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Chicken Foot from Southern Furniture

Robert W. Lang — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:34:01 +0000

Over on the Chris Schwarz blog, some of the people commenting on his review of Furniture in the Southern Style mentioned one of the photos in the introduction, and the reference to it being a misrepresentation of a ball and claw foot. I thought it would be a good idea to post the photo in … Read more »

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‘Furniture in the Southern Style’ – Just in Time for the Holidays

Megan Fitzpatrick — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:30:00 +0000

Today, I picked up desk copies of “Furniture in the Southern Style: 27 Shop Drawings of Furniture from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts” – which is great news because that means the book, the companion CD of SketchUp models and the book/CD combo are in the warehouse, and starting to ship out to … Read more »

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Video: Pegging for Destruction

Christopher Schwarz — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:48:37 +0000

When I build a reproduction, I try to remain as faithful as I can to the construction of the original – even if my modern brain says it’s not ideal. The original builder of this early 18th-century table used several techniques that wouldn’t fly in a modern shop. For one: The bottom of the drawer is … Read more »

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SketchUp and Southern Furniture Book

Robert W. Lang — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:00:05 +0000

As we get closer to sending our forthcoming book about furniture from the MESDA collection to the printer, I thought it might be interesting to take you inside the sausage factory. The book consists mostly of measured drawings of 27 “less than formal” pieces of furniture made in the southern United States between 1650 and … Read more »

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Some Things Never Change

Robert W. Lang — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:21:47 +0000

I’ve spent the last few months staring at photographs of pieces from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) collection, while working on the drawings for our new book. While Glen D. Huey and I have great resources to work with, there have been times when we haven’t been quite sure of what we’re … Read more »

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Slip-fit Corrects a Slip in Planning

Glen D. Huey — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:37:01 +0000

I’ve been working, albeit slowly, on a small desk from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) – I wrote about full-blind dovetails found on the desk in an early post (read it here). The base of the desk holds two drawers set side-by-side. That means there is a drawer runner centered in the … Read more »

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Different Dovetail Joinery

Glen D. Huey — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:32:42 +0000

You’ve read a number of posts on this blog about our upcoming book based on furniture, photos and information found at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) and in Old Salem. I’m working on drawings of a few of the pieces and have come across a second use of a dovetail joint that … Read more »

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Do You See What I See?

Robert W. Lang — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:50:08 +0000

As Glen Huey and I work on the drawings for our forthcoming book on early furniture from the American South, we keep having a similar conversation. We spent some time at both the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, and Old Salem Village in Winston-Salem, N.C. We shared time (and good Southern food) with guys … Read more »

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Southern Furniture Book

Megan Fitzpatrick — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:16:10 +0000

We’ve received a lot of good questions, suggestions and comments about our upcoming book on furniture from the collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) – thank you! Many readers have commented that the selection we posted doesn’t fully represent all the many types of furniture built in the South – and … Read more »

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New Book on Southern Furniture: What Pieces Would You Include?

Glen D. Huey — Tue, 17 May 2011 13:22:50 +0000

If you’re a student of furniture, furniture scholar, woodworker or just looking for another creative outlet, it’s a good thing that you stopped by to read this post. Popular Woodworking Magazine sent two editors (Yay, me!) to the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and to Old Salem – both in Winston-Salem, NC – to … Read more »

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