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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2454534, member: 56859&quot;]Lovely!!&nbsp; Mid-century modern... my favorite era for furnishings.&nbsp; That bench is very inviting and serene.&nbsp; Its construction looks impeccable!</p><p><br /></p><p>In your previous picture-- the plank destined to become a sideboard, is that cedar?&nbsp; Juniper?</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have a Danish modern sofa and chairs c. 1963 (my parents bought it around the time I was born) and I have a Saarinen table and eight of the armless Tulip chairs, the large oval table.&nbsp; It&#039;s great not only for dinner parties but for arts and crafts, and poker <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In your picture above, in addition to lusting for that bench, I want your anvil!</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t done any fine woodworking and joinery such as the type you do, but I&#039;ve made some furnishing from time to time.&nbsp; Here&#039;s the first item I made (bamboo plywood):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]513340[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And soon after, this sofa which turned out pretty amazing if I do say so myself <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I had no idea how to construct such a thing but I read books, talked to people, and then just did it.&nbsp; The woodworking wasn&#039;t too hard since it didn&#039;t involve precision joinery but the upholstering was crazy!&nbsp; I really didn&#039;t know how to do that but it turned out okay.&nbsp; It took an entire bolt of Ultrasuede HP to cover the beast.&nbsp; In these pictures the sofa is in a model unit at a highrise loft in downtown Austin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]513346[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]513347[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I no longer have the bed or the sofa nor have I made any furniture or cabinets lately.&nbsp; 9-10 years ago I gutted my then-new old condo and built all the cabinetry from scratch.&nbsp; My neighbors weren&#039;t very happy about the prolonged construction noise, and for the first year my only &quot;furnishings&quot; were a 10 foot panel saw and a twin bed <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin, with an anvil <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_6b1b5658f14b448986f8b0c96f6fd96b.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_625,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_6b1b5658f14b448986f8b0c96f6fd96b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Roman Republic</b></p><p><b>moneyer T. Carisius, 46 BCE</b></p><p>AR Denarius, 18 mm, 3.62 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp;&nbsp; head of Juno Moneta right; MONETA behind</p><p>Rev:&nbsp;&nbsp; implements for coining money: anvil die with garlanded punch die above; tongs and hammer on either side; T CARISIVS above; all within laurel wreath</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Crawford 464/2; CRI 70; Sydenham 982a; Carisia 1a</p><p>ex Andrew McCabe</p><p>ex Baldwins 1998[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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