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A Looking Glass - Jonathan S - 01-29-2016
I haven't seen too many project posts in hand tools lately, so I thought I'd share my latest. An 18th century style looking glass. This is a reproduction of an original I found online, thought to have been made in Boston around 1790-1800.
Its African mahogany, because I didn't have any Honduran that was wide enough. The crests and ears are veneer cut on the bandsaw laid up on a poplar core. All else was hand tool work. The moulding was quite challenging as its flat. I used a beading plane and several hollows and rounds.
Mirrors are tough to photograph!
In researching looking glasses, I saw that period makers often pasted their labels onto the back, so ginned one up for myself! Even used an 18th century font.
Here is the original.
Thanks for looking.
Jonathan
Re: A Looking Glass - Gregory of Sherwood Forest - 01-29-2016
Ooooh! Beautiful. I like how you placed the grain on a bias, making it more interesting. Neat addition of the label on the back, but why no date?
Re: A Looking Glass - Sawdustd - 01-29-2016
Nice Jonathan. That's a LOT of hand work.
Re: A Looking Glass - Jonathan S - 01-29-2016
Thanks. Good question, I had not even thought of adding a date. I'll remedy that with a pencil.
Jonathan
Re: A Looking Glass - Rob Young - 01-29-2016
Sweet. Adding the date in pencil would be a good and probably realistic touch anyway. The labels would be made up undated so they could be used for a long time.
Re: A Looking Glass - dow - 01-29-2016
Very nice. I like the label as well, and you ufed the fancy f's.
Re: A Looking Glass - JIMB49 - 01-29-2016
YOU HAVE IMPRESSED A OLD MAN
Re: A Looking Glass - MattP - 01-29-2016
dow said:
Very nice. I like the label as well, and you ufed the fancy f's.
Good thing the label is on the back or it'd steal the show; it had me cracking up. Nicely done.