February 20Feb 20 Popular Post How many here have used Greene and Greene techniques when building furniture, boxes, etc.?I had never done G&G before so I decided to start experimenting. Keep in mind here that these are being done roughly so I can decide if I'm going to go further. Usually box finger joints employ a G&G flavor but I wanted to see how the technique would look with hand cut dovetails. I bought a 5/16" square hole punch from Lee Valley and started into it after cutting the dovetails. All this was done with pine.The punch is very sharp but I found it tricky to judge how hard to tap with the hammer in order to get crisp cuts. It wasn't too bad but I'm learning.I read several articles with a few good suggestions which I tried and it was helpful.Making the plugs wasn't bad at all and I have developed a few ways to make them.On these I made darted reliefs. It just a flavor. Not sure I like them.No finish has been applied yet. Maybe I'll shellac it all.Here's what's called a "cloud lift"Thanks for looking!Cheers! MrRick
February 20Feb 20 I really like the G & G style. I had my Librarian get all their books for me after which I bought a one book, which turned out to be the one I didn't think I wanted.I still haven't done anything with it
February 20Feb 20 Author I'm going to make some G&G furniture soon. Love it. Here's a box I made and posted with some G&G plugs.
February 23Feb 23 You're off to a good start Rick.IIRC @Danl has done several bedroom pieces G&G style in QS white oak. His work is top notch. Hopefully he'll drop by this thread and offer up thoughts.
February 23Feb 23 One of the shops I used to work for did a lot of G&G inspired pieces. I liked it ok, but I found the details impractically fussy for a production environment. That led to some inconsistency in the final piece, depending on who built it and how they approached the work. That kind of problem was above my pay grade though!I do really like the G&G way of putting splines around breadboard ends - that one is a nice practical way of diverting attention away from the fact that the top can change it's width with changing humidity while the cross grain end stays the same length.
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