A Sterling engine. [image: 51801621371_daca83dc81.jpg] Needs machine screws, nuts, and some screw threads cut yet.

Very sharp results as per.

Thank you! @hornoxx said: But what I have learned from Dave's "sleeplessness " is to use more consistently the options of sketchy styles. I now do this regularly in communication graphics in the early stages of a project to avoid pointless and nurdish detail-blabla. I do that, too. Often when I am designing a piece of furniture, I find it useful to include details that I don't want to show the client, at least in the early stages of the design. Sketchy styles (even the native Straight styles) can be used to do that.

[image: f53b_strazza1.jpg][image: dDe0_strazza2.jpg]Benches of exotic hardwoods have their place. Case in point: The two shown here, by Frank Strazza, a superb woodworker in Texas. The contrasting hardwoods make the dovetails really pop. He uses Benchcrafted vise hardware, arguably the best for these Roubo-style benches. The image of the marquetry on the vise jaw is from a bench Strazza built for a violin-maker. I think Strazza also plays violin.

Like Tuna said, nice.

Very cool.

A very cool project, nicely done.

Simply marvelous ! Love the style.

Thank you Loco.

hmmmm..... interesting design. Not sure I'd want it in my house but great modeling none the less !

Great table, great image style

Nice

Another great piece, nicely done.

"... it gets the point across." ... very funny (and a groaner!).

Thank you. Paul McCobb was a furniture designer who did a lot of furniture in the Mid-Century Modern style. Turned tapered legs are a common feature on his furniture designs.

Simple can be cool too Like your “ancient” style also

Baz, I had a similar experience related to the replacement of OR lights and the addition of some articulated equipment booms. The vendor showed a floor plan with circles drawn to show the area the equipment could cover but not the volume of space the equipment would consume in the room. As it turned out, the proposed placement of the equipment and where it mounted on the ceiling meant that it couldn't be used in the primary location. If the boom was positioned where they wanted it during use, they couldn't get the patient in the room. And it couldn't be place on the other side of the table to allow the patient to come in because they'd have to take the equipment over the patient once they were on the table and that is prohibited. The vendor wasn't happy because they had to go back and rework things and the project manager was at first upset because of the delay in the project and the need to schedule another meeting. She figured out though that it saved the hospital a pile of money, though.

Thank you, gentlemen. I've recorded a video. I'll share a link once it gets published although that might not be for awhile. I ended up doing it for Design. Click. Build.

@bryan k said: Is the second one ceramic? Yes. I didn't make the brown color dark enough to match the glaze they used on them because the detail would disappear. Things like these aren't really all that complicated to model but because of their small size, the brown one is less than 4 in. tall and the glass one is less than 3, it takes a bit of a different approach in SketchUp to get the smooth surfaces. And thank you!

Cool little solution to the problem