When one becomes acquainted with the production of this furniture all at first seems very simple and straightforward. However, in the process there are many nuances that require a lot of experience and highly qualified professionals. The entire production process can be divided into three main stages.
The first stage - the choice of material. A common material in the manufacture of classic English furniture is oak. A number of properties make this material a leader among its competitors. Oak does not rot and has a high density, poorly lit, well to the artificial aging of, has a fairly thick trunk, which is easy to carry solid parts.However, there are some drawbacks due to its high density of the oak is very heavy, it is difficult to handle, so the tools for machining shall be strong and steadfast.
Raw British buy at the stage of growth in Normandy. It is difficult to imagine how rich oak north coast of France, but in England uniquely rich oak, this tree is found at almost every step. Perhaps the British, making this choice, protect your nature, but maybe it banal English practicality. Cut down the material before it gets to England, also sawn in this form it arrives in England, and already there remains in the open air 5-10 years for the purpose of drying and removal of residual stresses in the wood.
Further material is sorted at this stage are selected boards and boards of thickness, length and width. Also, once determined, and their purpose: what will be the foot of the bars, and what - top.
Before the actual sawing, the wood stays a few days in the drying chamber.
Plant cutting. There are two circular machine for longitudinal and transverse cutting of wood canvas.
Everything is quite simple: the fabric is cut lengthwise.
Then cut crosswise into equal parts.
Next, cut the rough edges to give perfectly flat board and re-mark it.
Next to them are entirely civilian in the form of blanks that need to drive to the warehouse.
This shop is running both 5-6 people, each doing its part. Card worker.
Patterns.
There's a lot of machines, as well as dust, half an hour of shooting, it has covered all my hair. Strong buzzing hood, suction chips and sawdust from each machine in the special bags on the street. Of them, then get pellets for heating, but the other is engaged in the business office.
By the way, about machines. All of them are a firm, simple resolution of the device at his, without any digital bells and whistles, sometimes with only two buttons, "start-stop", so speed control.
This adjusts the thickness of the board.
Grinder.
I suspect that some of them are traded for the second ten.
In any case, the emphasis on hand work. Half of the group - the youth of the rural type. I think without much education, as colleges, producing professional woodworkers is not here. The whole experience takes over from the older generation. Hence the conclusion that fools and slackers do not work here. For all the time (which is more than three weeks) I have not seen, except for yourself, not a single employee, staggering in the yard with a cup of coffee and a cigarette in his mouth. Payment - hourly.
The following discussion focuses on how to collect, process and bring the furniture to its normal form.
The second stage can be characterized as the most interesting process, where the oak planks and boards find their final form.
This happens in the carpentry shop and paint shop. Here is a leisurely work, and the manufacturing process precisely adjusted and polished over the years, because there is a risk and haste may nullify the work of a dozen people, auknuvshis on someone's wallet. Lie down for 10 years, the oak is a valuable material enough to easily produce from it a marriage.
All items are made clear to the drawings, some have their own characteristics. Here, like the design idea to apply for the benefit of customers using a non-trivial solutions in the transformation of furniture and its dual use. I'll explain later.
Tools joiner-carpenter.
You may think that everything is done manually, but it's not too modern tools to save time and nerves.
In this profile the machine support leg next table.
The most interesting thing comes after all the parts ready for assembly. Prior to this, each of them is treated mechanically bevel and edge smoothing. This is a very handmade, everything should look so not ideal to create the effect of "run-in" time of the tree. First, outline the contour of the future "irregularities."
Then remove the coarse rasp of the bevel.
The remains sticking out in all directions so the fiber is cut in such a tool.
In the course is plane. They make the plane more than the concave rod in the center, as if to reinstall it at this point thousands of feet.
Experienced eye checked the quality of work performed.
The final stage - the creation of potholes and scratches. The operation is performed directly on the stone pointed the plane tree. At first glance, an easy job. In fact - the oak is not so easy to shocks. Traces must be deep and beautiful, to start playing after finishing varnish.
On unpainted tabletop so far seen only the structure of wood.
It does not stop at outsourcing. Figured cutting is performed in another town. This brought ready-made parts.
This table leg is carved from a single timber.
Presets are stored in the warehouse, on the floor above.
Ready to assemble parts lie in a numbered order.
When you build do not use nails and other metal items. Only the wooden studs, drilled at specific locations grooves and a special glue. Everything fit so tightly together that the joint can not even stick a needle and some stitches after grinding and not visible to the eye.
To design elements permanently stuck together and not deformed, keeping his trapeze,
they tighten clamps.Collected in this way the furniture, with an average weight of 50-100 kg guaranteed to last more than a dozen years. I think that 100 years exactly.
Decorative items like this one curb to the drawer, and put on the glue.
Here ends the second phase. In nothing unremarkable (more like a chemical laboratory) paint shop goes pristine white furniture, which is destined to come here quite a different color and type of the object interior.
The third and final stage, the polisher - a man-wizard - makes svezhatinku oak antique furniture in breathing, as if it came with a Tudor times.
Actually, there is taken stilistka total and partial manufacturing technology of the furniture. And so called because at the time of Henry VIII Tudor shestizhentsa in aristocratic homes of England are traditional massive carved beds and tables made of oak.
So begins this phase with the staining - a tool for primary processing of wood. In its application dramatically enhanced contrast. Expense of its heterogeneity, manifested pattern of wood fibers and wood becomes more beautiful.
To enhance the effect, the furniture covered with an additional special patina. It is applied to the edges and joints, creating an uneven faded furniture. Lacquered in two stages. First, raise the so-called "pile" - swollen as a result of staining, and washed pieces of wood. Then remove the layer shifovkoy and better gloss and water resistance, in several layers of multi-component varnish cover.
In varnishing coating strength I saw in person, accidentally hitting a couple of times on the tripod leg of the table. The characteristic amber color of the furniture makes shellac. This lacquer finish that is based on the resin, which is produced from emissions of varnish scale insects. Shellac is applied gently, soaking a small swab all the details. It turns out about this beauty.
Now for the chips. I have already said that this furniture is made with care. Many things are going, saving living space. For example, tea tables.
And this is a coffee table, which is a slight movement of his hands into a locker.
There is a chip type of hidden internal cavities, as in this secretaire. Pulled out a board by pressing a certain place special flat keys.
Or compartment for papers, disguised as a decorative panel. Removed when removing the small bolts from the inside.
All this can be seen immediately, showroom is located on the second floor.
Furniture is divided into collections and stylized historical era England. But there are those here, it is the current trend.
Of course, the reader there is a reasonable question: "How much?". Prices for small items such as bedside tables, start with a three-digit numbers in pounds. Allow the furniture to furnish such a house can not everyone. But it's worth it!
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