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   GEide | Mar 04, 2008 11:00pm | #1

   Hi Flavius,

    

   Sorry not to respond more quickly. I’ll try putting your question in Gary Rogowski’s folder. He sometimes builds Asian inspired pieces.

    

   Your message reminds me of two pieces in our gallery:

   One by Michael Hurwitz:

   http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/Gallery/GalleryImage.aspx?id=28025

   and one by J.M. Syron and Bonnie Bishoff:

   http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/Gallery/GalleryImage.aspx?id=28023

    

   Jon Binzen talks about these pieces in his slideshow about the Inspired by China exhibit Peabody Essex Museum:

   http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/ProjectsAndDesign/ProjectsAndDesignArticle.aspx?id=28009

    

   Good luck with your project,

    

   Thanks, Gina

   FineWoodworking.com

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   Flavius | Mar 05, 2008 02:40am | #2

   Thanks for the information.I am really looking for a method to generate a pattern, is there a defined procedure to obtain a good result for large doors or panels. What I have in mind is something like the Japanese rice paper doors with a cracked-ice pattern rather than a rectangular pattern.For a small surface, it is much more easy to design a pattern, however, for large surface it seems to me a challenge to have something that looks like random cracks in ice.Maybe there is a software to generate such patterns?Flavius

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   user-148830 | Mar 05, 2008 07:33pm | #3

   Flavius,
   I know of no software for design of this type. There are wonderful books on Chinese furniture however like Gustav Ecke's Chinese Domestic Furniture. The cracked ice patterns in these books are fairly rectilinear and so any joinery would most likely be of the bird's mouth variety. Look at my book The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery for this joint. Essentially it's one piece with a v shaped end fitting into a notch in the matching piece. For lines that continue through another piece, then you'd have to go with some type of half lap joint. Again check out my book for some variations on this. Now if you're applying paper to the backs of these sticks, then you could generate whatever shapes or curves you wanted by steaming and bending the pieces and then using the bird's mouth joint. Have fun with this. Good luck. Gary

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   Flavius | Mar 06, 2008 01:20am | #4

   Gary,I have Gustav Ecke's book as well as yours.Will experiment based on your suggestions.Thanks for taking time to answer.Flavius