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   flairwoodworks | Dec 19, 2008 11:33pm | #1

   Very interesting (inventive?). They remind me of pinecones.

   Chris @ www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com
   (soon to be www.flairwoodworks.com)

    - Success is not the key to happines.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

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   oldusty | Dec 20, 2008 02:11am | #2

   Chris ,

    It's actually a curly Quarter sawn veneer and that is what gives it the herringbone effect .

                       dusty

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   roc | Dec 20, 2008 05:35am | #3

   Dusty,Quite nice ! Pleasing and smart.roc

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   oldusty | Dec 20, 2008 06:11am | #4

        roc ,

    Thanks for the kind words , I am mostly trying to find out if this style is wide spread as I thought or is it a West Coast thang .

       Seems to me many years ago I saw some imported cabinets ,think SmallBone was the maker and a real high end one at that time the cat's meow , they ran the grain vertical in the 5 piece faces . I assumed it was a Euro / British style .

     I also had seen the same in A&C / Craftsman works as well , it just felt right to me and I went with it and have seen others with similar looks locally .If you keep track of the panels and keep them in order it makes the smart look imo .

                   dusty

           

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   ring | Dec 20, 2008 05:55pm | #5

   Dusty,

   I like this one, because it makes no apologies for being veneer. You've got a whole design idea going with the veneer patterns, and it makes sense as a whole. Nice piece.

   regards,

   David Ring

   http://www.touchwood.co.il/?id=1&lang=e

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   oldusty | Dec 20, 2008 06:33pm | #6

      David , Thanks

              I hoped you would see this , as we have talked about it before .

            With some veneers and grains the theme is not as dramatic , as in White Maple .The veneer needs to have some color or figure to make it special , although there is the time to be subtle and uniformly bland also .

    Soon I will post pics of this last Cherry kitchen and when you see it on a larger scale I hope it will make more sense to you  .Make a sample drawer front put in the showroom , you never know ?

       Still you see none done this way in your worlds ?

                 Thanks for taking time to look

                        dusty