... Personally, one of my "When I have the time" projects is to replace our current plain camp box with something that looke more like this: ...
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W. Roberts
sancoeur
Aug 12, 2009 8:23 pm
... As long as you don't forget which bishop is the cinnamon-sugar, and which is the chili powder, this actually sounds like a good idea! While I'm all for...
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Colleen Vince
mary_ostler
Aug 12, 2009 1:35 pm
If you are a turner, their are some beautiful turned spindle livery cupboards (re Chinnerys Oak Furniture). Some nice dark glass, and stonework pottery spice...
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Wm G
brother_wm
Aug 12, 2009 12:21 pm
... Why not an over sized chess set? That is what the salt and pepper containers always looked like to me. brother william great, now i thought up another...
11806
kalligraphos
Aug 12, 2009 2:15 am
After another Pennsic of insane Iron Chef-like cookery (man, did our camp eat like Kings...) I've finally had enough of storing our spices in tupperware. In...
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Wm G
brother_wm
Aug 12, 2009 2:00 am
... http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/ConalOhAirt/Chests%20and%20Boxes/?action=view¤t=bf41-1.jpg ... For a first time, I would set up the sides as...
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conradh@...
Aug 11, 2009 7:11 pm
... A kamal is a simple navigational tool that works by sighting a distant target across a known angle. (Traditionally a wood or bone tablet with a string...
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jay sabath
johannesmach...
Aug 11, 2009 3:12 am
Good Baron Conal, It is times like these that try mens patience and our supply of lumber. Join me in prayer to dear St. Roy to bless us with the answers that...
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Conal O'hAirt Jim...
baronconal
Aug 10, 2009 10:24 pm
I just uploaded the formulas and an excel calculator for compound miters into the files section of the group. Baron Conal O'hAirt / Jim Hart Aude Aliquid...
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medievalsawdust@yahoo...
Aug 10, 2009 10:23 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the medievalsawdust group. File :...
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medievalsawdust@yahoo...
Aug 10, 2009 10:22 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the medievalsawdust group. File :...
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Conal O'hAirt Jim...
baronconal
Aug 10, 2009 9:39 pm
It's starting to sound like I should make some firewood and at the same time make a set up jig for any future boxes....maybe burn thru some plywood scrap until...
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barondevin@...
baron_devin
Aug 10, 2009 9:01 pm
... I recall a Woodwright's episode where St. Roy was making a candlebox or somesuch. As I remember it he rough cut the miter, then clamped the pieces together...
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talmoor
Aug 10, 2009 6:01 pm
... From my reading and the looks of it I would think it is a metal stool and not wood. I have seen mentions of metal folding stools much more often than...
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Colleen Vince
mary_ostler
Aug 10, 2009 3:36 pm
Way too busy at work to really be concentrating on this problem, but couldn't you just get the righ angle for thesloped section to sit flat on the top bord cut...
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Liedtke Goetz
goetzliedtke
Aug 10, 2009 3:03 pm
I'm home ill - therefore brain-dead - but I suspect there's something in classic geometry that makes possible constructed rather than carved peaked roof...
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Liedtke Goetz
goetzliedtke
Aug 10, 2009 2:29 pm
It looks as if the builder laid out the outline on the wood so that the grain is directly along that weak point. In the close-ups, one leg shows the grain in...
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powell.sean@...
sean14powell
Aug 10, 2009 12:45 pm
I have no idea what the medieval solution might be. I could take some guesses as to how to do it with with medieval tools. If you cut all 4 top pieces with...
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Bruce S. R. Lee
bsrlee
Aug 10, 2009 7:14 am
The Swallowcliff Down burial report suggests that the original box lids WERE carved from one piece. Unfortunately they just provide one line drawing/sketch of...
11791
Don Eisele
ksuquix
Aug 10, 2009 2:59 am
Not sure about the usual solution medieval, but some non-medieval but old ways I found when I was looking for solutions myself indicated possibly by eyeball...
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leaking pen
the_leaking_pen
Aug 10, 2009 1:35 am
ahh, in that case, i don't understand the problem. are you talking the general shape of the four pieces, or the angle of join where each piece meets the...
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Conal O'hAirt Jim...
baronconal
Aug 10, 2009 1:28 am
more pictures here.... http://www.dragonetteltd.com/itemdetails.php?id=205479 My question is about the 'bend' in the leg near the bottom... The shape of the...
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Conal O'hAirt Jim...
baronconal
Aug 10, 2009 1:20 am
Nope guess again.... Not carved I made that box and it took a fair amount of test cuts. Inside the lid..... ...
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leaking pen
the_leaking_pen
Aug 10, 2009 1:14 am
the grain follows. it looks to me like the lid is a single carved piece. On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Conal O'hAirt Jim...
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leaking pen
the_leaking_pen
Aug 10, 2009 1:12 am
where does the real wood pic come from? Looking at the jar, I would assume from that diamond center piece that it was a sequence of alternating ribs, with a...
like this.... http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/ConalOhAirt/Chests%20and%20Boxes/?action=view¤t=bf41-1.jpg I've got the formulas for figuring out...
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Beth and Bob Matney
bmatney2000
Aug 4, 2009 1:34 am
I have just received: Jellinek, Tobias. Early British Chairs & Seats From 1500 to 1700. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 2009. 30cm., hardcover, 320pp., ...
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bayard_turner
Aug 2, 2009 1:22 am
Wow, I'd like to see more pictures of the furnishings. Also more info on the paint they used. Drool... Bayard...
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julian wilson
smnco37
Aug 1, 2009 11:27 am
... Gentles all, So here, FYI, - info and pictures Dover Castle's new exhibition. From the pictures available at the BBC website, this new exhibition really...
