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Fantastic. Reminds of something from an archeology dig.

Very nice. Did you use euro style hinges on the door or something home brewed?

Is this some scumbag's ad for a hotel in Dublin? If I'm ever in Dubin I know where I won't go.

To hell with all this bravado rhetoric! I like my fingers, toes, ears and nose right where there are and not on the floor. With as many tools we use being made overseas this may a chance for American companies to get back into manufacturing American tools and equipment.

Pure art work!

Okay lets try that again: The clean lines make it look like furniture. I wouldn't mind that in my living room. My wife, probably not so much.
(One little word off changed the whole thing.)

Fantastic!

The clean lines make it look like furniture. I would mind that in my living room. My wife, probably not so much.

Yes, mine looks just like that too and up until a couple years ago I knew where everything was at. Now I have to go get my glasses first.

I only want know if I could come live at your house?

Great job! What kind of wood? Making your own design usually means you mis-measured somebody else's design. My tables are mostly as long as my shortest board.

Arts and Crafts stlye furniture always looked heavy and clunky. Your desk looks like you could lift it with one hand. Well done.

I don't know about being super in all, never had the chance I guess. Love the box, it's beautiful. I'd save it and give it to my next wife.

Almost likes like ivory. Very nice.

I like the design, clean and simple but as you say rock solid. Could you add bottom panels to create a storage area? The sides seem deep enough. I have a couple of grandsons that could use something like that.

You know I would rather build a two-holer but the back yard isn't big enough.

Love it! I made a few for friends mostly on the lathe. You can't get any really good Unicorn hair or phoenix feathers around where I live.

A woodworking journey is traveled with your hands and your tools. Looks like you're in the right direction.
Being out doors what do you do to keep the rust down? I live on the Texas coast and have to oil everything all the time.

Beautiful, but with something that complicated I'd loose a finger somewhere around the decimal point.

I like your design much better than anything by Henry van de Velde(the only other Art Nouveau furniture I've seen). To quote my grandson: You rock, dude!

Wow.

While I was up in the DC area I saw train trestles (Metro) made out of parallam beams. Trestle table works for me.

Great job and both interesting materials. Did you need any metal reinforcement in the hypertufa concrete top? How strong is it?

Wow!

That's a very interesting question. The norm would be that each door would have a separate oval shaped grain pattern similar to 5 and 6. This makes each door a closed 'container'.

But you could with the use of the strong laterals of the drawers make one very large container with 1 and 2 mimicking 3 and 4 and 5 shaped like 6 in the drawing. Or (((==))).

I noticed he wasn't wearing any chain mail. My old shop teacher Mr Dugan's methods for safety was to scare every kid so bad that no one would dare use any tool more complicated than a hammer. We did not produce much but we did it safely.

Glad to see some sanity.

Lucy was my grand daughter. Not sure I am ready to go into details. Thank you.
Mac

Since the drawer fronts would expand in all four directions you would have to allow expansion in the drawer slides as well as top and bottom. I wonder if the resin in the old boards has changed over the years? Solidified or dried out any and making it stronger? This is beautiful stuff! Why can't I come up something like that. Whoops, my jealousy is showing.

Not to cut him short but I found Inlace color epoxy cheap and easy to use. It mixes up quite thin and pours like water then cut or sand away to overflow when set. The only bad part is you really need ventilation, ergo; it really smells bad.

http://www.inlacebook.com

Mac

I have used thick spar varnish to fill cracks and crevices. It levels nicely and doesn't have the fumes like epoxy.

Free book are some of the best reads.

It would be nice to replace all of our existing table saws with Stopsaws but that is not going to happen. Maybe the Stopsaw folks could come up with a way to retrofit their equipment to our saws. I would spend the money for that.

I like the bulldog stance of the legs. Gives it a feeling of weight and power.

I could use that book.

For outdoor varnish you can't go wrong with that spar crap.

The reverse treatment on the front and back corners makes overall design beautiful. Wish I did that.