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   Huck | May 13, 2007 03:57am | #1

   Imagine how the guys felt who had to demo. those Greene and Greene houses that didn't survive!

   "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun."

   Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe

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   McDesign | May 13, 2007 04:10am | #2

   Yeah, they probably thought, "hadn't these guys ever heard of nails?"

   Forrest

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   basswood | May 13, 2007 06:30am | #3

   Those are some sweet details.

   Cutting those compound angle cuts on the closet rod supports with a hand saw would have taken some skill.

   I wonder if he made a special miter box/jig for that? Hmmm.

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   Sphere | May 13, 2007 05:38pm | #4

   Cutting those compound angle cuts on the closet rod supports with a hand saw would have taken some skill.

   Heck, no worse than a freehand dove tail, I know you could thump it out as easy as a straight cut.Parolee # 40835

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   Gene_Davis | May 13, 2007 05:49pm | #5

   And you only have to do it on one end.

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   basswood | May 13, 2007 08:23pm | #7

   Time for a confession...I've never hand cut a dovetail. I would like to build nice furniture someday. Most stuff I build is just lap jointed and maybe pocket hole screwed or dadoed.Funny when I saw that closet rod support photo, I first thought "cool," then thought, "Oh, might have to use hand tools."Drove past an Amish crew putting up a building last week. It would be interesting to work with those guys for a week or so.

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   Sphere | May 13, 2007 09:28pm | #9

   hehehe...my confession. I worked at a furniture type manufacturer in NC. Actually, I was a shop foreman. The place was called Tiger Mtn. Woodworks in Highlands NC.

   Anyway first week there, they asked me set up the still in the box dovetail jig for the router..a PC I think. I never saw one in real life..just on tv.

   I hemmed and hawed awhile and just forgot about it being there. A while later I had 2 drawers to get into a sofa table apron, I just clamped the sides in my vise and with a pullsaw, eyeballed the tails and then transferrd them to the pins, and chopped them out with a chisel..one drawer, about 20 mins at most.

   The owners, husband and wife team, about died. "You mean we spent all that on a jig and you just do THAT?"  LOL

   I never did set it up. But did start using a bevel gauge and finally dedicated DT markers.

   I saw Frank Klauz cut them free hand with a bowsaw, and he had a half twist in his blade...start out with the blade at normal address, and at the tail base waste area, push the saw the full stroke and the twisted part cut the cross grain at the base...now THAT was cool to see!

    

   ed:typos

   Parolee # 40835

   Edited 5/13/2007 2:30 pm ET by Sphere

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   ponytl | May 13, 2007 06:45pm | #6

   drill the hole first..... freehand any cut you wanted to the hole... each one would only fit the one it came from.... easy detail... and very little extra time spent.... 

    most would never notice the detail...which is no reason not to do it...

   thanks for share'n and adding to my.... detail database...

   p

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   basswood | May 13, 2007 08:25pm | #8

   Good point...each one could be cut with a unique shape, that would just add to the hand-crafted nature of that kind of custom work.