View Poll Results: Do you like this sort of thing?

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  • I'm starting bidding straight away!

    2 4.65%

  • That's not woodwork

    4 9.30%

  • what a waste of a burl

    25 58.14%

  • is ok

    14 32.56%
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  1. 13th February 2008, 01:44 PM #1
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    Default Is this woodwork?

    I stumbled onto this table on ebay. It is close to the singularly most grotesque piece of furniture I've ever seen. Whadiya reckon, is it worth the money?

    http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Unique-Tasman...QQcmdZViewItem

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  2. 13th February 2008, 02:03 PM #2
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    $5000 is cheap. I have seen uglier pieces for a lot more money.

    Of course it is worth the money. It is art.
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  3. 13th February 2008, 02:08 PM #3
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    I don't like that sort of thing, but as Wongo says, it's art, so it follows that it will evoke strong aesthetic responses, mine is a strong Yuk.

    BUT if it had already been slabbed, it wasn't the maker who wasted the burl (and you can buy it to reuse the slab!!!). The fact is that it is woodwork, even tho' I don't like it,so I voted is OK. But I think, I couldn't give a Rat's Ring for it expresses my view best.
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  4. 13th February 2008, 02:11 PM #4
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    Hmm, I've seen something like that before somewhere...

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  5. 13th February 2008, 02:20 PM #5
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    No, it's not the one I was thinking of: http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ead.php?t=9488

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  6. 13th February 2008, 02:36 PM #6
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    I think for that sort of money I personally would rather buy a giant peg made from houn.....now thats art

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  7. 13th February 2008, 02:40 PM #7
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    i like it. looks cool
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  8. 13th February 2008, 02:54 PM #8
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    I want the peg....
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  9. 13th February 2008, 05:47 PM #9
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    $5000.

    Tell 'im he's dreamin'.

    Not woodwork. Not art.

    Waste of wood.
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  10. 13th February 2008, 07:50 PM #10
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    What TL said...and a waste of a good burl to boot.
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  11. 13th February 2008, 08:07 PM #11
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    Each to his own, not to my taste at all, but someone will probably love it, after all the constructor obviously loved it or he/she wouldnt have made it. (I guess a few would look at some of my stuff and say yuk) .Looks too plastic coated.

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  12. 13th February 2008, 10:52 PM #12
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    Beauty in the eye of the beholder I suppose. Doesn't do much for me but then again I am not very arty.
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  13. 13th February 2008, 11:49 PM #13
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    I think if I glued all my offcuts together in random order I could call it an "artwork" and start plans for retiring ......$5k for that ??....just goes to show a fool and his money can be easily parted huh
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  14. 14th February 2008, 12:08 AM #14
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    I was under the opinion that the same myrtle also grew in Victoria.
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  15. 14th February 2008, 01:15 AM #15
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    How can one man have so much talent!?

    I hate that style of "furniture" with a passion! It looks like a rather painfully formed cow pat!
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