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27th February 2006, 04:08 PM #1
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Backless Wall Unit
Heres a Blackwood wall unit and matching Low-line unit i just finished. The idea of the wall unit was to keep it clean and simple so just a few family treasures could be displayed. So i went for no back look to keep all the emphasis on the displayed pieces and not the bulk of the unit.
The design looks simple but it was a bugger to make. The doors are solid panels with tenoned breadboard ends top and bottom that run across the width. When the doors are fully opend the alignment of the doors must be spot on and not skewif. very tricky. The Low line was worse, as the two ends are draws and the two middle panells doors. Fitting them was a nightmare and it took over four hours just for the low-line. Their is a 30mm gap between the doors and top with a squared chiseled finger pulls to open them. I hate knobs so it was a logical way for me
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27th February 2006, 05:19 PM #2
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Beautiful work Lignum.
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27th February 2006, 07:21 PM #3
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Superb Lignum
I really like that simple open look that you've created with the display 'cabinet'
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27th February 2006, 07:40 PM #4
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Minimalistical style... less is more, great work Lig love it!
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27th February 2006, 07:50 PM #5
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Lignum the shelves on the backless unit - do they have breadboard ends as well? Have the ends be ebonised, or is that the timber used?
Exception work, by the way. Oh for a shop large enough to attempt this scale of project.
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27th February 2006, 08:53 PM #6
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27th February 2006, 09:32 PM #7
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Yep, that would be good!
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27th February 2006, 10:03 PM #8
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Very elegant display unit Lignum .
The low line unit door hinges appear to be fixed to the breadboard ends . Have you done something to avoid having the hinge screws in the end grain :confused:
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27th February 2006, 10:05 PM #9
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Hi Lig, great work
! As someone else mentioned, you have achieved a 'lightness' in the design, and I am always a fan of minimalism.
Are the numerous breadboard end's there for any particular reason, or are they just part of the design aesthetic?I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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27th February 2006, 10:19 PM #10
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I can't add anymore to what has already been said - great work!
Bob
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27th February 2006, 10:31 PM #11
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Love the light, airy design, and the clean, crisp lines. I'm not normally a fan of breadboard ends, but here they serve nicely to define the ends of the shelves. How did you join the shelves to the uprights?
I'd like to see it with the doors and drawers open too.Those are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others.
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27th February 2006, 10:33 PM #12
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just love it, incoming greenie, Fletty
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27th February 2006, 10:56 PM #13
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Bewdiful, super design and execution!
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27th February 2006, 11:16 PM #14
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I think it looks great.
well thought out by looks of it
well done.
greenie launched
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28th February 2006, 12:05 AM #15
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What they said...just beautiful, Lignum!
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