Forged hinges and hardware

[David R. Pennington]

Here is some interesting hand forged original hardware that exibits amazing craftsmanship. The cabinet is yellow poplar that has darkened with age (as poplar does). Upon close inspection you can still see evidence of the hand plane marks on the boards. Inspiration.
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[Curt Lyles]

David   Very nice work ,makes you wont to fire up the forge dont it. Curt

[Tim Crosby]

 Great hardware and cabinet, one of those is now on the to do list. Could you post an inside shot?  Thanks for posting.

  Tim C.

[Robert Wolfe]

Thanks for posting. Curt is right!

[David R. Pennington]

Tim I don't have any shots of interior. The cabinet isn't mine, it is part of the furniture in a cabin I stayed in while doing blacksmith demos (forge welding gun barrel) at local museum. Perhaps I can get more pics next time I am down there.

[David R. Pennington]

Some other details to note;
The molding around the top is not nailed on, those are wooden pins (probably heart pine).
The boards, while exibiting the marks of the plane also show tell tale marks from the saw that cut them. There apears to be not much if any radius to the marks which might indicate they were sawn out with a pit saw or water powered gravity feed "up and down" saw mill?. The fact that the marks don't run at right angles to the boards indicates they weren't sawn with band saw. This was designed as a utilitarian piece and no great pains taken with finish of wood but yet amazing graftsmanship on the iron ware.

[art riser]

Hershel House cabinet.

[jrb]

There's another Hershel House cabinet on Art's Contemporary Makers site. It's got Beautifully done pintle type hinges.

[Kermit]

The angle of the saw marks pretty much elimates having been cut on a watermill sash saw type machine. They operated vertically. It's easy to get this texture by resawing by hand with a frame saw. I love replicating old "common" woodworking, but I prefer to not leave evidence of the saw on finished faces. On the back or other out of sight surfaces is fine, but not on the face of a door! Some folks like this. To each his own.

[David R. Pennington]

Kermit, I saw an illustration once of a water power, up and down saw mill where the log was set into the saw at an angle so that gravity fed the log into the saw. This kind of mill would show angled saw marks I would suppose. I have never tried pit sawing but I suppose it would be difficult for the top man to pull up perfectly vertically, just like sawing with a hand saw, I would imagine the saw would angle into the cut?

[KNeilson]

Beautiful, love the stepped teardrop on the finials...  very inspirational 

[Kermit]

Kermit, I saw an illustration once of a water power, up and down saw mill where the log was set into the saw at an angle so that gravity fed the log into the saw. This kind of mill would show angled saw marks I would suppose. I have never tried pit sawing but I suppose it would be difficult for the top man to pull up perfectly vertically, just like sawing with a hand saw, I would imagine the saw would angle into the cut?

Sure could be, David, but I've never seen one. All of them that I've seen operate, N America and Europe, were dead perpendicular. I think angled saw scratchin's are most likely pit sawn or hand resawn. If that case was made by Herschel, my bet is with hand resawn, but who knows what he has rigged up.

[art riser]

The wood used came from an old structure.