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20/06/2011 7:38 pm  

Adam
Impressive work. I recall you posting in an art thread a while back.
Do you have a website?


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artsnot
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20/06/2011 7:41 pm  

Insane
That is insane. I love it


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adamfowler
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20/06/2011 7:45 pm  

Thanks,
adamfowler dot...
Thanks,
adamfowler dot com
I havn't updated in a while, I keep meaning to but.


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20/06/2011 9:58 pm  

Adam's work
is astounding. The drawings are beautiful in themselves. Turning them into three-dimensional, layered graphics, by the most laborious method imaginable, baffles me. A person with excess energy -- a meth addict ? The result must closely resemble a work made with fiber, with subtle differences, of course. One wonders what led to the decision to pursue this, as form and craft. Modern-day scrimshaw ? Tatting (lace-making)? A demonstration of dedication ?
Adam, tell all !
Thanks for the comments and questions, tk. This design is about as far as I go in terms of expressive form. The folding aspect is a somewhat unnecessary fillip -- If I had to deliver a large table like this, I'd want to make the job a little easier, and crating and shipping cost would be lower, I would think.
The server is in fact subtly curved -- not enough, I guess. And the material contrast was an afterthought, based in part on what I had at hand. The frame parts are pine, a soft material that was chosen solely to make the shaping of parts quicker and easier.
A surface which is "landscaped," and visually permeable, are defining characteristics of the tables I have designed over the last twenty years -- hundreds of them.
What I learned from this model was that point of view exaggerates the size of parts -- in this case, certainly. I removed about 10% of the height of the foot before assembly -- and regret it. When viewed from the end, the "whale-tail" foot seems more than adequate, yet it shrinks alarmingly when the table is viewed from above. The photos above were chosen to minimize this effect.
The form is indeed a cross between an ironing board and something nautical, perhaps. There is a retro quality to it. I'll probably be revisiting this form, to see where else it can take me.


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21/09/2011 1:40 am  

Adam Fowler
I got to see some of Adam's work in person at the Houston Fine Art Fair over the weekend and it was very impressive. Someone bought a piece while I was there. Good Job Adam.


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21/09/2011 6:55 am  

thanks mvalen
I hope you enjoyed the fair!


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HPau
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05/11/2011 12:51 pm  

present for friends
...or what can be done with cheapass pine seeing as ply is so crap now. A fun day in the workshop, much enjoyable planing, there are a few ways I can connect it all from the underside. One big triangle cut into 3, cross dowels, partial glue and screw, threaded rod etc. Just have to decide on the most elegant and consistent. Its more than a mockup, less than a finished product right now.
Ignore the pine and imagine it in black or walnut with brass bits, yummy.


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05/11/2011 9:13 pm  

Nice !
Nothing wrong with pine, as long as it's properly joined. I recall some nifty softwood case pieces from Scandinavia c. the 'fifties-'sixties. The edges are softened more than you might do with hardwood . . .
I like those tapered panels ! There is more that can be done with the planer than many realize.


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05/11/2011 9:48 pm  

Heath,
You are so talented! This one is exceptionally sweet.


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HPau
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05/11/2011 11:17 pm  

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Thanks, there was a competition here a few years ago called 'redesigning pine' which I wish would be run again, not for me but because it was a good idea. I was in the big hardware store and was looking for something to rip up some skirting boards from, saw the boards and then when I got home thought that they were so knot free and flat that I asked that 'what do you want to be' question, of the boards...anyway I think the strengths and weaknesses of softwood boards were designed around ok.
Time to go finish it...and it was all hand planed, not run through the thicknesser, my knives are really dull.


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06/11/2011 1:00 am  

Good Lord --
a glutton for punishment. Well done !


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06/11/2011 1:27 am  

A poor man's Yanagi?
Great work, Heath.


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06/11/2011 2:06 am  

Planes
Putting those Veritas planes through the paces Heath?
Nice job, I really like the tapered boards too, reminds me
of Danish proportions. Show us a shot of the underside.
Brent


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HPau
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06/11/2011 3:12 am  

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Muchos Gracias, it was just an off the cuff thing but yes
the Veritas planes rock (have 10 now *blushes*)
and I suppose Yanagis stool has always been in
the back of my mind...different material, different
approach though and yes RIDICULOUSLY cheap to
make compared to my old curved ply products, that
used to be fun but now it seems such a shame to
cut all that wood up only to glue it back together
again at such high cost, at my production volumes anyway.
Pardon the rough big picture rotated the wrong way,
I've exagerated all the tapers, its quite stable.
Photobucket is being panful...this is one way to
connect it all but I think I'll sleep on it,
there are almost too many ways. Suggestions welcome 🙂
I just realised the weakness, imagine that aluminium bit
as a steel triangle, like one of the things that holds
billiard balls
together.


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06/11/2011 5:13 am  

Yup.
Does anyone make a triangular tube -- an extrusion ? Or a boomerang-shaped piece of ply (?) could penetrate the legs and support the seat ?


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