I have only seen pictures of that piece so I have no idea what kind of joinery was used to connect the three main pieces. Floating tenons of sufficient size would render that piece sturdy enough to support two people. The woods she used, bubinga, ebony, and maple are all strong, dense hardwoods, so it's probably a functional piece of furniture.
It's just that the sitting force translates downwards, and that slight angle looks like a weak point. Perhaps I'm wrong and the design is sturdier than a vertical support -- sort of the way an arch is strong than a Stonehenge upright -- in wood of course.
I had to Google "bubinga." If I was playing scrabble and you put that on the board I would have challenged it..and obviously been wrong. I bet you are a stone cold killer in word games.
If I can manage to take them perhaps I will post some pictures of a bench I made that is not dissimilar to that one in design.
Since Ms. Madsen's piece is made out of laminated slabs I suspect it is very strong, assuming she used a non-creep urea based glue to glue-up her pieces.
Wouldn't it be swell if we could go a day with some non-creep news?
Spins, I never play word games, heck, I don't play games at all. With games like Scrabble I get annoyed at the randomness of the letters one gets to work with. With all other games I hate to lose so I avoid playing them altogether.
I used to play chess, now that is a game I really liked. Maybe I will get a change to play it again someday.
chick, You are a master word player as is Sixty. If someone is good at wordplay, they could be good @ word games. I'm decent @ scrabble but my bride is a killer. Back in the 70's, I took a train from KC to NYC. I had a Scrabble game w/ me to pass the time. A nice, but neurotic man, afraid of flying, sat down and kicked my ass. The guy had never played. We weren't playing for money so he wasn't a hustler, he really had never played the game. He could have kicked my ass even worse if he knew how to get max points. The guy was in the clothing biz and took the train from St. Louis to NYC for shows a few times a year.
Sixty, I can see chess being your game. I am a ham n' egger. My sister and I would play as kids and we were evenly matched. When I started playing other kids I realized I was a bozo. I had a lot of Polack friends and they were almost all really good. Polacks can be socially stupid, but are really quite smart as a group.
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Doesn't look very sturdy.
Form over function, I guess?
I have only seen pictures of that piece so I have no idea what kind of joinery was used to connect the three main pieces. Floating tenons of sufficient size would render that piece sturdy enough to support two people. The woods she used, bubinga, ebony, and maple are all strong, dense hardwoods, so it's probably a functional piece of furniture.
It's just that the sitting force translates downwards, and that slight angle looks like a weak point. Perhaps I'm wrong and the design is sturdier than a vertical support -- sort of the way an arch is strong than a Stonehenge upright -- in wood of course.
Dammit Sixty, I'm a chemist not a physicist.
I had to Google "bubinga." If I was playing scrabble and you put that on the board I would have challenged it..and obviously been wrong. I bet you are a stone cold killer in word games.
If I can manage to take them perhaps I will post some pictures of a bench I made that is not dissimilar to that one in design.
Since Ms. Madsen's piece is made out of laminated slabs I suspect it is very strong, assuming she used a non-creep urea based glue to glue-up her pieces.
Wouldn't it be swell if we could go a day with some non-creep news?
Spins, I never play word games, heck, I don't play games at all. With games like Scrabble I get annoyed at the randomness of the letters one gets to work with. With all other games I hate to lose so I avoid playing them altogether.
I used to play chess, now that is a game I really liked. Maybe I will get a change to play it again someday.
Obama spoke in a resinous barrytone -- probably from smoking.
@Nick: Sixty likes wordplay. Ruth Anne was a master at it too.
The bench should be ok as long as Tom Cruise doesn't show up.
chick, You are a master word player as is Sixty. If someone is good at wordplay, they could be good @ word games. I'm decent @ scrabble but my bride is a killer. Back in the 70's, I took a train from KC to NYC. I had a Scrabble game w/ me to pass the time. A nice, but neurotic man, afraid of flying, sat down and kicked my ass. The guy had never played. We weren't playing for money so he wasn't a hustler, he really had never played the game. He could have kicked my ass even worse if he knew how to get max points. The guy was in the clothing biz and took the train from St. Louis to NYC for shows a few times a year.
Sixty, I can see chess being your game. I am a ham n' egger. My sister and I would play as kids and we were evenly matched. When I started playing other kids I realized I was a bozo. I had a lot of Polack friends and they were almost all really good. Polacks can be socially stupid, but are really quite smart as a group.
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