Stickley Era, the Arts & Crafts Movement

[Wabash]

Stonecat, is this anything worthy of note? It was given to me about 30 yrs ago. No label, stands 25 in. high. The base has been reworked due to warping and the finish skinned over with laquer. The top is from an old oak toilet seat, I have the original top but can't do much with it, warped and split. The column is solid quartersawn with mitred corners and tapers 1/2 in. bottom to top.
And again with the lighting, it is not as shiney as it looks, tough to take good pics!

[Stonecat]

Solid sections and a tapered mitre would be fairly tricky to do when the simple alternative is no taper. Good pedestals seem to be hard to find; usually you find butt jointed boxes as the construction, with glue edges showing and with a little warping there's often a gap or seam separation somewhere. As a result this one would/should fetch an above average price.

Using an old toilet seat must be a B.C. thing, where people hug trees and revere anything to do with old growth Here in Ontario if we crap on something, we don't reuse it we throw it out!
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Stonecat

[Wabash]

[Stonecat]

When doing the clamp in the reverse direction warp thing, you can try over-correcting the warp because as the board dries and you release the clamps it might spring back a bit. You can do this by clamping both ends and putting a small shim of some sort in the middle or strategically at the fulcrum point of the warp, if that makes sense, like the pic in the Little Journeys thread. The piece of cardboard made both pieces over-correct by an 1/8 of an inch or so, and they flattened out nicely when the clamps came off.

(nice looking shop by the way)


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Stonecat

[Wabash]