? on Greene and Greene elements

Hey Mart
To my sense it would be a over kill. The guy to ask is Darrell Peart. He wrote a book on greene and greene.

http://lumberjocks.com/Darrell

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I’d like to see your ideas. can you hand draw them and post the picture?

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Tried scanning the drawing but ended up having to take a picture of it to get photo bucket to recognize it. Anyway this is what I have in mind. I ran out of room at the top of the page but intend to wrap the top with trim that has the same proud finger joints as the base. I will use ebony plugs on each joint. sorry for the crudeness of the drawing. I whipped it out in a hurry.

Mart

I can’t seem to get the big picture to post. I never had this problem before. Seems like it only wants to post as thumbnail. When I have posted in the past I just clicked on direct link for the picture and paste it in the post after clicking on insert photo. Am I doing something wrong or am I just a technotard?

Mart

I figured out the problem. The size at photo bucket was set to tiny from an avatar I posted on another forum. Here is a picture of what I had in mind for the book case. Still not posting as big as I would like.

Mart

looks good to me. maybe step the cloudlifts back a fraction from the front of the shelves to give you a shadow line. The finger joint base is a winner also. and don,t forget to post the final result to inspire the rest of us who also need to find “design opportunities’!

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Hello Mart,

I have studied the Greene & Greene style quite a bit recently. I think the base works out beautifully, and the idea of the cloud lifting is definitely right on. However, it seems a bit too much in my opinion. I would try to find a balance between the bottom and the top. In other words, you may want to use cloud lifting for the bottom and top shelf, but in between keep it straight.

Jim mentioned Darrell Peart, and if you check out his website and loot at the “Greene and Greene Chest” he designed (http://www.furnituremaker.com/chest_of_drawers.htm), you can see how he used the cloud lifting on the top and bottom of the piece, but kept it straight in between in order to not exaggerate this unique design element.

This is just my humble opinion, it may not be yours, but since you asked for opinions…

Well it’s to late to turn back now. I weighed the opinions of all who responded and opted to go with the cloud lift on all the shelf facings. The bookcase is more of an experiment than anything since it started as a way to use up some pre-finished maple plywood I had made an error on. I also needed to give myself another bookcase for the family room so my woodworking magazines and books wouldn’t have to live in piles next to my chair. It is all glued up and waiting to be taken out of the clamps. I wanted to do something more than just a plain bookcase with a plain face frame. I faced the bookcase with some Alaskan birch I had cut and kiln dried recently as it finishes very close to maple. I will be using walnut plugs rather than ebony. I have some ebony but not enough to make all the plugs. Now it is on to the finger joints. This should be interesting. I hope to post some pics in a couple days.

Mart

I know I’m a bit late on this one, but I think a shallow cloud lift on each shelf front would be just fine. Other G&G elements that I incorporate often are ebonized vinegar & steel wool) oak, pillowed plugs, 1/4” square in any intersection and splines on corners. Make sure you make templates so you can route all of the liftsexactly the same (one half flipped over guarantees symmetry). Good luck! Make sure to post as you go.

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Can I ask… What is a “cloud lift”?

BTW: Dr Tebi, in order to get the link, you posted, to work, it needs a space before & after it… like
( http://www.furnituremaker.com/chest_of_drawers.htm )
Just thought you’d like to know…

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Joe,

If you look at the chest of drawers featured in that link, the stepped portion of the bottom rail and the portion of the face frame between the top two drawers and the second drawer down illustrates a cloud lift. Not all cloud lifts are arched such as those, many are straight with a raised portion on either the top or the bottom of the rail. It is a fairly common element in Greene and Greene design.

Mart

Mart, thank you…

So, in your face frame, you’re going to have those lil offsets (cloud lifts) on each side of the shelves?

Does that mean the upper portion of the rail will be a little higher than the shelf so there will be somewhere for the Cloud Lift to go?

Looking forward to seeing what you do & how you did it.

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I did cloud lifts on this tables shelves, & a reverse cloud lift on the apron.

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Joe,

On my project the cloud lift is only on the underside of the shelf face frame. The top edge is flat to mate up with the surface of the shelf. I will post pics when I get a little more time. I am on my week on schedule right now so don’t have much more than time to sleep, eat and work with a few minutes thrown in to check my favorite forums. I work a 7 days on/7 days off schedule with 12 hour shifts. It is a great schedule but leaves little time during the work week for much other than work.

Dick and Barbs project is a good example of cloud lifts. Nice job folks, I really like it.

Mart