Bathroom Furnishings

 Wash stands, towel rakcs and mirrors for thw four washrooms

In place. 

Kirtchen Cupboard

 The photo to copy

Halfway there.

Delivered.

Snooker Table

The base.

With pokets and first cue.

New to the Chinoiserie Collection.

 Think the room is completely furnished now.

Highboy - The Beginning

Photo from Norman's book.

Four legs completed, bar the cropping and front apron and back panel profiled.

The ornamental top is the next challenge.

Proofing top ornament done. 5 drawer bodies completed.

Bodies completed and fronts added.  Now for the varnishing.

Rhode Island Progress

 From Norman's book, through the chaos

to four mates waiting to be clothed.

The beginning.

Just the cushion and the back embroidery to do.

Still need to improve the upholstery to match the quality of the embroidery piece done by Gek as a nod to

 the embroidery on the  late 16th century chair.

Candle Table

First,turn the post.

Machine the slots to take the legs. Use template to achieve 120 deg spacing.

Cut out the legs.

 After turning the top,

and adding the hinge, folding table.

Gek's Embroidery

An embroidery frame.

and in place in the sewing room.

A fire screen,

and in place in the San Fran dinning room.  Lots to do during the lockdown!!

Rhode Island Easy Chair

This is the  chair pictured in Norman's book. The chair was made in c. 1758 and is currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  New York, USA

Use jig to form the front legs.

After fretting the back legs using scaled templates, us jig to machine the slots form cross member joints.

Similar techniques used as in the Boston chair to create the frame.

Big difference, of course, this beauty needs to be upholstered.  First attempt, after much humming and awing.

The second crack at it. Better but with room for much improvement. Well, at least the chair looks 'in scale'.  Did wonder as it was being put together.  Looked a bit on the big side, it did.

Lowboy

The photo on the front of Norman's book,

from which these miniatures are derived. Even have a tea cup and a silver candle stick !!

Lowboy

Norman's lowboy. This item of furniture had multiple uses from dressing table to dinning room side table, which is what it will be used for in the San Fran house.

Those legs are very slender and so in the model are integral with the 'chests' corners. A jig made for milling out the curves. That new lamp is a boon. why didn't I get one ages ago.

 The scaled copies of the aprons used to guide the fretsaw.

Having pre-cut the  side and back tangs, trim them to fit the slots in the legs.

Glue the side pieces and legs,

before assembling in the fixture.

Ready for the top.

The first frame assembled. Front and draws still to do.

Drawers made and being varnished.

Candle Table

First attempt at turning a table top.Used double sided tap to stick the blank to the the turning plate.

The table is hinged and was used as a place to put your candle before  gas lighting became common place. Need to find some very fine grained mahogany for this piece, Cuban perhaps. But where to get such small blanks?

Goes nicely with the Boston.

Template Built

Hand finished components to act as templates for subsequent builds.