Query 1:
From Rex:
Over the following two years, I will likely be visiting New England museums to have a look at interval furnishings items. I’d like to organize a instrument bag with instruments and a guidelines to assist me effectively observe, receive, and doc choose furnishings options, traits, and dimensions to organize a copy drawing for my use.

George Walker brilliantly mentioned his course of and instruments taken to acquire permission, observe, measure, doc, and put together copy drawings for an Ohio tall case clock in “Copying Museum Items” (FWW Subject 186, September/October 2006).

Expertise, such because the frequent use of cell telephones having cameras and flashlights, in addition to circumstances and museum practices change with time.

Will the panel focus on the instruments taken, finest practices, and procedures for inspecting, measuring, and documenting a furnishings piece whereas at a museum?

	Copying Museum Items Convey the correct instruments, enter with respect, and go dwelling with correct plans.
	Measuring a interval piece Many museums, collectors, and antiques sellers are welcoming to furnishings makers seeking to be taught from and even replicate a bit of furnishings, however be sure you use your time, and instruments properly

Query 2:

From Peter:
I took a chair class virtually precisely a yr in the past.  We made a contemporary Windsor chair.  I’m within the technique of constructing extra, utilizing the methods I discovered throughout that class.  I made the bending rig and adopted the templates precisely.  my armbows are popping out nicely, however I discover one factor…  the chair I made a yr in the past appears to have relaxed its bend.  The arms of the chair are about an inch wider than the recent bends I’ve made (and the identical after I lay the template over the unique chair.  They’re created from the identical template.  The chair remains to be lovely, and NOTHING appears mistaken or misplaced.  it’s only a wider bow now.  Is that this frequent?  Is it frequent for the armbow/crest rail of a Windsor chair that’s steam-bent to chill out over time?  If that’s the case, is there any technique to guess how a lot?   The wooden of the unique chair is kiln-dried ash.  I’ve made new bows from each kiln-dried ash and green-riven white oak.

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