Not a Nicholas Dattner piece,but some recycled timber into furniture.
Had these bits of Hoop Pine laying around the shed for decades,time for a good clean up this year,and threw/sold heaps of rubbish away.
But had these big boards from old post office,and made some side for a nice chest of draws.
Its 60 cm deep,and 65 cm wide,and quite tall.Very solid,and the deep draws can store my heavy sand bag rests for shooting,the thinner draws on top can store lots of little things.
The top is solid and some work on smaller jobs can be carried out.All timber came out of my old sheds,been there for years.I lashed out on handles they cost $9 each,the most expensive part.(see images of finished item,and in construction)
Just finished putting handles on today.Nothing super fancy,but solid and robust and good enough for shed office or observatory.
Many years ago I got into woodworking in big way but after 7 years went cold turkey after realising how much time was going into it. These days happy to buy the odd piece, knowing very well what goes into making them. Modern tools are a blessing, too.
Yes,Scott,the ND pieces are great,good to see someone knew what I was referring to. I am looking at building a ND style table in PNG rosewood 2.4 m long by 1.1 m wide,always like his refectory style tables,as if they had Henry the VIII in mind when he made them.
Yes,Leon the chest is very solid,will make some other pieces in this style,got a few more old extra wide hoop pine boards in shed,may as well make something for me out of them,than thinking,one day....... one day,we all run out of days!
Ah yes I remember ND used to have a display and shop in Bridge Rd, Glebe. ND used to have a glorious sideboard in redgum and silver ash that I adored but at over $10k I refrained. There's a company called Wildwood which made a few copies at less than half the price, and some of the other pieces they have were clearly inspired by ND ones. Pretty sure the owner of Wildwood knows Dattner, by the way.
WW also do recycled timber furniture, we have a couple of their pieces and I love them as they're not too "perfect", for example a coffee table made from old fence palings, which I use to display orchids when they're blooming.
