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A lot of sites that allow comments have a "Report Spam" button associated with each comment. Not a bad idea...

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Which of the 82 videos at that link are you referring to?

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All kidding aside, I do like it a lot.

David

What tools did you use for your design drawerings?

How did you decide where to drawer the line between draws?

How deep are the draws? According to the dictionary, they should be shallower than a ravine.

Did you drawer any blood while dovetailing the draw sides?

Can you drawer any parallels between this piece and other pieces you have done?

You should enter it in a design competition. Win, lose, or drawer, I'm sure it would be a good experience.

I like your design a lot. I'm very drawern to it.

:)

The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
- Mark Twain, 1888

Draw does not mean drawer, whether spoken or written.

Thanks for your thoughtful response.It's exactly what I expected.

This was a pretty good thread until the past day or two. Maybe the two guys who've been stinking up the place with their arrogance and negativity will go away now.

Nah... Probably not...

aaron_k

Well, the reason I didn't reply to Peter's last post was that I agree with him too. :)

No fun if everybody agrees, right?

But my opinion of the entire modernist movement, from Bauhaus to hairpin legs, to curvy, minimalist chairs is: I don't much care for it.

Not sure where to go from there. No accounting for taste, I suppose.

David

Peter,

I was with you right up until "we can't see frozen music". I'm not sure about that.

Jim Tolpin has a great exercise on page 1 of his book "Measure Twice: Cut Once." He shows two tables, identical except for the relative proportions of the top and the apron. The table designed according to the golden ratio looks fine, the other just looks wrong.

You can see it if you "Look inside the book" on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Measure-Twice-Cut-Once-Woodworking/dp/155870809X

So, maybe we can't see frozen music, but maybe we can see frozen discordance? If almost everybody who looks at those two tables agrees which one looks best, what does that tell us about design? Have our eyes have been trained to respond that way since infancy, or is it somehow more "built in"?

Or maybe we can agree about simple forms like those tables, but more complicated forms are not so easily judged?

David

Asa,

That interpretation of the quote is certainly something that I can agree with. I wonder if that's what Mr. Jacobsen intended, however. Take a look at his designs here, for example.

http://www.bonluxat.com/d/arne-jacobsen.html

They seem far from restrained, to my eye at least.

David

Neil,

Wow, what a rant! Maybe after you calm down a little you can post again and explain a few things, like why you have such contempt for home woodworkers. And what is it, exactly, that disgusts you so much -- are you really that upset that people want to learn how to sharpen and tune their hand planes?

Oh, and how is it that a guy who is "of the Maloof/Krenov generation" looks to be around 40? What's your secret?

Me, I'll just be waiting here, tears streaming down my face, waving at the parade that passed me by as it recedes into the distance.

David

I'm still pondering the quote from Arne Jacobsen: "Good design is when you can't remove any more elements."

Surely that's not the only thing that characterizes good design. By that measure, Ikea particle board bookcases would qualify. They do a fine job holding books, and it's hard to remove any more elements. If you do, they'll fall down. But do we want them in our homes? Not me.

So what's being left out of that formulation? I suspect that at least part of it is "personal preference" element. What looks good to your eye?

George Walker has a great blog on design that addresses questions like this.

http://georgewalkerdesign.wordpress.com/

Ultimately, I don't believe that the Jacobsen quote is any more helpful than the old joke about how to carve the statue of David: start with a big block of marble and chip away anything that doesn't look like David.

@Ieronymus

You quote Arne Jacobsen: Good design is when you can't remove any more elements. And you say "How true."

That is definitely a personal preference, don't you think? Not everyone will agree with you.

For example, read "From Bauhaus to Our House" for a dissenting opinion.

OK, so I guess I'll start. I don't like this furniture style. Krenov, Maloof, Danish Modern -- it all looks too 1950s to me. Too skinny, like a gawky teenager. I keep expecting to see chrome legs.

I realize that I'm being a bit heretical, but my hope is that this style does not beget the style of the 21st century.

Don't ask me what I'd prefer in its place, because I don't know.

OK, so I guess I'll start. I don't like this furniture style. Krenov, Maloof, Danish Modern -- it all looks too 1950s to me. Too skinny, like a gawky teenager. I keep expecting to see chrome legs.

I realize that I'm being a bit heretical, but my hope is that this style does not beget the style of the 21st century.

Don't ask me what I'd prefer in its place, because I don't know.

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Don't those holes leak when the gate is open?

Seems like a good idea, but I'm not sure I follow. Could you explain a little more?

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Some might say that since I won last week, that I shouldn't win again. They would be wrong.

Beautiful. How did you finish it?

It's definitely my "turn" to win.

I'm predicting I get lucky this time.

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What an interesting design! When you say "the panels were...doweled together", do you mean that the side panels were doweled to the top and bottom panels. What about the connection between the panels and the posts? Were those joints doweled too?

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I'm halfway through building something very similar to your lower unit, and I have a question. I'm trying to decide whether to make the lower, deeper drawers have high drawer sides, or to keep them at 4 or 5 inches. How deep did you make your drawer sides?

Wonderful!

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Oops. Never mind. I found your post on this subject here.

http://finewoodworking.taunton.com/item/2440/organizing-bundling-and-printing-full-size-templates

David

This is a great tutorial. Thank you.

I have a question about printing. You say that you can print out a full size template (of a leg, for example) to use on the lathe. How do you do that? Do you have a large format printer?

For those of us who don't, is it possible to have SketchUp print a large component on several sheets along with registration marks for taping the sheets together?

Thanks again.

David

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OK! I hereby enter the contest.

Wow. That's really spectacular. Is the top parallel to the floor? How about the drawer bottoms?

What are the bluish cylinders in the third picture?

Really interesting piece.

This is spectacular! The combination of Cocobola and Padauk makes the box look like it lit from within. Beautiful.