A coat tree I made  

That looks great - I...
That looks great - I actually like the visable screw heads so I say stay!

So
So do I!
Very nice..wish I had a wide enough hallway for it 🙂

Wow
That piece is a real beauty! Do you plan to sell it, or keep it for yourself?
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Thanks for the nice words! I will test changes on this one and keep it for myself, beyond that I've no idea at all, marketing is something I've no head for :). Thanks for the link though.
I am having a big furniture making spurt and will hopefully put up a chaise longue + more soon.

I like the base having a small footprint 'as is'. The top four arms seem a bit
tall? and perhaps could themselves be a bit shorter and less flair? shorten
them and pull them in to the same as the base volume or even a bit more?
Visualizing it in use, the first coat or two hanging from the top arms would
hug the tree form a bit and the shorter top arms would be slightly exposed
for a hat or other coat and not be hidden by the other coats 'volume'.
Does that make any sense? (I wish my track-pad had a sketch function)
I don't mind the hardware showing, though a obvious option would be
button dowel plugs. Is the wood ash?
I like the natural color but an ebony stain, 'trans-tint' used for violins and
musical instruments, would be nice.
...and finally i see signs of spring! I'm working on a chaise lounge as well.
(thousands exist, but when i see one i like, it is often a thousand $$)

Speaking of coat/hat racks
In the movie "Pulp FIction," there's a scene in the apartment of Butch, the Bruce WIllis character. After shooting John Travolta (don't get me started), WIllis walks out past a hat rack or "hall tree" that appears to be made of flat, leaf-like, upturned petals -- material might be plastic or bent wood slats. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Strangely appealing, just fro one quick glimpse. Italian?

Fantastic
Looks fantastic!
The one thing I'm concerned about this piece, is stability. If I were to hang my heavy winter wool trench coat, is it going to topple?

Looks so good
it'd be a shame to cover it up with coats.

Looks great - I'd say cover...
Looks great - I'd say cover the screwheads though to prserve the continuity

I like it, but...
1. my eye is disturbed by the short members that stick out a bit too much below the waist, depending on the angle from which it is viewed.
2. it seems like an awful lot of pieces for a coat rack.
I am not a slave to less is more, but design advances tend to have less of everything more elegantly arranged, rather than more of everything elegantly arranged.
Your design is certainly lean in terms of each element and that is the winning part of it.
Also, I'm always a sucker for a narrow waist, even in a coat rack, apparently. Dare I name it the "Tight-Laced Coat Rack?"
Regardless, the total number of elements and the protruding short elements below the waist might be reevaluated.

Thumbs up
I thought of the sculpture b of the bang as soon as i saw it, I think it looks great!

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Thanks for the comments! So much appreciatted.
Rockland picked the reason for having secondary flared branches straight off! (btw the legs and big branches have an identical flare, it is symetrical) I wanted a lot of air ciculating around the coats and things and no overlap of clothes, today when I put the dowell pins on the tops it will be more functional and will be able to have coat hangers hung from it ( I know I'll end up hanging damp t shirts on it)
I'm prettty sure I will use a different knockdown fitting so the screw heads are concealed, unless I can get smaller brass ones and a darker better timber, It is ash right now and is frankly fugly.
I have hung a single bed quilt from one of the top spikes and its still stable, I was quite suprised. I may keep the small footprint, the short lowest spikes will be replaced with ones at avery sharp angle to keep wet umbrellas even further away from coats. I will also try a 3 legged arrangement at DCs suggestion, it will still have 9 hooks overall.
Thanks again!

Good work.
I like it. Haven't figured out how it assembles, but if the customer applies the visible screws I don't have a problem with looking at them -- at all.
Handsome piece. Can't wait for the chaises longues (long chairs) from both of you !
SDR

Thanks SDR, I'm looking...
Thanks SDR, I'm looking forward to the chaise longue too!
I'm getting very irritated, not much done today (saw needed to be re-wired, allen key mislaid oh about 50-times) other than reducing the height of the waist connection area by 5 cm which is a big improvement and doesn't detract from the rigidity at all. It is now almost perfectly symetrical after I removed + re-cut the lower spikes. I put little dowell nubbins in all the top branches which work quite well with coat hangers + jacket tabs, I hung a doule bed wool blanket off one coat hanger and it's still stable.
I did spend about 5 hours hunting down and playing with cap nuts, acorn nuts, barell nuts, cam locks, wingnuts, allen screws and threaded rod (metric, bsa and whitworth threads) and have finally found a way of making it fairly user friendly. Luckily the angle is large enough so that an allen key can be spun 360 degrees when assembling it, so the finish won't be scratched, I've been very very lucky with that and the tube diametre.
The black and white photo has me seriously considering making a 4 legged/4 branched version with dowell or brass rod at right angles on the top hooks to work as supplementary hooks rather than arraying 16 bits of wood around tube, I think that would look good black, will mock that up tomorrow.
Currently it is *wince* too sculptural, the idea of having umbrella storage below isn't working out too well.
That will be last big post I make about it lest this turn into Heaths blog!