hey fred, when are you going to start your hardware of the day post to educate all us novices on the wonders of repousse, chasing, hammering and dapping...?

i really just wanted to get a topic to get rid of the spam that has been here the last couple days...

Great collage Stonecat - but it would be even better if you added some labels! Speaking of which, what is the update on the database? I have been buying some catalogs and checking some out at my universities fine arts library (great resource if you can access it - they also have every issue of the Craftsman bound) but I keep thinking it would be so much better to see an already compiled database! Especially given your great collection of photos...

good one stonecat,it would make a great poster.

i posted this collage as my object of the day on another forum. hope stonecat doesnt get too angry...he is a member there as well, so im sure he will see it.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artsandcraftsstyleenthusiasts/

if you are not a member you should be.

Great topic! I have had the pleasure of examining some of these examples of hardware and they vary extensively on technique in manufacture. Some are castings other handwrought. I just restored hardware for a L&JG Stickley sideboard and was suprized to discover that the pull handles were forged iron that had been copper plated and then darkened.

Most of the pull handles tended to be cast in brass. The escucheons were often hammered copper or brass. I suspect this is due to the durability and strength of iron and brass over copper.

Many of the metalworking books of the day showed how to forge the handles, escutcheons, and hinges, yet one seldom ever sees examples of this work.

Roycroft began by making copper hinges for some of there first pieces of furniture and discovered that the hinges distorted from use. Decorative copper straps were often added to steel hinges to give the illusion that they were strap hinges.

Fred

i just put the collage in powerpoint and enlarged to 16x20 and printed from a plotter.

amazing quality except for the center darkstrap hinge piece.

i think i will frame it...

LOL, and guess what the 'centre dark strap hinge' is on....its a Shop of the Crafters piece!! We just can't stay away from SoC!

I just whipped it together yesterday from a saved collection of pics, (as a quick response to Don's first message), most from eBay of course, so the quality is dependent on the source (the SoC wasn't eBay, probably another auction site). I had to resize several of the individual pics to make them all mesh around the same relative scale and did it in Excel, and I could have made it even bigger but just aimed for something appropriate for the forum. All the big names are in there, Gus, LJG, Limbert, Lifetime, SoC, plus mid tier and generic. I suppose I could rejig it or make something different as computer wallpaper, squared off properly. The other collage to make would be joinery details - I've got these pics saved as well.

..oh yah, I'm chargin royalties Don

i did it over, cropped one copy of the image to just the SOC dark image, then copied that over the original and reprinted. looks great.

i think i might do the same with bungalow images, some whole houses, some just details.

i think you may have started a trend...

in theory we could start making entire full size posters

sound like you have a plotter at work, but easy enough to go to Kinkos or similar, as well

check this out...

don, you just keep impressing me.

hey, stonecat did all the work, i just printed it and put it in a frame i had.

Nice job