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Kintsugi Table

After a family e-reminisce about the Old Bear stories, I got a small request about the possibility of extending the life of Old Table, who had served the Gray/Scott side of the family in London and Bristol, in different houses, through many family and friends gatherings and finally out in the garden when a young pretender entered the dining room.

Restoring and renewing are deeply ingrained in my brain, alongside creating from scratch, so a trip down country was arranged. Below gives an idea of what I found. The legs were also rotten at the bottom and different lengths.

There was obviously no instant fix here, so I had the adventure of trying to take it apart, doing as little extra damage as possible.

Back in Wakefield, I set about the business of staring at the pile, abandoning bits and slowly repairing, replacing and reassembling. The idea was to leave it as a flat-pack that I could fit in the car and reassemble the whole back in Bristol. When I completed the drawer surround front, I sent a picture. I proposed leaving the colour different so old and new were obvious. Rob mentioned Kintsugi and I realised I had used that idea before on split pieces of wood I was proposing to make into chairs. Building on conversations I’d heard at several of the those family/friends gatherings, I decided to incorporate a Bling Strip, though Rob has decided it is a go faster stripe. The result, ready for more good times.

Thank you Jo for keeping me occupied with another opportunity to make people smile.

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Is it a Chair?

An enjoyable week down at Westonbirt Woodworks that caused a mix of amusement, admiration and bemusement. I decided to use a mix of existing bits and newly made ones to create a sculpture.

As it developed Paul Hayden likened it to Picasso’s Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, and my brother found a picture of a chair sculpture by the same, that had a resemblance. I decided that this one would be called Les Chaises not least because it is several things at once.

It is actually hard to get angles to work in this way and yet make a stable structure. Where there were imperfections in the wood I drew attention to them. There was a big fault at one side of the seat, so we cut a chunk out, making two different seat shapes in one. Correspondingly there are two different seat carving patterns.

Thanks also to Stephen for his part in my chair adventures and to all those who have encouraged me.

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Furniture Additions

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Just a better chair photo.

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Beautiful Weather for a catch-up on jobs

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Westonbirt Chairs

I hadanother very enjoyable week at Westonbirt Woodworks and I managed to produce two chairs.
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A different Chair Job

This was the second rocking chair I bought many years ago. It sits out on the porch and has suffered. I took it copletely apart and rebuit it with a few new bits where tenons had gone and a strengthening under the seat, which is made of separate sections of wood, so also needed rebuilding. Slow but less hard work than making from scratch.
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Another Prototype

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Ageing Chair

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Jigsaw Complete