On 4/5/2013 2:13 PM, Greg Guarino wrote:
On 4/5/2013 2:23 PM, Swingman wrote:
The client having been out of town, I had the opportunity this morning
to save her a trip and deliver the existing chair and the two
reproductions I made to the upholstery shop, where they were
re-upholstering the other chairs in the set; both so the upholstery shop
could deliver them all to her at the same time; and to give me the
possibly last opportunity to photograph them in their final state:

https://plus.google.com/photos/11135...642?banner=pwa




Nice job. It's a good thing I don't do woodworking for a living, because
the client would have to pry work like that out of my cold, dead,
splintered fingers. I might not even let people sit on them in my own
house. I'd build a glass-enclosed showcase to put them in and wouldn't
allow anyone to touch that either.

Speaking of clients, any chance yours will take issue with the more
prominent grain on the reproductions? That's got to be another tricky
aspect of being in the "making anything custom" business; even if you
make it *better* than the original, it may not be exactly how they
imagined it.

She has no problem with that, and the possibility was discussed upfront
.... there are nine other chairs besides the original in the photo, some
of which have a good of grain on the back rests and aprons also (I
actually got to see the others at the upholstery shop the morning and
that was one thing I took particular notice of)

All the other chairs are factory made and were bought at a furniture
store many years ago, and although they are "oak", there is hardly a
single piece of wood in the lot.

IOW, almost every component of the originals has a glue line, and many
non-matching grain patterns in the face and edges of each component,
where you can see where different boards were glued together to make up
the stock for the factory production.

A common practice with factory furniture, economizing by gluing up the
scraps from production.

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