But do you find that when you look at the old, original A&C furniture,
it doesn't feature as much ray fleck/flake as some of the reproduction
pieces do?
Drew
In article 1059922811.683016@sj-nntpcache-5,
Bruce wrote:
Yep, Ive found the same thing. Works about the same for "wormy maple"
I have a shop stool and a "first aid" cabinet in the shop that are made
of wormy maple and most people ask "What happened to that!?" but there
are a few that ask, "Can you get more of that wood?". I am building a
mission style glider rocker for display and using flat sawn white oak
because that will generate more general business. Many of the people
that know about figured woods will ask if you can make it that way or
have a specific wood in mind. I watch for those customers, they are the
jewels in a sea of sameness.
BRuce
Rumpty wrote:
I produce and sell a lot of "Mission" furniture, I use flat sawn red oak.
90% of the customers don't know the difference between 1/4 sawn and flat,
nor do they care. It's the style and proportions of your work that sells and
not the figure of the grain. Also, many customers consider the ray flake a
*defect*.
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"Drew D. Saur" wrote in message
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Hi, all.
I've recently gotten pretty interested in Arts & Crafts furniture (both
reproduction and antique) and am wondering something: in the recent
renaissance, have some A&C reproduction designers gotten too carried
away with "pure," extremely highly-figured quartersawn oak? It seems to
me, as I study older (original) A&C pieces, one would generally find
that pieces were constructed of a good mix of quartersawn and slightly
riftsawn lumber, even in quite prominent areas. This is true of both
"big name" (Roycroft, Stickley, Limbert) and "unsigned" pieces.
Today, some reproduction A&C furniture can be found that still uses such
a mix, while other, apparently "high end" pieces, are made of so much
highly figured oak that they don't resemble *anything* I have ever seen
from the distant past. The conspicuous ray flake in these pieces is
almost ridiculous. They don't really seem authentic to me when compared
against period pieces.
Is it possible that today's high-end craftsman furniture reproduction
"masters" have somewhat missed a point of practicality of the original
Arts & Crafts movement? Or am I missing something?
Thanks for any historical guidance anyone can offer!
Drew
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