Beautiful craftsmanship

[Nick]

Back before routers, joiners e.t.c when craftsmen used only hand tools

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Seems to be a bit of a re-occuring theme of hiding stuff though. Be a bugger if you forgot which secret compartment you hid your snuff box in!

[colburge]

Bloody hell, imagine the man hours that went into that!

Col

[Kim]

Awesome stuff.

What a great thinker the builder must have been. I can imagine him laying awake at night like a kid on Xmas eve going over and over the detail in his head to come up with a 'better' way so he can meet the challenges of the next day...No where near at that level, but I do that with more complex stuff also. It's 'that' excitement, the excitement of discovering a solution and then the anticipation of getting out there and applying it that keeps me addicted to the shed.

Thanks for posting Nick.

Cheers

Kim

[Nick]

Awesome stuff.

What a great thinker the builder must have been. I can imagine him laying awake at night like a kid on Xmas eve going over and over the detail in his head to come up with a 'better' way so he can meet the challenges of the next day...No where near at that level, but I do that with more complex stuff also. It's 'that' excitement, the excitement of discovering a solution and then the anticipation of getting out there and applying it that keeps me addicted to the shed.

Thanks for posting Nick.

Cheers

Kim

The trouble I have with problem solving when I should be sleeping Kim, is that even though I finally go to sleep with a smile on my face because I've come up with the perfect solution. When I wake just a few hours later and recollect what I'd come up with, the first thought in my head is "What....a load....of....Shit! What was I thinking??!!" and vow never to problem solve when I should be sleeping again, until I do the next time! My nightime solutions almost never quite live up to the scrutiny of the cold light of day, it doesn't stop me loosing sleep the next time though

[charangohabsburg]

Amazing. Thanks for posting this.

I couldn't help but doing a quick search on the Internet about who was building this. I turns out that this piece came out of the "kitchen" of David Roentgen (1743-1807), son of Abraham Roentgen (1711-1793), the latter seeming to have started this "family business". It was David Roentgen who managed to take this business to a further level, working together with clock makers (for not only the built in clocks but also the hidden mechanisms) and other fine artisans and designers. No romantic "hidden-in-the-shed-production" by an individual artisan but rather a splendid engineering and production effort in early industrialization! Furniture engineering!

I found a short, rather good article about David Roentgen, but it is in German. If you like, here you can read its google-translation which certainly does not yield the ultimate elaborate literature, but at least may serve to provide some interesting data about David Roentgen's life and work. I imagine that there must be more detailed articles on the Roentgens available in English (not thinking of Wikipedia), but I have not searched for them.