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Anyone ever see Colin Schleeh in his shop? *LINK*

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Anyone ever see Colin Schleeh in his shop? *LINK*

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Anyone ever see Colin Schleeh in his shop? *LINK*

Dick Coers

Ever see his methods of work on his vessels? I first saw them at SOFA. Incredible shapes, scale, finish,etc. A lot of them look to be made from 3mm baltic birch. I wonder if he lays up the veneer on forms and then use a reverse form to work the joint. Maybe a sanded face on those acute angle seams? The two halves are joined with impeccable precision. Looks like folded paper, and from one piece, they are done so well. Almost knife edge at the seam. Some get so big that he pours a colored resin in the bottom for balance. The tamo ash veneer vessel I saw at SOFA years ago was just remarkably beautiful!


http://www.schleehdesign.com/vessels.php?lng=e

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#2

Really cool work 


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#3

lovely work

GaryG in MD

Thanks for the link.

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Re: Anyone ever see Colin Schleeh in his shop?

Dave Long

Had the pleasure to visit his shop twice and see his work on display at both SOFA show in Chicago and decorative arts show in Toronto. Photos don't do the work justice.

He and staff are extremely innovative when it comes to form.

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How do they make those incredibly tight seams?

Dick Coers

Did you see their methods of work? I don't want to steal anything proprietary, so maybe just how the heck do the make those acute miters where the 2 halves meet. I understand if the methods can't be shared.

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Re: How do they make those incredibly tight seams?

Dave Long

Place I was in was a huge industrial complex/showroom. The scale of a lot of Colin's work is much bigger than in photos. Lot of big machinery around. Lot of veneer work over fiberboard frame and the vaccum-pressed take out all the air and make a tight seam.

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Keith Tompkins

Re: How do they make those incredibly tight seams?

Keith Tompkins

Dick, My guess is saw cuts, then run through an extremely sharp jointer. Small pieces can be done with a hand plane, finely tuned.

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Some of his work is 5' tall

Dick Coers

and it's all very thin. Lots of flex in some of those because they are around 1/8" thick laminations or less. Some of those seams are like an included angle of 10 degrees. So a really long miter on 1/8" lamination. Then the miter has to match up over that 5'! I think there is a lot of CNC work going on there. Male molds to vacuum press the veneers, and female molds to cradle the halves and then sent through a wide belt sander. A saw blade just wouldn't make as clean as cut as the final product shows. The female molds could be in rigid foam since all they have to do is cradle the lamination. That's the way I would do it anyway! But since I don't know how to create surfaces in Rhino software, and don't have a CNC, I won't be doing anything like that soon. It's the beauty of his finishes, color choices, flowing curves, and some of the patterns of colors he makes, just blows me away!

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Re: Some of his work is 5' tall

Dave Long

Sounds like you need to take a road trip to Montreal, Dick. Send Colin an e-mail. he loves talking with other woodies