Comments on: ‘Make a Joint Stool from a Tree’ (and More on Follansbee)

By: lastwordsmith

lastwordsmith — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:23:55 +0000

I just got my copy, and I’m really enjoying it so far (despite one or two typos). I’m probably in the minority here, but I wish the book had even more historical information. I love the detailed pictures of the original pieces showing the joinery. Since most museums won’t let me turn their antique furniture upside down, I’m always excited when a book gives me some close-up pictures and descriptions.

As to naming the eras… yeah. Renaissance, Elizabethan, Jacobean, early modern… I sometimes just fall back on century names, which I can’t even do with Shakespeare because he spans two centuries. “In late-sixteenth/early-seventeeth-century drama…” Cumbersome to say the least. I have the same problems with my area of specialization, 20th century literature. “Victorian” goes all the way to 1914, even though “Modernist” writers are active in the 1910s, and at some point there’s a shift to “Postmodernism” though nobody can say precisely when.

Why can’t cultural movements be sensible and schedule all their revolutions for years ending in 00?

-Steve

By: pmcgee

pmcgee — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:34:24 +0000

*We* will be the judge of that, I think.

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:43:06 +0000

I’m only somewhat tetched – not fully crazy.

By: Steve_OH

Steve_OH — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:44:30 +0000

Oh, come on. A crazy cat lady is NEVER fully felined.

-Steve

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:16:34 +0000

Gosh — thanks for the offer, but I’m fully felined at the moment!

By: thomaswhoyt

thomaswhoyt — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:37:05 +0000

thanks for the reply and the ideas. btw, I thought of getting you a ‘gift’ recently.
Local newspaper here in KY listed

“FREE. Two Siamese Outdoor cats. Not very Friendly. Not good with children.” I didn’t go pick ‘em up. I may be able to locate them if your feral cat population is down…. Could probably keep ‘em in a box until the weekend.

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:49:14 +0000

Not all legs on joint stools were turned — many have simple chamfers on the four long edges between the aprons and stretchers to lighten the look. You don’t need a lathe to make a handsome joint stool (I didn’t turn my legs, and while I’m not so bold as to claim it looks handsome, well, I like it!).

By: thomaswhoyt

thomaswhoyt — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:50:31 +0000

suggestion- when publishing one may increase sales by remembering those who don’t have a lathe and/or not artistic enuf to use one!