watch to see the final product and price. :lol:

 

[woodbrains]

Hello,

I'll give it a watch on iPlayer later. Am I going to be upset?

Mike.

 

[ED65]

I've seen the first season when it was on previously, can you remind me which piece we're talking about?

 

[Dee J]

Two main methods used seem to be 1. Take a tool, machine part, or piece of scrap, stick a lampholder on it and call it a lamp... or 2. take a larger tool, machine part or piece of scrap and put on an expensive top (hardwood, resin, steel etc) and call it a table. The final price realised seldom matches the labour and additional materials input, and often neglects the remaining intrinsic worth of the source materials. Somewhere between exasperating and tragic..

 

[Phil Pascoe]

This was the beech top with the walnut keys and lime branches for legs. Trying to flatten it with a chainsaw on a skateboard? To be fair, the top didn't actually look bad - I wanted to see if she'd sold it after having paid them £700 to make the thing. Come the end, she hadn't - so no surprises there, then.

 

[Dee J]

The variant seen today... take a handful of sticks as source material and 'add' a butterfly jointed disk of tree as a table top..... Any 'worth' is totally tied up in the table top material and the labour involved in the butterfly joins... Missed the bit about the chainsaw jig though....

 

[Phil Pascoe]

It seems sometimes to be like the emperor's new clothes - she has something done and just as you think no one in their right mind would buy it, she sells it - to someone who will resell it (allegedly :lol: ).
I missed a few minutes (real life got in the way) - that may well have been only a suggestion. I'll watch it again when I'm feeling less suicidal.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Hello,

I'll give it a watch on iPlayer later. Am I going to be upset?

Mike.

Probably only that you wasted half an hour of your like, Mike.

 

[selectortone]

Harry Enfield - "I saw you coming":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xii3lg2yt2E

 

[Adam9453]

Yeah I must admit I was moaning to my wife that the only real value in that table was the top, bit of a nonsense program imho

 

[flh801978]

But is that value 700 notes?
I'm sure lots admire the table top...woodworkers would be worried that its going to move
General public thinking no value to a slice of trunk.
I cant imagine many stumping up 700£+ for a table like that...or am I wrong

Will the bark stay on?

Ian

 

[lurker]

Harry Enfield - "I saw you coming":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xii3lg2yt2E

Precisely!
Are all these idiots with more money than sense & taste safely confined within the M25?

 

[novocaine]

Harry Enfield - "I saw you coming":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xii3lg2yt2E

Precisely!
Are all these idiots with more money than sense & taste safely confined within the M25?

no, unfortunately, as that would offer a way to get rid of them all.

I'll look up this amazing show soon.

 

[bugbear]

Presumably if they find a piece of paper, and a stub of pencil, they'll get an artist to make a drawing, sell it for ££££, and say what a fool the person throwing away the pencil and paper was.

BugBear

 

[lurker]

Presumably if they find a piece of paper, and a stub of pencil, they'll get an artist to make a drawing, sell it for ££££, and say what a fool the person throwing away the pencil and paper was.

BugBear

That's one for the next series BB