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   VAM | Jul 15, 2011 07:46pm | #1

   the CB factor

   It's because Christian Becksvoort likes Shaker.

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   Nollie | Jul 16, 2011 02:21am | #2

   I have Darrel's book on techniques of G&G and can not wait to buy his next book on techniques. Darrel is also not shy to give good information on how to do  some of the techniques on G&G

   Christian is also used often in Shaker and dovetail articles. I am actually tired of reading about  Shaker furniture  and dovetail techniques. It would be a good thing to have some G&G in Fine Woodworking - not every body is is interested in Shaker and federal.....

   I would like to know how to make those bolection inlays they used in the G&G style.

   The side chair i made was inspired by the Thorsen House chair. Some of the design elements in the chair, i made using the techniques in Darrel's book

   
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   foglemam | Jul 16, 2011 09:34am | #3

   There is an excellent discussion group for Greene and Greene furniture here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Greene-style-furniture/

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   Nollie | Jul 17, 2011 01:11am | #4

   I participate in that group, but also very quiet now.  The point is that i am getting the Fine Woodworking Magazine for about 7 years now , and i can not remember of any article on how to in Greene & Greene. Is G&G inferior to FW or what?? I did not even get a reply from the editor on my request to him.

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   SgianDubh | Jul 17, 2011 09:36am | #5

   Nollie, I seem to recall that Arts and Crafts furniture, with a heavy slanting towards Greene & Greene and other American's of that era were flavour of the decade in Fine Woodworking from about 1993 until about 2000. The other genre that was done rather to death during that period in the magazine was Shaker inspired pieces, almost always in American cherry. It rather amused me to see the number of 'Arts and Crafts' and 'Shaker' computer desks, television cabinets, entertainment centres and the like that appeared.

   I have only ever really read Fine Woodworking intermittently and never very closely, but I probably read it in a bit more detail during the 90s than at any other time, either before or after that period. It could therefore be that my impressions of the magazine content are incorrect, but it might be that if you acquire a fairly comprehensive library of editions from the 90s you'd get a fairly good range of Greene and Greene inspired pieces to mull over. Slainte.