very impressive!
very impressive!
That's beautiful.
Inspiring - such a beautiful and well crafted camera!
genuine shellac - dissolved, or as dry flakes - does have a light straw to orange colour. I think the “transparent” means translucent rather than colourless!
Lots of “grey finish” teak garden furniture gets thrown out every Spring around here - the original finish is just a few millimeters under the surface. I think most of the original sliding boxes were made of fruit hard wood - mostly walnut.
Most French Chambres à tiroir seemed to have been made in oak, some in walnut - the British sliding boxes in mahogany or cherry. I've seen only one continental camera that was probably made from teak; although generally the type of wood in finished state is not easy to determine.
Since the aim was to build something out of waste wood, it had to be teak this time since that was only available; its a nice wood to work with and quite durable. Mahogany is very hard to find here. Next one could be made in oak if I'll find some.
The main problem is that there are more “new production” sliding box cameras around than there are originals! So, the range of woods may represent quite a few of cameras added since the mid-1800’s. I would have added Elm to your list - but I have never seen Teak in a period item.
White oak is full of all sorts of anomalies, red oak is best for finer sections and joinery.
Your craftsmanship is in advance of what was used in the original production of these.
Very nice woodworking here. And doing it from recycled wood as well is an extra challenge.
Teak was used but more for "tropical" camera's from what I remember visiting the Ernemann museum.
Expert in non-working solutions.
Last edited by Ron (Netherlands); 9-May-2022 at 11:35.
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