Furniture

[Chant]

Could you talk a little bit about the tools and construction methods you use? It looks like most of the joinery is done by drilling a hole straight through all the pieces and clamping them together with the long nut-and-bolt assemblies (which are also very attractive themselves.)

Hell, if I could be bold and put forward a request for a tutorial - next time you decide to put something together, if you could document the process I'm certain that we would all find it insightful.

Another custom order : coffee table with cross made of charcoal concrete. I'll show each and every step.

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Wood

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Step 1

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Form of the cross

Steel bars are just there to show the pattern :

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3

Which one would you choose ?

[munch]

first one. you sir are amazing at making furniture. I wish my future apartment would be decorated entirely by things made by you. well except for maybe the kitchen and bathroom, unless you have a hidden talent for making those kinds of things too.

[Avantster]

No, it's my father's.
Sometimes cohabitation is a bit difficult...

Now, I'm curious what your father does.

Which one would you choose ?

I like seeing the step by step process. I like 2. as you can still see the divisions between the three planks of wood and it offsets the notches in the wood well. Was considering 1. but would that not be the first time you haven't used a strict right angle cross?

[Arcane]

I think that covering one of the divisions gives an interesting dynamic, but on the other hand it's hard to say how it will look at the ends. If you're going for this I would probably choose 3 as I like it's straightforwardness and the 90° angles.

[bestial]

I had a feeling that the straight #3 option reminded a little bit too much of a flag, although mirrored. But I can't choose between the other two.

[Chant]

Now, I'm curious what your father does.

He's a former engineer, but retired now. He's always been constructing/repairing/DIY everything : washing machine, hi-fi system, cars, gramophones, clocks, etc.

The problem is that he's a very conservative craftsman, only working with noble woods (oak, beech, etc.). So when I enter his workshop with my rough and roten beams, he's like a saville row tailor seeing an in Julius head-to-toe dressed alien going throug the door of his store...

I like seeing the step by step process. I like 2. as you can still see the divisions between the three planks of wood and it offsets the notches in the wood well. Was considering 1. but would that not be the first time you haven't used a strict right angle cross?

Still hesitating between 1 and 2, and you're right, 1 would be the first cross like this, that's why I was leaning towards it.

I wish my future apartment would be decorated entirely by things made by you. well except for maybe the kitchen and bathroom, unless you have a hidden talent for making those kinds of things too.

Yep, did the kitchen and the bathroom myself, using a lot of recovered material.

Kitchen

Bathroom

Political and aesthetical watchword of our place is : "Fuck IKEA !" (hope the Swedish members won't mind...)

[swami]

ha ha ! bravo
Your taste in interior compliments your fashion aesthetic

[munch]

haha! wow, I didn't expect this. that is amazing. I say Fuck IKEA too, really. I don't like IKEA furniture, yet my room is basically 70% IKEA furniture... oh well, young and stupid right! cheap it was though.
I have a workshop too at home, but since I don't give a fuck about my room now and I'll be leaving it soon, I can't motivate making any furniture for it. please let me borrow your fathers workshop if I move to paris

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Step 2

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Step 3

Before

After

[DRRRK]

^Truly exceptional. A piece of art. Speechless...

[munch]

I want to lick it, but then I'd get woodchips on my tongue