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dsquire:
Marv

I edited yours to show it as embeded. I went looking again and found a nice dressing table to go along with the other pieces.

David

--- Quote from: Meldonmech on November 23, 2014, 11:18:46 AM ---
Don, what a fabulous piece of design, engineering, and cabinet making. It looks like a lifetimes work.

Thanks for posting, has it given you any inspiration?

--- Quote ---It certainly has given me lots to procrastinate about.

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Cheers David

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--- Quote from: AdeV on November 20, 2014, 07:05:53 AM ---That's a bit too gothic even for my tastes, but the mechanisms look to be pure genius. All weights and springs presumably... I wonder how you reset the rotating secret compartments...

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Ade
If I wanted to get a lot of work done it would not be be my first choice either. It would be a bit of a challenge to figure out all the hardware and mechanical components for sure.

--- Quote from: S. Heslop on November 19, 2014, 09:24:31 PM ---Someone must've either had alot of money or alot of time for that monstrosity to be made.

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S.Heskop
They had either time and very good wood crafting and mechanical skills or a fist full of money to pay someone that did have those first two qualities.

Cheers :beer:

Don

S. Heslop:
It annoys me that in an ara of real exciting and clever engineering people gravitate towards this antiques roadshow crap. It's an ugly badly designed cabinet with some springs and pulleys to open the doors. Compared to something like a marine chronometer from the same time it looks like a joke, but people will get excited because it's tickles that part of them that wants to be a nobleman.

DavidA:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I know people who think that anyone who spends time in a pokey shed with a lathe and lets some kid in to watch are potential child abusers and should be reported to the police.

We live in a strange world.

Dave

mklotz:

--- Quote from: S. Heslop on November 24, 2014, 08:58:43 AM ---It annoys me that in an ara of real exciting and clever engineering people gravitate towards this antiques roadshow crap. It's an ugly badly designed cabinet with some springs and pulleys to open the doors. Compared to something like a marine chronometer from the same time it looks like a joke, but people will get excited because it's tickles that part of them that wants to be a nobleman.

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I feel for you. It must be really sad to be unable to appreciate any art that does not fit your narrow definition.

DavidA:
Born in 1711. So no machine tools used. Maybe a pole lathe.

It is very much of it's time ard place. Whatever one things of the style, the craftsmanship cannot be denied.

Also, maybe he had no use for a chronometer.

Could John Harrison have made a equally good Cabinet ?

Dave

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