Desk made from 55k+ pieces

ND13
ND13 Posts: 7,601
edited March 2009 in The Clubhouse
While on my son Seth's field trip to the New Castle, Henry County, Indiana Historical Society, I took these pics that some dude made over 35 yrs out of over 55000 separate pieces of hundreds of different types of wood.
"SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,079
    edited March 2009
    Can it be used as an audio rack?
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited March 2009
    That's what happens when you don't have a wife...
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited March 2009
    Or are blowing all your money swapping out audio equipment... :D
    Jake
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited March 2009
    I have more, but the file sizes are too large. I kept switching between VGA and 8MP.

    Needless to say, other than the obsession, his work is/was impeccable. It is hard to fathom the dedication, much less the quality of the work.

    He was a veteran and some of the work is done with metal from some of his medals. IIRC, it was General Omar Bundy, but I'm not sure.

    http://www.history.navy.mil/DANFS/g3/general_omar_bundy.htm
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited March 2009
    People say we're crazy with cables and magic rocks.
    -Ignorance is strength -
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2009
    Sorry, but I think its ugly....
    Testing
    Testing
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited March 2009
    Whether you care for the style or not, you gotta admit that it took some serious skill to make.

    Wonder what Jesse would charge to refinish that?
    Wristwatch--->Crisco
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited March 2009
    I wonder how well it would burn.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • izafar
    izafar Posts: 819
    edited March 2009
    I am wondering how much glue was used.
    -izafar

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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2009
    The guy definitely didn't have kids. In my house, my kids would've been drawn to it like a moth to a flame ... itching to leave a cup ring or wanting to see if the finish will hold crayon.
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  • AudioGenics
    AudioGenics Posts: 2,567
    edited March 2009
    Is a stockpile for when the energy crisis is so bad there is plenty of fuel available.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2009
    Well it's a ORB some believe some don't Google it.

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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited March 2009
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    Well it's a ORB some believe some don't Google it.
    ????:confused:
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2009
    Looking at that first picture post it has a light circle on the right side of the desk.

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    CS400i Center
    RT800i's Rears
    Sub Paradigm Servo 15

    Electronics
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 pre-amp
    Parasound Halo A23
    Pioneer 84TXSi AVR
    Pioneer 79Avi DVD
    Sony CX400 CD changer
    Panasonic 42-PX60U Plasma
    WMC Win7 32bit HD DVR


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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,394
    edited March 2009
    I be damn. That is an orb in the picture, actually two of them. Did not even notice the first time I looked, great attention! Some believe it is a supernatural phenomena, spirits. Hmm..

    Halen
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,394
    edited March 2009
    I think its a nice desk, however, I will be staying away from it!! hahahaha

    Halen
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2009
    God Halen if you liked that orb I got a lot of those pictures ;)


    I think any old place has some Orb's :eek:

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    WMC Win7 32bit HD DVR


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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited March 2009
    I was talking about the Google part of your post.

    Though the curator did say that the old house was hainted.:eek:
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2009
    Google this "orb in photo" ;)

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    CS400i Center
    RT800i's Rears
    Sub Paradigm Servo 15

    Electronics
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 pre-amp
    Parasound Halo A23
    Pioneer 84TXSi AVR
    Pioneer 79Avi DVD
    Sony CX400 CD changer
    Panasonic 42-PX60U Plasma
    WMC Win7 32bit HD DVR


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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited March 2009
    Maybe, just MAYBE, that was a dirty lens? Just sayin' here....
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2009
    obieone wrote: »
    Maybe, just MAYBE, that was a dirty lens? Just sayin' here....

    You maybe right, I don't know for sure. Some say its dust on the lens some say its spirits who knows for sure. I feel knowing they can be in pictures that aren't seen by a naked eye are souls lost in between states. Souls which where killed over died on their own.

    Speakers
    Carver Amazing Fronts
    CS400i Center
    RT800i's Rears
    Sub Paradigm Servo 15

    Electronics
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 pre-amp
    Parasound Halo A23
    Pioneer 84TXSi AVR
    Pioneer 79Avi DVD
    Sony CX400 CD changer
    Panasonic 42-PX60U Plasma
    WMC Win7 32bit HD DVR


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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,394
    edited March 2009
    I am actually more interested in encountering spirits again. To think about it, maybe the orbs made the desk? no?

    Halen
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited March 2009
    No dirty lens. Just some supernatural **** going on.:D:cool:
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited March 2009
    ND13 wrote: »
    I have more, but the file sizes are too large. I kept switching between VGA and 8MP.

    Needless to say, other than the obsession, his work is/was impeccable. It is hard to fathom the dedication, much less the quality of the work.

    He was a veteran and some of the work is done with metal from some of his medals. IIRC, it was General Omar Bundy, but I'm not sure.

    http://www.history.navy.mil/DANFS/g3/general_omar_bundy.htm

    That piece is what veneering is all about. That's hundreds, or if you say so, thousands of tiny pieces of veneer of dozens of different kinds of wood cut into place.
    It's called marquetry, as the woodworkers here already know, and that's some serious OCD-dementia veneering.

    That's what it takes to be a woodworking god. Which I am most assuredly, not.
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,663
    edited March 2009
    That's cool. I think it's neat.
    engtaz

    I love how music can brighten up a bad day.
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