Early Access Video: Furniture Forensics with a 1910 Daybed
Added 2022-09-16 20:38:30 +0000 UTCFriends:
I've been waiting months to bring you this new Furniture Forensics! This day bed is a puzzling mixture of styles and processes. It took a LOT of work to unravel this piece and tell the whole story.
In making this video, I got familiar with the Edwardian period, which is knew nothing about. It was a fascinating time and I'm excited to show you what I learned.
Happy Saturday!
--Rex
Comments
I've been busy so I'm late to the party... If my patreon sub is funding videos like these it's money well spent.
Aaron I Officer
2022-09-21 09:29:16 +0000 UTCI'm looking forward to more new builds :D I often fish old furniture out of dumpsters, or 'rescue' it from thrift stores. I'm always torn between restore and... hey look, free lumber!
Conor Mow-Lowry
2022-09-20 10:26:00 +0000 UTCRichard really has some great ideas. Another British (Welsh) woodworker I like (and who sometimes uses the bench hook/shooting board trick) is Graham Blackburn. He's still kinda new to YT, but he seems familiar in some way. I can't place him. https://www.youtube.com/user/gjmunc
Michael Bennett
2022-09-19 20:56:19 +0000 UTCThank you for your response and recommendation. I very much appreciate it.
Jennessa Lynam
2022-09-19 17:40:40 +0000 UTCYou're far too kind. Thanks.
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 14:05:24 +0000 UTCMaguire.
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 14:05:04 +0000 UTCI regret that I found that video on my own...but I do read the forum!
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 14:04:54 +0000 UTCI like Suizan saws a lot. I recommend a long dozuki. Mine is 9" or more. Longer saws clear the sawdust better. The 6" models are less useful and the cost difference is modest.
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 14:04:29 +0000 UTCDidn't I just do that?
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 14:03:04 +0000 UTCI've watched his whole bench series. (After I built the Joiners' Bench). Solid gold.
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 14:02:35 +0000 UTCRichard's take on the shooting board really blew my mind.
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 14:02:03 +0000 UTCI don't think so. I honestly don't enjoy furniture restoration at all. It's whole different skill set and I just want to build.
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 14:01:25 +0000 UTCThese things happen. I try to roll with it.
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 14:00:49 +0000 UTCThe links are in the video description. Just click through to youtube.
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 13:59:49 +0000 UTCI will try hard to find it a home.
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 13:59:17 +0000 UTCAwesome!
Rex Krueger
2022-09-19 13:59:01 +0000 UTCHm. So the paying customers can't see the links on Patreon? Doesn't seem right.
Boyce Rensberger
2022-09-18 20:57:04 +0000 UTCAnother great video, I love these deep dives “ under the covers” of this classic furniture.
cliff whitefoot
2022-09-18 09:27:58 +0000 UTCi got a 6" Suizan Dozuki. Works fine, but i don't cut much fine stuff. I tend to cut larger stuff - and the Kataba saw is excellent for that - step up from a Ryoba
John Morrison
2022-09-18 06:57:18 +0000 UTCusually show when it gets to Youtube
John Morrison
2022-09-18 06:52:31 +0000 UTCGreat. Love the history!
Robert Bullock
2022-09-17 22:22:38 +0000 UTCThanks for the look at this furniture. The analysis was helpful. I am interested in more information about upholstered furniture. How the frame is structured to support the coverings.
John Thomas
2022-09-17 21:52:55 +0000 UTCI've always thought the daybed was made for someone suffering from excessive intestinal gas who needed to be inclined in the perfect position to completely expel any and all vapors.
STFU FFS (Martín)
2022-09-17 18:18:41 +0000 UTCAh, my geek safe place - Rex's Furniture Forensics 👌🏻
Mike Smith
2022-09-17 13:09:17 +0000 UTCVery interesting. Your explanations remind me of Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Very intense with authority. If it was built today it would have pocket holes and screws with CNC decorations.
