wroughtn_harv
Super Member
I found this while surfing my passion and thought of <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.metalsmith.org/gall/marciamc/johndeer-chairs.jpg>you</A> and your passion.
For my Deere friends.....
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wasabi
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Not Deere related, nor do I own one, but your post has me wonderin'....ever make any furniture yourself, Harv?
John Weaver
Silver Member
Hey, that looks like it could go well with my Deere. What is the website? John.
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wroughtn_harv
Super Member
Click on the grey "you" in my post and it'll take you right there. Some artist blacksmith didn't have enough problems evidently and got involved with tractors too. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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wroughtn_harv
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Funny you should ask. Just Friday I had an interior designer show up at the shop and she wants me to make at least one coffee table for a Ramada Inn and maybe another along with a game table.
She wants them to be unique and original and appropriate for an oil field boom town.
We did a coffee table awhile back, my wife and me. We found a piece of granite counter top surplus in my scrap pile that was colored right but really irregular in shape. So we got out the worm drive saw with the diamond blade and I started cutting off the corners. What's interesting is if you cut off enough corners you'll have some beautiful natural radii.
The pattern of the granite was so spectacular that I made the simplest forged frame possible. To make a fancy frame for that piece of rock would be like putting spinnner hubcaps on a Mercedes to spruce it up.
She wants them to be unique and original and appropriate for an oil field boom town.
We did a coffee table awhile back, my wife and me. We found a piece of granite counter top surplus in my scrap pile that was colored right but really irregular in shape. So we got out the worm drive saw with the diamond blade and I started cutting off the corners. What's interesting is if you cut off enough corners you'll have some beautiful natural radii.
The pattern of the granite was so spectacular that I made the simplest forged frame possible. To make a fancy frame for that piece of rock would be like putting spinnner hubcaps on a Mercedes to spruce it up.
wasabi
Platinum Member
Harv,
Although I have never personally worked with metal, in a previous career "incarnation" (when I was much younger), I spent fifteen years as owner/designer/operator of a design/build business with fine hardwoods as the medium. Most of our work (fifteen full time craftsmen) was custom for restaraunts, offices, churches, designers and homeowners.
Concurrent with five of those years I owned a contemporary furniture/art/crafts gallery representing over 100 artists and employing six designers on staff. My wife is also an accomplished interior designer (1996 Recipient of Southeast Designer of the Year award), so I have a sense of how artists often "skip"-think and certainly appreciate the challenges of custom work.
One of my personal favorite challenges was chair design. When I saw your posted Deere pics, my mind could not help but wander into the what-if metal realm, especially as regards your bending abilities. Mayhaps some one of these days we'll get a chance to get together and talk about the possibilities...
You do nice work and clearly enjoy it. I admire and respect that.
Although I have never personally worked with metal, in a previous career "incarnation" (when I was much younger), I spent fifteen years as owner/designer/operator of a design/build business with fine hardwoods as the medium. Most of our work (fifteen full time craftsmen) was custom for restaraunts, offices, churches, designers and homeowners.
Concurrent with five of those years I owned a contemporary furniture/art/crafts gallery representing over 100 artists and employing six designers on staff. My wife is also an accomplished interior designer (1996 Recipient of Southeast Designer of the Year award), so I have a sense of how artists often "skip"-think and certainly appreciate the challenges of custom work.
One of my personal favorite challenges was chair design. When I saw your posted Deere pics, my mind could not help but wander into the what-if metal realm, especially as regards your bending abilities. Mayhaps some one of these days we'll get a chance to get together and talk about the possibilities...
You do nice work and clearly enjoy it. I admire and respect that.
BillG_in_TX
Veteran Member
John,
It looks like those aren't the only JD pieces done by that artist. Check <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.metalsmith.org/gall/marciamc/index.htm>here</A>.
It looks like those aren't the only JD pieces done by that artist. Check <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.metalsmith.org/gall/marciamc/index.htm>here</A>.
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wroughtn_harv
Super Member
Evening Doug,
I just had an interior designer over the other day at the shop. She's wanting some ideas for some tables. What I've got in mind right now is using some one inch drill stem. Take four pieces and coil them around a piece of two and a half inch material. Then pull the ends off in a natural pattern where they end up at the four corners to support the granite top. And of course the four ends at the bottom of the coil would mirror the spread of the top for the legs of the table.
I think the image of the coil and then the spread will just be kewl. Of course I'm not sure what the finish would be. A part of me loves a sand blast and then acid bath followed with a clear coat about six hours later when the rust (patina) is a light tan.
I'm glad you respect me for having fun. Most folks resent that part of me./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
Just for grins one time I made a glider out of chainlink fence tubing and one inch mesh chainlink for fabric. Wierd as it sounds the thing was super comfortable. I still have it at the shop. One of the grin generator thingys you just hate to part with.
I just had an interior designer over the other day at the shop. She's wanting some ideas for some tables. What I've got in mind right now is using some one inch drill stem. Take four pieces and coil them around a piece of two and a half inch material. Then pull the ends off in a natural pattern where they end up at the four corners to support the granite top. And of course the four ends at the bottom of the coil would mirror the spread of the top for the legs of the table.
I think the image of the coil and then the spread will just be kewl. Of course I'm not sure what the finish would be. A part of me loves a sand blast and then acid bath followed with a clear coat about six hours later when the rust (patina) is a light tan.
I'm glad you respect me for having fun. Most folks resent that part of me./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
Just for grins one time I made a glider out of chainlink fence tubing and one inch mesh chainlink for fabric. Wierd as it sounds the thing was super comfortable. I still have it at the shop. One of the grin generator thingys you just hate to part with.
wasabi
Platinum Member
<font color=blue>I think the image of the coil and then the spread will just be kewl</font color=blue>...you'll splay the feet of course....toes?
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Harv:
I see where your wife helped you out on that granite countertop project. Does she know her way around the shop, and does she help you out quite a bit?
I see where your wife helped you out on that granite countertop project. Does she know her way around the shop, and does she help you out quite a bit?
