Arts & Crafts Plate Rack
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Banged this out last night while avoiding doing something I should have been doing. It's based on one from around 1910. I like the look of it. I wish I had some plates to display to give me a reason to make it.
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Have you a specific link for the Arts & Crafts furniture data base ?
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No. I just browse through Google images until I find pieces I like.
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So you interpretate a possible system of assembly ?
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Sometimes I find drawings that illustrate the joinery--maybe exploded views, maybe just dashed lines in a single drawing. I have enough woodworking experience that I can usually figure out what joinery would be appropriate. I also know what sorts of joinery would be common on pieces of the type.
For this plate rack I know that the rails would be joined to the uprights with mortises and tenons. Since hide glue would have been the prevalent adhesive of the time, the shelf and corbels were probably attached with glue and screws however with the adhesives available today you could omit the screws with no worries.
The original showed screws across the top rail to attach it to the wall. I wouldn't do that. Instead I would use keyhole hangers let into the backs of the vertical stiles. since the tenons aren't visible, instead of typical mortise and tenon joinery, I would probably use my Festool Domino and use loose tenon joinery. I might use Dominos for alignment for joining the shelf to the middle rail or I might use a tongue and groove but there'd be no screws. The only screws I'd use would be for joining that thin rail and only because the original had them. The original screws would likely have been brass but I'd use silicon bronze oval-head screws because I like the color of them better with the color of the wood.
I was looking at a couple of pieces of white oak I've had in my shop for years. I was going to make a floor lamp from it but maybe there's enough to get this plate rack out too.
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Many thanks for the infos!
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Great colors... That style pops with the classic piece.
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