That's the most interesting peek I've had in a long time :-)
So many details! I'd buy the 'achitectural brass' (doorhandles).
Nailing your dovetails seems like a good idea untill you get out your plane to adjust the fit. Of course, you can sink the nail a bit more, but with the good glue we have these days, what's the point of intentionally dumbing down to an inferior solution? Because it's somehow more old-fashioned and therefore more 'virtuous'? This is where you Americans go astray ...
Glad you enjoyed it. A good point on the modern glue, one I hadn’t considered.
I was reading recently that in colonial America through dovetails were viewed as “provincial” joinery and the real pros would rarely leave a dovetail on a show surface. To that end, I wonder if the nail was used on simple storage crates and boxes and they skipped glue altogether?
As for the brass, there were some prime specimens in there. They had an entire wall of what I think is called the “escutcheon,” the plate where the knob and keyhole would be.
That's the most interesting peek I've had in a long time :-)
So many details! I'd buy the 'achitectural brass' (doorhandles).
Nailing your dovetails seems like a good idea untill you get out your plane to adjust the fit. Of course, you can sink the nail a bit more, but with the good glue we have these days, what's the point of intentionally dumbing down to an inferior solution? Because it's somehow more old-fashioned and therefore more 'virtuous'? This is where you Americans go astray ...
Glad you enjoyed it. A good point on the modern glue, one I hadn’t considered.
I was reading recently that in colonial America through dovetails were viewed as “provincial” joinery and the real pros would rarely leave a dovetail on a show surface. To that end, I wonder if the nail was used on simple storage crates and boxes and they skipped glue altogether?
As for the brass, there were some prime specimens in there. They had an entire wall of what I think is called the “escutcheon,” the plate where the knob and keyhole would be.