| Project by Alster | posted 120 days ago | 608 views | 3 times favorited | 4 comments |  |
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This is the first project I’ve completed in the last year and a half, and it felt good to be back in the shop again. This bookstand is pictured in “Paint, Pattern, and People: The Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725-1850,” which is a marvelous book. It inspired Charles Bender at Acanthus Workshop to build a reproduction, and it’s his plans that I’ve largely followed.
Constructed of air-dried walnut, and cut and joined by hand. This was my first time at a lathe, and the feet show it. (sigh) Finish is Minwax Antique Oil and Johnson’s Paste Wax.
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Sergio
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#1 posted 120 days ago
I am not quite sure about the utility of this but it is a great piece of work, nice job!
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a1Jim
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#2 posted 120 days ago
Very interesting piece great build .
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Joe Watson
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#3 posted 120 days ago
nice work I really enjoyed building one of these. Id like to do another. And for a first time at the lathe you did fine.
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#4 posted 120 days ago
It makes a nice conversation piece. Well done.
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