Sat, Aug 30, 2003, 10:24pm (EDT+4) john_20_28 snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (jm) who is honest enough to admit: Let me say upfront. I don't know what makes a piece of furniture valuable
Judging from by most of what I've seen listed for big bucks, it usually means finding a sucker, with money.
or an "heirloom."
This is usually misused. Here is what the dictionary says: heirloom n 1: (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance 2: something that has been in a family for generations
But I bought this months edition of Woodsmith and in it is a plan for a chest of drawers with the casing made of plywood. There were other items with plywood also. Doesn't "real" fancy furniture that becomes and anitque or and heirloom have a solid wood base and case?
As far as plywood, here is a partial quote: Bent Ply is the first book devoted to plywood in modern design. It consists of two parts: the first, an illustrated history of plywood (tracing its origins to ancient Egypt, circa 2900 BC); Quoted from here:
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I don't figure you get much more antiquey then old Egyptian furniture, it's usually pretty fancy too. Way I figure it, if the people that made the stuff that are antiques today had plyowod, they would have used it, same as electricity and power tools, instead of hand tools.
Doesn't plywood make it "cheap.
Not judging by what some people charge. And, price some antique Egyptian furniture.
" Sorry if this offends some of you.
Maybe some of the too tight people, but who cares about them? Not me, I like plywood. They made bombers and PT boats from it in WWII, and you can make anything from a yacht to fine furniture with it. Great stuff.
I really just am curious if solid wood could be used as a substitute for the plywood an give it real lasting value.
It would have snob appeal anyway, but yes, some times solid wood could be sutstituted, other times plywood would be more appropriate. Depends.
But I am sure that would make it cost much more to build. How much I don't know.
If it's cost that stops you, then use more inexpensive materials, or make smaller projects. Find something that sells, make enough money to buy more materials, more expensive materials, and go from there. Anyway, it's a Hell of a lot cheaper to make somehing you have never made, and make some mistakes, out of poplar, or some other relatively inexpensive wood, then to try the same thing out of expensive wood, and then screw it up.
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