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	I've had a few of these	1 Relevance	9 years ago	Spanky	Identification
	... switched to the universal base. Like you, my first year production model is missing a washer between the bottom of the seat and the top of the base. There is a small gap there that makes the chair just a hair wobbly. I tried a nylon washer (3/4" inside diameter) from the hardware store but I couldn't find anything thin enough to allow me to still fit the retaining clip at the bottom.
	Dear Zephyr,	1 Relevance	9 years ago	cabepe	Identification
	Dear Zephyr, Thank you very much for your help. In fact they are in rosewood, a wood Portuguese like very much. In the sixties lots of nordic furniture was sold in Portugal but in fact we also have lots of copies "Portuguese made". Although this, I'm convinced that they are of nordic origin because there is a round label (about 1 ,5 cm diameter, that we can not seen the inscription because it is vanished), but Portuguese furniture makers in the sixties don't have the practice of labeling the furniture.
	Not Easy	1 Relevance	19 years ago	LuciferSum	General discussion
	... tables/benches/stools are one of a kind. A Barcelona chair, where an original can fetch thousands, is still a production piece. What Nakashima put into his work was intense focus and meditation not only on the piece he was making, but who he was making it for. Most of his one-off pieces were constructed for specific clientelle, and he would bring them into the studio, show them the pieces, let the wood talk to the different clients before he began constructing the piece. In the materiality of his work you can see a true expression of the mid-century stap ...
	green fatigue	1 Relevance	19 years ago	finch	General discussion
	green fatigue To be honest, I think a different approach is needed when promoting ideas on carbon footprints and sustainability, lest one come off sounding sanctimonious -- a problem I think a lot of environmentalists have when appealing to the hoi polloi. Personally, I feel I'm uniquely conscionable when it comes to matters of environmental/economical natures, yet even I find myself feeling bogged down at the sometimes preachy green hype on this forum and elsewhere, and I wonder if its the most effective way to get such a vital message across. One trap to a ...
	Good to see a lot of dead...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	... excellent argument for, yet who I often thought, through no fault of his own but for fame, played a caricature of himself his last several years. Surprised, too, not to see Gregory Peck on your list. The actors of the bygone era in cinema bring up a possibly interesting design question. While my reference to Grant in the Hitchcock movie (the damn diamond thief one I can't recall the title of) was a poor comparitive choice, as SDR correctly pointed out, it still strikes me, at least in a lot of the films I see from the 40s, 50s, and 60s, how aware I am of th ...
	I should have clarified that	1 Relevance	9 years ago	cdsilva	Repair
	I should have clarified that you do not want to try to rip a small diameter dowel on a table saw by itself, as tk has noted. For close cuts like that, it is best to securely tape the dowel to a larger piece of scrap wood (perhaps with a groove cut for better stability and precision) before running it through.
	That is generally called a	1 Relevance	9 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	Repair
	That is generally called a spanner head screw. It is a type of security screw. To find what you need you will need to figure out the length, thread type, head diameter, head height, distance between the spanner holes, metal type, etc. Or you might need to get a machinist with a metal lathe to turn you a new one. Sometimes old Danish hardware can be impossible to find.
	I think the dowels are 3/8"	1 Relevance	9 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	Repair
	I think the dowels are 3/8" diameter. And the flattened side probably has about 1/8" removed. It has been a while since I looked at the bottom of one of these Selig chairs.
	First...Pt 2	1 Relevance	19 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	... and characterization through gesture and dialogue and motion (a mastery I never achieved by the way), without the fulfillment of finishing it as a film. I loved writing the screenplay, even bad ones, but then hated the very thought of turning it over to someone else to make into a movie. Having thus simultaneously faced the reality of my limitations AND the reduction of writing to mere technical mastery, I licked my wounds for awhile and thought life was a bad joke played by sadistic gods. Then it occurred to me that a human being is entitled to feel good a ...
	Alright, old what's-your-name...Pt.3	1 Relevance	19 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	Alright, old what's-your-name...Pt.3 At the center of this example of our vase is the issue of the dialogue between designer and user. did the dialogue among ourselves constitute a dialogue with a user, model one, or fool us into thinking it did? did we know any more about the consumer and what he wants after the design process than before it? In some ways I think we did learn more about the consumer, but then I am concerned that we only listened to the part of the consumer that allowed us to make some thing more complex, something more technological. Despit ...
	In addition to dcwilson's	1 Relevance	19 years ago	koen	General discussion
	In addition to dcwilson's interesting contribution...and frequent abuse of my name... I think that the complex relationship between designer and consumer deserves a close look. Not at the relationship itself but at the means by which the dialogue or lack of dialogue is taking place. To a large extend the period preceeding the industrial revolution was characterized by a almost direct dialogue between artisan and client. Most artists like artisans would paint, sculpt, engrave and illustrate according to instructions given by there patrons. Sometimes these ins ...
	The dowels are long enough to	1 Relevance	9 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	Repair
	The dowels are long enough to fit loosely in the 4 slots under the seat frame. It is probably a 3/8" diameter dowel. And one side of the dowel is flattened a lot. This flat part goes up against the seat frame. Use a roll of Pirelli webbing. It goes around the dowel. And you cinch it tight. The flattened part of the dowel keeps the dowel from rolling in the slot and loosening the strap.
	That is the nicest tarp I've	1 Relevance	10 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	That is the nicest tarp I've ever seen. One of my favorite colors, too. Waffle - could it be that the through-holes were drilled after the first three had dowels in them already? That way the dowel that were already inserted would have the perfect fit at the ends. I just reglued a rather cheaply-made chair where the round tenons on the seat frame were like this because the rails were all on the same plane but the leg posts were pretty small in diameter.
	I used to pre-drill when	1 Relevance	10 years ago	Spanky	Repair
	I used to pre-drill when adding new L-nails but then one day I broke my last drill bit and tried hammering the nails in. It turned out to be just as quick. The nails from caning.com are the same diameter as most original staples (a fraction of a hair smaller than some). They don't bend if you hold them in place with needlenose pliers while hammering. Always turn the nail head so that it is over the widest part of the pliers' jaws. Tapping a starting divot with an awl and hammer makes it even easier. Of course if there's any worry about splitting, by a ...
	Hi Don...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	koen	General discussion
	... to some extend it kept me away from some obvious solutions. It was not until Gerrit posted the collection that Frédéric Ruyant designed that I realized that it is probably not such an important thing. Old vases often have this very unpleasant decomposed flower smell but as long as you can rinse it generously and as long as there are not nasty rims that hold the water back when you empty the rinsing water I do not see a problem. I also have to admit that I did not expect the reactions I have been reading, so to me there are still quite a number of problems t ...