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?QuoteIt certainly has given me lots to procrastinate about.
Cheers David
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...Ade
Someone must've either had alot of money or alot of time for that monstrosity to be made.S.Heskop
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.
So I can take it that you have no liking for the ornate Victorian engineering either.
Dave.
With this desk I don't feel the mechanisms are particularly clever or revolutionary, it might've taken the guy a few months to complete it but it wouldn't have been too taxing