J T wrote:
http://www.shopsmithhandson.com/arch...or_project.htm

I've long admirered this type of furniture for years. I consider
them easy to make, and to make nice looking, as well as being very
useful pieces.

Some time back tho I saw a picture of one made by an "artist" or
"artiste", whichever, that plain looked like crap - but the guy was
making them, painting them (and doing a pretty lousy job of that too),
with some nasty colors, and asking some pretty serious money for them.
Don't know how many he was selling, but the quality really sucked. Too
bad, he could have made them well made with no further effort.


Used to have one of those. My first wife may still have it. It was
pine, out of the Hudson River Valley, made about 1800, or maybe
earlier. Nat piece of furniture, even finished in that horrendous deep
red milk paint that was so popular back then. The one I had had a lift
up section in the seat, with box underneath that was handy for storing
kindling.