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3:22 am
January 18, 2011
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Table I did awhile back to seat eight people. Forged from flat bar, the base members were from 2'' x 4'' and the U's were forged from 1 1/2'' x 4''....
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3:51 am
March 18, 2010
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That's mighty sweet Bruce! I love clean simple lines.
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
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4:24 am
January 18, 2011
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Grant;11166 wrote: That's mighty sweet Bruce! I love clean simple lines.
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
Thanks Grant, If I had my druthers I'd be like you and not ''do'' scrolls at all.....Except in a piece like David Hyde's tree........
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5:40 am
March 21, 2011
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Looks like some pretty hefty rivets holding the feet on. 
8:09 am
March 26, 2010
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Hey Bruce
I'm a scroll hater too. Well at least the traditional C or S ones used for repetitative unimaginative "fill". Stretch them out into a more flowing "Noveau" curve and I'm more interested. Ogees, the line of beauty, Hogarth and all that
I really like your table Bruce, intruiging design, uncluttered yet detailed
1:03 pm
August 30, 2010
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Bruce, in the six base elements, did you use the 3-1 ratio to work out the length, before forging down the centre to leave the original section at the end of each piece? Or did you just forge one and adjusted accordingly? Nice table. How thick was the glass?
2:01 pm
January 18, 2011
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David Edgar;12187 wrote: Bruce, in the six base elements, did you use the 3-1 ratio to work out the length, before forging down the centre to leave the original section at the end of each piece? Or did you just forge one and adjusted accordingly? Nice table. How thick was the glass?
When I drew the base elements in the scale drawing I just move back and made marks where the forging began and ended. I believe the the 3 to one thing just happened....I bet it's close....This may sound silly but I think most artisans can arrive at the mean or real close without precise layout.....All the elements are welded in the middle and forged using a porter bar, trying to forge stock that big and arriving at precise beginnings and endings seemed pointless to me.....That glass is 1" and I broke a fearful sweat every time I looked at it before it was in place. It was dicey even with four people handling it...easily the most stressful part of the project...All 4 hundred pounds of it...
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6:17 pm
September 14, 2011
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Love the simple design of the whole, would hate to be the one moving it though.
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11:09 pm
December 12, 2010
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The table is beautiful and understated in it's simple but elegant lines. How did you finish it?
9:47 am
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June 17, 2010
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You make it look way too easy. The client should be really grateful. This is what I consider to be "good design".
9:58 am
August 30, 2010
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Good Grief, over here an INCH thick toughened would be a king's ransom in that size, no wonder you sweated over it. Excuse my ignorance What is a porter bar? Is it just a bar welded on to replace tongs?
4:01 pm
January 18, 2011
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Welded on handle is a porter bar, sounds like an English term to me.......I was in no way responsible for that glass, the client could afford it and helped set it in place, The creepy thing was, I know a guy who was handling a big piece of 1/2'' glass once and one little tap turned it into huge shards and nearly took off his fingers on one hand...gulp...
Simple finish, wire wheel and clear coat....the design is a morf of an Edgar Brandt piece.....
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
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5:41 am
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August 1, 2010
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Is the glass somehow secured to the table, or does it just "rest" (400# of it) on the base?
It looks to me like the sort of table that will be appealing for a long time, as in several hundred years...
1:15 pm
May 13, 2010
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I like yours better than Brandt's. It has cleaner lines.
2:33 pm
January 18, 2011
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I used 8 little polysomething 3/4 x maybe a 1/32 thick clear pads each secured with a drop of silicone to rest the glass on...
Brandt's lines a always are always clean, he just liked to gussy things up a tad. Excepting his guns, the one in the pic used compressed air to lob mortar shells.
I made a similar one to shoot tennis balls through an old drive shaft 500 ft + using OXY and.........
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
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