Sometimes things just don't work out....?

[fletty]

I love using Asian joinery techniques in my furniture and, through restoring Chinese furniture, I've learnt how do use many of these elegant solutions BUT, when the roles are reversed and Asian woodworkers use western techniques .... well, sometimes it just doesn't work out!

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fletty (still homeward bound)

[NCArcher]

Oops.
What was this on Fletty?

[jimbur]

It's nice to know they're human.

[fletty]

Oops.
What was this on Fletty?

A table top in a 'rural' eating place, there were 6 tables and, on the other 5, the bow ties were the right way round! When they saw me looking at it they apologised and offered to move me because "that table always wobbly".........

fletty

[burraboy]

Good one Fletty, a classic!

[wheelinround]

I hope you set them straight Fletty that it wasn't the table wobbly then in your own true Gentleman Woodworker way extol the virtues of epoxy or CA and filling the gaps.

[Chris Parks]

Must have been a Friday arvo table just before knock off.

[The Bleeder]

I love using Asian joinery techniques in my furniture and, through restoring Chinese furniture, I've learnt how do use many of these elegant solutions BUT, when the roles are reversed and Asian woodworkers use western techniques .... well, sometimes it just doesn't work out!

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fletty (still homeward bound)

Ahh, I see what the problem is....there were no pictures in the instruction manual to copy from.

[Christos]

I see.