"Tom Watson" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:02:56 -0500, "Todd Fatheree"
wrote:
"Tom Watson" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:21:06 -0500, "Todd Fatheree"
wrote:
IMHO, I don't think ply has a place in "high end furniture".
And who would know better than you?
Why, the all-knowing Tom Watson, of course.
But then,my definition of high end furniture might differ from someone
else's.
Do tell.
I did. So did a lot of other people. But when you're all-knowing like you,
you can just discount all that.
For those who tend to disagree, I would ask them how many have made what
they
consider to be a fine quality table top from plywood, because that
would
be the perfect example of an application where something large, flat, and
dimensionally stable is desirable.
And yet, when I presented you with exactly that situation, you chose
to nullify my experience, through some feat of mental gymnastics that
I am not privy to.
What about your experience did I nullify? I asked how many make fine
quality table tops from plywood. So far as I can tell, you're the only one
who said they have. Fine. That's one vote for "plywood is an excellent
choice for high quality tables".
If you want to take it to an extreme,I
took a couple of woodworking classes here in Chicago
sigh...
Ah. More arrogance. Obviously, if someone took a class, they don't know
anything.
and the head of the
operation told me that, unlike solid wood, plywood doesn't have a
"soul".
This is damned interesting to me. I have a MA in philosophy and I
have never been able to be sure that I have a soul, let alone delving
into the possibility that wood that is cut thick has a soul, while
wood that is cut thin has none.
Well, as I said, that was the opinion of a very well-respected and very
long-time woodworker who runs the apprenticeship program at Chicago Bauhaus,
not mine. But in my mind, there's a little bit of difference between a
solid piece of wood and a bunch of thin pieces of wood pressed together with
formaldehyde glue in a factory. And if you've read any of the other posts,
you'll find I'm not alone in this thinking.
Now, I'm not ready to go quite that far, but I don't use it in
anything I
consider to be high end.
And your definition of "High End" is what?
Well, there's a certain je ne sais quoi when trying to fully define it, but
it doesn't include sheet goods. Or are you the only person in the universe
capable of making that determination?
As I suspected, there's a difference in my mind between "high end" and
"expensive".
This doesn't sound snotty to you?
No more than you sound like an ass.
There are certainly projects where plywood makes things
infinitely easier.
No ****?
Seriously. Kitchen cabinets come to mind.
todd
Dude:
Stay in Chicago.
You don't know dick and the Pizza in Philly is more than you can
handle.
Hey, when you run out of clever things to say, just call someone a dick. It
really bolsters your argument. I'm not sure how pizza figures into this.
Why don't you just stick to cheesesteak and leave the real pizza to the
pros? Make sure to be safe in the shop too. Climbing down off that high
horse can be dangerous.
Tom Watson - WoodDorker
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/ (website)
todd