Skully Wood and Metal
2022-09-17 11:26:19 +0000 UTCthank you, this was unexpected and really nice to see. I have listened to the Woodworking Talk Show recently so getting a new forensic video two days later was just increadible
Otakar Schön
2022-09-17 08:59:05 +0000 UTCMy favorite sub-series on your channel. The combination of history, woodworking and the detailed observation and analysis of other people's work is simply brilliant. Keep it up!
LiraNuna
2022-09-17 04:18:54 +0000 UTCGreat video.
Todd Maurer
2022-09-17 03:03:12 +0000 UTCRichard Who?
Steve
2022-09-17 00:06:51 +0000 UTCAll Japanese saws flex. If you want, Dozuki makes one with a metal backing. 6 inches deep about 35 bucks on amazon. Works great as a dove tale saw.
Dan Delie
2022-09-16 23:12:57 +0000 UTCNow I know you're reading the forum, since that video you reference was posted in one of my threads!
Kenneth Carlile
2022-09-16 23:08:31 +0000 UTCRex, I was wondering if you have any Recommendations on a decent inexpensive Dozuki Japanese saw? I already own a Ryoba Japanese saw but find that sometimes the blade flexes a bit too much when I don't want it to.
Jennessa Lynam
2022-09-16 22:29:19 +0000 UTCTell me about its problems...
Knathaniel C
2022-09-16 21:58:09 +0000 UTCRichard is really good I own all of his videos he sales on theenglishwoodworker.com
Aaron Sprague
2022-09-16 21:50:30 +0000 UTCGreat video. You made me check my clock. I thought I'd slept thru a day for a moment. I have been known to do that from time to time. I used to work in one of those modern furniture factories. We made solid wood unfinished flat-pack furniture kits. We sanded everything to at least 120-grit, back, and front. Hardly anything had a mortise & tenon and if it did, that joint was pre-assembled. I love doing furniture forensics on my own. I have an old chair that I had as a kid. Think... classic "comfy chair" that's kid-sized and has rockers. I will take it apart this winter, draw some blueprints, and make a few copies, complete with Naugahyde upholstery if I can find some. I've never seen a Nauga. They may be extinct. BTW, I've been watching the English woodworker for a number of years now. He's very entertaining and I always come away from his videos having learned something. Everyone seems to think a shooting board needs to be some fancy-schmancy jig when all you really need is a bench hook with a straight side and a square fence.
Michael Bennett
2022-09-16 21:49:44 +0000 UTCNo complaints here!🙂
John Pankow
2022-09-16 21:33:50 +0000 UTCDo you think you'll restore one of these pieces sometime? Not an antique restoration, but a minimal functional restoration.
Conor Mow-Lowry
2022-09-16 21:30:26 +0000 UTCI just had the opposite happen. I spent the evening drafting a detailed email to a college on my tablet that I want him to see first thing next day. A couple of days later I pickup this table again, and the email is still sitting there. As it has been said "if you really want to mess something up, use a computer" So true.
Richard C von Brecht
2022-09-16 21:28:42 +0000 UTCWhere is the link to the video you touted? You said you would put the link somewhere around here,
Boyce Rensberger
2022-09-16 21:25:39 +0000 UTCThank you Rex for another Furniture Forensics. It amazes me how something that is over 100 years old and still usable just gets tossed aside. Even a piece that was inexpensive in its day, if it has survived this long, deserves a second life for someone. Have a good weekend sir.
Matt Evans-Koch
2022-09-16 21:15:24 +0000 UTCNo complaints from Canada :-)
John Morrison
2022-09-16 20:48:40 +0000 UTCConsider it a "happy little accident"! 😉
Dallas Hanson
2022-09-16 20:41:08 +0000 UTCI realize that I just posted this on Friday instead of Saturday. After years, Patreon just changed the creator interface and it's way too easy to just hit "publish" now. I'll get it one of these days!
Rex Krueger
2022-09-16 20:39:42 +0000 UTC
