Monday, Can't stop it.

9/22/08, 10:04 AM #1

Gary Smyth
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Monday, Can't stop it.

Pretty easy if you know--harder if you need a reference.

Trivia for this day refers to furniture feet. If a furniture foot curves outward in a scroll as you might visualize at the end of the neck of a violin it is called a French scroll. However, if a furniture foot reverses 180 degrees and tucks underneath (curves inward in a scroll shape) what is it called?

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9/22/08, 12:26 PM #2

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Isn't the opposite of French, German?

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9/22/08, 2:25 PM #3

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Only if you're speaking it.

Trivia, pas du tout.

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9/22/08, 6:20 PM #4

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Not sure, but I think I have a reference with the answer at home. Will check later today.

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I have been woodworking for about 25 years now, and would consider myself an enthusiastic amateur. My claim to fame (or infamy) has always been fixing stuff. I spent time in the Air Force in the 60's then went to work as an electronic technician for civil service. I finally got my EE, and being fed up with the civil service nonsense, took a job with Ford Motor Company until I went with the split to Visteon last year. I got interested in music and started playing in a bluegrass band. I wanted a new guitar, and that kind of led me into woodworking. I bought some books, a few tools, and built a guitar. Luckily, I didn't know any better than to try that as a first ever project. I still play it when I get a chance, so it must not be too bad if it can live for over 20 years. After a stint in Mexico for my job, I moved into a new house and built a small shop. Since then I have been collecting tools and skills, probably more of the former than the latter ;-). Finding this site has done more for my skills and enjoyment than anything else. I have learned a lot and really enjoy the friendships that I have made here. I have been married to LOML (Lori) for 32 years now and have 6 kids. When they are all gone, I want to get a 1 bedroom house (so there is not room for them to move back in) and at least a 6 car heated/air conditioned garage for a shop. (Dream on...)

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9/22/08, 7:06 PM #5

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Antique books feature console tables and torcheres with this foot. F. Lewis Hinkley shows examples in his Directories of Antique Furniture. Unfortunately it does not define the style of foot. For that (two weeks later) I found a written reference in �The Collector�s Book of English Antiques� by Geoffery Wills and Edward T. Joy. Hinkley�s books were published in 1953 and 1971. The date of publication in the other is 1964.

Incidentally, the term is also used in association with lathe work.

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9/22/08, 10:38 PM #6

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What I thought I had was something else. I was thinking of Flemish foot, but that has two scrolls, one in and the other out.

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I have been woodworking for about 25 years now, and would consider myself an enthusiastic amateur. My claim to fame (or infamy) has always been fixing stuff. I spent time in the Air Force in the 60's then went to work as an electronic technician for civil service. I finally got my EE, and being fed up with the civil service nonsense, took a job with Ford Motor Company until I went with the split to Visteon last year. I got interested in music and started playing in a bluegrass band. I wanted a new guitar, and that kind of led me into woodworking. I bought some books, a few tools, and built a guitar. Luckily, I didn't know any better than to try that as a first ever project. I still play it when I get a chance, so it must not be too bad if it can live for over 20 years. After a stint in Mexico for my job, I moved into a new house and built a small shop. Since then I have been collecting tools and skills, probably more of the former than the latter ;-). Finding this site has done more for my skills and enjoyment than anything else. I have learned a lot and really enjoy the friendships that I have made here. I have been married to LOML (Lori) for 32 years now and have 6 kids. When they are all gone, I want to get a 1 bedroom house (so there is not room for them to move back in) and at least a 6 car heated/air conditioned garage for a shop. (Dream on...)

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9/23/08, 2:23 AM #7

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Braganza: A fancy name for an Inscrolled foot, also known as a Knurled foot, and a Spanish foot.

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9/23/08, 11:37 AM #8

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Galen stepped up (foot reference)to win a gold star for his forehead. Wear it proudly. My answer is knurled foot same word as knurling on metal punches, or gunstocks. It also could refer to a knurled hand as in a anatomical abnormality. A Spanish foot to my way of thinking is a ribbed foot sort of spayed at the base, but also with a possible mini scroll. I don't know for sure so no award there. A "Braganza" I do not know. It sounds wonderful though. It sounds as if it is North Jersey, Tony Soprano, twisted nose, plastic covered excess. In as much as the knurled foot seems most often found on Rococo, some Georgian and Louis XIV with all the fancy scrolling and gilding a Braganza style (from Portugal?) could work. There is a Braganza house in India, and a english letter font that looks like Sanscrit writing from India but beyond that I'm not familiar with the term. Congrat's Galen.

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