Tutorials on Frame and Panel (with Mouldings) by Hand?

[woodbrains]

Hello,

If I've said this once I've said it a dozen times here, but conveniently forgotten by Jacob so he can talk his usual nonsense. James Krenov was trained in making wooden sailing boats. I think he might have a little skill in architectural joinery as a consequence.

Mike.

 

[Jelly]

For the record I think complex shuttering and first fix carpentry is under valued.

This is likelu a reflection of:

• The fact that relatively few people get to see it up close or watch all that's involved with it.
• The fact that it lacks immediate visual appeal.
• Being totally inaccessable to the average hobbyist.

On that last point, furniture is pretty accesible in terms of size, scope and actually finding a home for it after its made. Joinery products like windows and doors are pretty do-able for a comitted hobbyist but its more important to get it right and the requirement to make one will only come round now and again. Moving on to Carpentry, a hipped roof with traditonal rafters requires a good deal of know-how, a head for working with awkward compound angles, multiple people, lifting equipment, scaffold and is also both time and safety critical so it would take someone pretty special to even consider doing one themselves, so it slips straight under most people's radar.



Unrelated, Mike and Jacob whats the deal with your respective love affair and vendetta with Krenov... When all is said and done, he's just a bloke who advocated wooden planes and fancy furniture.

 

[Jacob]

Hello,

If I've said this once I've said it a dozen times here, but conveniently forgotten by Jacob so he can talk his usual nonsense. James Krenov was trained in making wooden sailing boats.

I thought he was supposed to trained in furniture making - if so it doesn't show. Was he "trained" as a boat builder? I though he just worked in a yard, sometime, somewhere. That does show in his work though - they have a boaty feel about them

I think he might have a little skill in architectural joinery as a consequence....

I doubt it very much.
Did he ever make anything else besides his little cupboards? NB these would be called "tobacco cabinets" were it not for the fact that everybody has given up smoking! How was he on tables & chairs?
BTW I quite like his stuff - he is good on design, as far as he goes (not very far), but his woodwork is odd and his old hippy philosophising very tedious!

Old pipe cabinet: