TV

[Lonsdale73]

Is it just me? Is it just a phase I'm going through? I have found I can hardly watch anything on TV without scrutinising some of the woodwork caught on camera. Like the wood panelling in someone's house last night or the ornately carved desk in another show. And if it's a western, I'm even checking out the covered wagons and wondering how to make cart wheels (too old and too stiff to be turning them any time soon!)

 

[lanemaux]

Not just you amigo , nor just on TV. Have a look at some of the woodwork to be seen in the background shots in Vikings , travel shows or even Time Team pubs. Some great stuff if you keep a sharp watch. I fear I go a step further though. My wife plays a lot of Skyrim , an Xbox 360 game (she's playing it now) that has very detailed rendering of workbenches , tools and buildings. Not really period accurate as I doubt that vikings used western panel saws (almost recognisable as Distons) but fun for random toolspotting . There was even an incident at a friends wedding such that everyone was wondering about the pious guest with the biker beard. I wasn't praying , rather was I staring in drop-jawed amazement at the most beautiful timber framed ceiling I had ever seen. I spent most of the ceremony staring upwards with a look of near rapture on my face according to my wife.

 

[Lonsdale73]

At mum's funeral last year, I couldn't help but notice the rather sloppy joins on her very expensive coffin!

 

[DiscoStu]

Slightly off topic my Dad and Mum had prepaid for their funerals and when we lost dad a little while ago I was sat with mum and the undertaker and he asked what type of coffin we wanted and mum said a cardboard one. I only found out then that they had decided they didn't see the point in wasting money or materials. We could have actually have had wood as it had been paid for but mum still said they'd decided on cardboard. I confess I'm not sure what anyone at the funeral thought but we honoured his wishes.


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[Lonsdale73]

Slightly off topic my Dad and Mum had prepaid for their funerals and when we lost dad a little while ago I was sat with mum and the undertaker and he asked what type of coffin we wanted and mum said a cardboard one. I only found out then that they had decided they didn't see the point in wasting money or materials. We could have actually have had wood as it had been paid for but mum still said they'd decided on cardboard. I confess I'm not sure what anyone at the funeral thought but we honoured his wishes.


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Cardboard coffins have been around for a while now, another idea imported from the continent. I used to have a customer who made them, I worked for a print company who printed the wood effect paper that became the outer layer of the corrugated box.

 

[Lons]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Like any addiction, at least you've acknowledged you have a problem. :wink:

 

[Phil Pascoe]

At mum's funeral last year, I couldn't help but notice the rather sloppy joins on her very expensive coffin!

I bought a 13' bench for £30 from an auction at an undertakers (they'd been done for defrauding a church), it was made of beech, alive with woodworm and about 2" hollow in the middle end to end and an inch round side to side. I have never seen so many holes, mails and screws in two pieces of timber. How anything classy was made on it is beyond me. I was lying, actually - I bought the near perfect Record 52 1/2 and 53e and a weeks firewood.

 

[Steve Maskery]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Like any addiction, at least you've acknowledged you have a problem. :wink:

"Hi, I'm Steve and I'm a woodworker"

 

[Lonsdale73]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Like any addiction, at least you've acknowledged you have a problem. :wink:

"Hi, I'm Steve and I'm a woodworker"

I'd be doing proper woodworkers a disservice by claiming that but I am working on it.

 

[Lons]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Like any addiction, at least you've acknowledged you have a problem. :wink:

"Hi, I'm Steve and I'm a woodworker"

I'd be doing proper woodworkers a disservice by claiming that but I am working on it.

Yep I tell people I'm a recovering addict. Problem is that you have to actually want to give up to recover. :lol:

 

[Benchwayze]

Much of the background woodwork scenery in films like 'Vikings' is all 'faux'. Mostly made from MDF and comb-grained by top-notch artistic finishers. So I am led to believe. (Incidentally. 'Vikings' bored me witless after about 20 mins of trying.) But I suffer from the same malady, when watching films.

For instance I rather liked the period scroll-work on the sides of the little wall cupboard I saw in Richard Attenborough's '10 Rillington Place'. I wanted to make one but SWMBO said if I did she would burn it! :mrgreen:

 

[stuartpaul]

I got told off for pausing the TV for a closer look at some beautiful quarter sawn oak paneling.

Couldn't tell you what programme it was though!

 

[Eric The Viking]

Our GPs' surgery was once a theological college (the reception area was once the chapel), the building is Victorian I think, and little expense was spared in its construction*. It has some really nice oak panelling, especially in the treatment room, which was the common room (it's carved on the doors).

I was in for a blood test, having been really ill a month or so earlier, and I still looked rather white (anaemia). I don't like blood tests, so to distract myself I was looking at the detail of the panelling. All the major joints have drawbored tenons, and there's beading too - it's very nicely done and must have cost a small fortune originally.

Unexpectedly, two nurses rushed over from the other side of the room to join the nurse doing the blood-letting.

"Are you all right? We saw you staring into space and thought you were about to faint."



E.

(I did explain. I'm not sure they were convinced.)

*It feels arts+crafts so might be a bit later: This is just outside the treatment/common room (probably around 1910):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/13084346975/in/photostream/
The same radiator, panelling, doors and light fitting are still there today.

 

[No skills]

It's not just TV, public buildings/holiday destinations/anything I look at really #sadgit

 

[stewart]

Personally, I often find looking at the wood items more interesting than the programme! Some great shaped lamps the last time I was made to sit through an episode of Downton Abbey...

 

[Student]

EtV

FWIW, apparently the College was built for the Congregational Church in 1906 in the Arts and Crafts style which was fashionable at the time. I seem to remember that, when I first came to Bristol, it was being used as the HQ of some sort of school's examining board.

 

[Eric The Viking]

Thanks - I was only out by four years!
And yes, I think you're right about the exam board thing, too.

It's a nice building, and in the past they've taken pretty good care of it. Whether that will continue now profits are all but gone from general practice remains to be seen (they own it, and the stonework alone makes the place really expensive to maintain).

 

[Stiggy]

You're definitely not alone, you can notice all sort of sloppiness on TV - don't get me started on '60 minute makeover'!

(hammer)