Last night a friend was asking about all the old molding planes I had, when I was looking in the tool chest I acquired about twenty years ago, I came across this.
It was interesting enough to model and I believe it does fall into the "woodworking" category.
The lower top handle rotates free-floats from the top one. I can't think of one reason why. Does anyone here have a suggestion why?
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/5ccf7558-70d8-4565-8293-9d8666d3b2a1/A-H-Reid-drill
Love it!
And I got a bit of a history update when I looked up "Greenfield Industries". I was familiar with the name, but somehow always associated it with "Greenfield Tap and Die" another well-known name in that field. And I'm originally from Greenfield Massachusetts, where the later was located.
Thank you, Liam I will give that a shot.
From perusing the site, I've not seen many requests for furniture as old as what I'm asking. But who knows.
Chris
While I've not had the chance to look into the resources that DavidH gave me.
I have found this https://www.bidsquare.com/online-auctions/ahlers-ogletree/pair-of-jacobean-stained-oak-hall-chairs-17th-c-495968, which suggests that these chairs might be even older than I thought.
I find it hard to believe they could be a hundred years older than I thought.
And compared to these chairs, mine are in pristine condition.
As always, thank you, gentlemen, for the help.
Thank you, davidheim1 for the links to those three resources.
DaveR, I've just finished watching your "Fine Woodworking" video over on youtube. Nice presentation! So thank you also.
I seem to be having a fair degree of success with HornOxx's suggestion of using subD, thanks to his model getting me going in the right direction. So thank you, sir, also!
DaveR, I looked and found no makers marks. I did discover that the original seat was caned. although it's always been upholstered during the 67 years I've known it.
So thanks again!
Chris
@hornoxx said:
"... these are so great chairs
Thank you HornOxx, and your subD example looks like it might be part of the solution.
Here's the file saved back to SU6 so even pilou should be able to open it.
"I'll see what I can do with it." For one thing, you could sit on it.
Even given its age, I've never seen them as museum pieces.
On occasion, rather large folks have sat on them and Kay and I used them as props while we had our photography studio.
But if you're willing to pay the insurance, packing and shipping fees, I'd be happy to let you have a look!
That's a good question Dave, the makers mark one. I've seen these chairs for sixty plus years, but I've never looked. I will!
I did add a SU file that I've played with. I have tried curviloft to no avail.
Hello again!
I have a pair of Jacobean chairs, that have been in my family for I'm guessing maybe 140 years or so.
Two part question.
One, I'd love to have more information about them. My great grandparents immigrated to the USA from Ireland in the late 1800s'. I don't know whether they brought these chairs with them or bought them after they arrived. So I'm looking for a bit more history on this style of Jacobean chair than I've been able to find.
Two, I've tried to model them and had zero success. Does anyone have thoughts as to how I could accomplish it? Specifically the carved parts.
Thank's all. I stumbled across this while I was researching something else, and was fascinated by the history of the desks.
David, this is one of the now 100 desks in the US Senate.
I had to do a lot of guessing, apparently, the first 48 were all different and it showed in all the different photos I looked at.
The last four were built in 1959 when Alaska and Hawaii became states.
They have a rich history.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/special/Desks/overview.cfm
This item was commissioned to Thomas Constantine in 1819. He built 48 of them.
I personally think the piece is too heavy. But I guess it was built to withstand lot's of abuse, like fists being pounded on the desktop. As they are still intact today the price of $34 dollars was a good deal.
Apparently, by 1896 there was so much hot air in the room that defusers were added to the feet for addition fresh air.
The original design was modified in the early 1900's with the addition of a second compartment on the top.
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/df75439f-bece-444e-a3f7-de425cb04c15/Senate-Desk
Very nice! Very clean. I'm going to go out on a limb here, I assume the caning is a texture?
@poppadave
The sink next to the octagon I used several plug-ins, Curvi-loft, round corner. The ones to the right I used the native tools. I created a basic outline, copied that down on the blue axis, created a plane at 40 degrees, moved the front two corners back and in until they were intersecting with the plane and the edges. I hand stitched the top and bottom corners together. Made a group, made a copy, scaled one of the copies down by .9, dropped it in the center of the larger one, exploded them both, and deleted the face. I made a rim for the sink using "follow me". Scaled it up by 1000, and intersected.
I'm sorry, I'm not the best explainer and I sure can't make you a gif. So I hope that was enough information to head you in the right direction.
Good luck,
Chris
HP Sink.skp
tmt0009,
Your right it is almost too fast to see, but it looks like the bend was done with Shape Bender by Chris Fullmer and the tensile structure was done with Loft by Spline by Fredo6.
I love these!
Question, if you were to build them, would you laminate or steam bend? Or would you opt for the bandsaw route?
I'm just curious, as laminating would be easier, but I've had spotty results with doing it for outside applications.
But very nicely done.
Chris
Sorry Dave, I hastily typed that in, Technic was what I meant. The "E" is a little different also, but close.
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The font I need is the one used for labels on the base.
Dave isn't it just one of the Tecnic fonts?
