Nice Legs

[Overtime]

Project time

Here are some Greene and Greene legs right out of Darrell Peart's Book, Greene & Greene Design Elements for the Workshop

I really love the look of the detents on the foot

Made the thickness of the legs at 1 3/8ths - a little lighter look than 1 1/2" but still stout for these small tables.

These are Made of Genuine Mahogany with false Gabon Ebony plugs. They are not pillowed or proud. Maybe next time, when I want to truly replicate the authentic style.
The design of these side tables is meant to have some G & G features but with a slight modern twist. The plugs are sanded flush and were cut using a 1/4" mortise bit, at a depth of about 1/4"

The legs are 24 3/4" tall 625mm and 1 3/8" thick - 35mm

The leg detents were made using this jig.

The aprons were pattern cut using this jig. The parts were cut using a routher table with the top bearing bit.

Here are the aprons and lower rails with stopped dados in them to receive the slats that were almost waste as my original design called for an open lower area with no shelving. In the spirit of Nahman I used the scrap cutoffs from the milling of the 8/4" leg stock.

And here is a couple of pics of the dry fit

The top will not be the bread board with proud ebony spline, but will be of a more contemporary style that I hope will blend nicely withe the G & G elements shown so far.

The tops will be the premier feature on the tables. I have something special planned that I hope will take the design to a fresh level but yet complimentary to the style of arts and crafts.

The size of the tables are 14" square - 355mm without the tops.

Tools used so far:

SS cabinet saw
Grizzly G0586 8" jointer
Powermatic 15S Planer
Performax 22 44
Grizzly G0563 OSC Edge sander
Grizzly 513 17" band saw
Powermatic 701 Bench Top mortise machine
Jessem XL router table
Porter cable 310 router
Porter cable 5" Quick sand ROS
Tormek Sharpening system-jointer blades, chisels,hand planes
MFT
TS55
Domino

And that's just about my entire arsenal of tools 

These parts are ready for final sanding and glue up.

Tops are almost done , they have some inlay and spline work.

Finish will be Target garnet shelac sealer and then USL.

 

[jonny round boy]

Nice, and unusual - I've never heard of 'Greene & Greene' before. Wikipedia, here I come...

 

[Brice Burrell]

Nice, and unusual - I've never heard of 'Greene & Greene' before. Wikipedia, here I come...

Jonny you would have if you lived on the left coast of the US.

Nice work Patrick.

 

[Per Swenson]

Sniff..

Why, I rather imagine we have heard them here on the Right Coast as well. ;D

Per

 

[Overtime]

A little history on the G & G design style

Arts and Crafts - late 1890s early 1900s

John Ruskin & William Morris - English Arts and Crafts movement

Gustav Stickley and brothers with his take on the Arts and crafts in America

Then Greene and Greene brothers (designers and woodworkers) inspired and infuenced by Stickley's work create their own version of Arts and Craft stuff in America.

They could not have done it without  the help of master craftsmen the Hall brothers - They created the pieces under the direction of G & G

 

[poto]

Nice work, Overtime. If you want to see a really nice example of a Greene and Greene re-creation, you should go for dinner at A.R. Valentien restaurant at the Lodge at Torrey Pines just north of San Diego. The food's amazing, but the woodwork in this hotel will knock your socks off. Not a single butt joint in the place. Even the cutlery is hand-hammered. It's really lovely.

 

[dirtydeeds]

i have always seen a remarkable similarity between styles between america and england at that period in time

until now i didnt know the styles were so directly intertwined

my understanding of the arts and crafts style in england was that it was reaction against mass production and a return to traditional hand made articals

the arts and crafts people were however directly influenced by mass production techniques

they realised that they needed to use simple joints, "straighter" "simplified" lines to compete in the real world 

 

[Overtime]

Here is where the tops are headed.

Glass mosaic 1" tiles

This is how I mounted the tile sheet ( comes in 1' square sheet)

Substrate is 1/2" MDO 2 sided with 1/4" HardiBacker.  Construction adhesive (spread with a notched trowel) was used to glue the hardi onto the MDO. Then modified thinset was used to bind the glass tile to the hardi.
Overall thickness about 1 1/8"

The top mitered frame has a rabbit to set over tile assembly and constructive adhesive will bind them together.
Those are ebony inlays covering the not quite so perfect mitre joints  : At least the inlays came out just fine.

Next I'm going to add a small keyed miter joint slot of ebony on the edge of all 4 corners just below the inlays. Then I'll ease the the outer perimeter of the top with a slight roundover. This will expose the mahogany at the corners where the inlays create a hard terminated look at this point. And finally the bottom of the top edge will be tapered to bring the thickness down just a tad.

The tiles will get an epoxy sanded grout with a bead of matching silicone along the inside seam in contact with the wood.

 

[Overtime]

Poto; Torry Pines looks just incredible. The pics I found are off the charts.
I have not heard of this hotel. And It looks like I'll have to get there some time.
The lobby windows and doorway - wow.
The restaurant booth's framework - nice
Detail every where.

I'm a huge fan of most all things arts and crafts. Roycroft, Stickley, G & G.

 

[poto]

You wouldn't believe the brick wall outside the hotel. It's like something the Hobbits would build - lumpy, windy, and full of boulders, with rosemary growing up the nooks and crannies (what is a cranny anyway?). Inside the hotel the trim boards are all joined with pinned scarf joints. The lights in the restaurant are hand-made cut glass, with hand-hammered metal accents. The fireplace has amazing celadon tiles, with Stickley-style rocking chairs.

I think the rooms go for about $400 per night, and I haven't had a meal there for less than $200 for 2 people. Worth every penny. One of the best restaurants I've ever been to. The atmosphere is worth the price of admission...

 

[dirtydeeds]

cranny, rhymes with fanny

now you need to know that american and english anatomy

differs some what...........................  8)

dont for goodness sake let the ameican public in on this............

or mathew is in for a bit of a problem  :