A Table & Chairs made from HMS Victory

[motownmartin]

Did anybody see 'Flog It' this Afternoon.

They visited a furniture maker in Norfolk who was commissioned to make a Dining Room Suite with Oak salvaged from HMS Victory.

The Table top was made from pieces of wood set in resin, similar to Devonwoody's box, some of the wood still had some original paint and even some blood from the battles, or so the maker claims, the legs were curved to look like the underside of the ship, the cost of the Table was £9,500

The chairs were very elaborate, very difficult to describe in words, the Chairs were about 6 feet tall with ropes used on the backs to assimilate the rigging of the Ship, the cost of a Chair was about £6,000.

The whole suite cost about £48,000 more money than it took to build HMS Victory, all in all a fantastic piece of furniture.

Martin

 

[misterfish]

Yes. SWMBO and I were really impressed with the design and workmanship but don't think we could actually live with it. We also liked the legs turned to look like cannons as well as the wedge fixing mechanism.

Until I retired last year I used to work in the dockyard just a couple of hundred yards from HMS Victory. Just outside my office there was secure storage area with lots of very nice looking oak and other bits used for the never ending maintenance of the ship. I must admit that I had never thought about how the old ship's fabric was disposed of.

MisterFish

 

[Lord Nibbo]

I missed the programme

But it amuses me when they say it was made from oak from the Victory, it's a bit like saying my sweeping brush is 200 years old, it's had 10 new heads and only 5 new handles. :lol:

 

[lurker]

If you add up all the "bits of the victory" scattered thoughtout the country it makes you wonder exactly what is moored down in Portsmouth :shock:

 

[lurker]

LN,

You own Trigger's brush :shock:
Wow , I'm impressed :lol: :lol:

 

[woodbloke]

If you add up all the "bits of the victory" scattered thoughtout the country it makes you wonder exactly what is moored down in Portsmouth :shock:

The ship is pretty much a complete 'makeover' with nothing genuine apart from the decks, everything else has been replaced at some point....even the masts are steel tubes :shock:.....still impressive tho' :wink: - Rob

 

[lurker]

Rob,

That brass plate that says "Nelson fell here" is still a trip hazard after all these years :lol: :roll:

 

[Paul Chapman]

That brass plate that says "Nelson fell here" is still a trip hazard after all these years :lol: :roll:

And I thought he'd been shot :?

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[misterfish]

Yes - the 'Victory' oak is thin slices embedded in resin - I think the rest of the table and chairs are new material.

Anyway, you can have a look at the craftsman's website http://www.johnbarnard.co.uk/John%20Bar ... ctory.html and see what it is all about.

MisterFish

 

[Alf]

Anyway, you can have a look at the craftsman's website http://www.johnbarnard.co.uk/John%20Bar ... ctory.html and see what it is all about.

Got as far as "The Prologue" (cue Frankie Howerd) and read

avant-garde objet d'art futuristic eclectic individual

apparently written in cold blood? I mean first and foremost this character does know which nationality Nelson died fighting, right? #-o Secondly, if this is what it's all about then pass me the bucket and call me a Jacobite... :roll: :lol: Sorry, the furniture may be splendid, but this is just SO silly...

Cheers, Alf

 

[mahking51]

What I've always wanted to know is exactly how did they know that Nelson died at five past six? (1805).....
Martin

 

[Paul Chapman]

What I've always wanted to know is exactly how did they know that Nelson died at five past six? (1805).....
Martin

Perhaps someone looked at their watch......

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[motownmartin]

What I've always wanted to know is exactly how did they know that Nelson died at five past six? (1805).....
Martin

There was a sundial on board :lol:

Martin

 

[Paul Chapman]

And this might have been the watch he was wearing http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4313270.stm

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[misterfish]

Sorry, the furniture may be splendid, but this is just SO silly...

Cheers, Alf

Yes - isn't it just.

Mind you, the chap himself didn't seem so 'up his own ...' when he was on Flogit yesterday

Did you look at the 'arty' video of him sitting on one of the chairs on the beach - three minutes of 'higher education multimedia project' done by a third party. I suspect the whole website has been designed and put together by a web designer and programmer though I can't find any reference as such.

MisterFish

 

[keithhickson]

If you add up all the "bits of the victory" scattered thoughtout the country it makes you wonder exactly what is moored down in Portsmouth :shock:

When we went to Burnham Thorpe, Lord Nelson's birthplace, the publican at The Lord Nelson pup, which sells lots of nick nacks, bottle stoppers etc made from "Victory Oak" has the answer to this. Apparantly during a refit in Victorian/Edwardian times they took 8.5 tons of oak either from the ship or that had been set aside for her. Therefore having been destined for HMS Victory it could be classed as Victory Oak :wink: . I also saw the program and was suitably impressed by the maker's talent.

 

[Lord Nibbo]

Apparantly during a refit in Victorian/Edwardian times they took 8.5 tons of oak either from the ship or that had been set aside for her. Therefore having been destined for HMS Victory it could be classed as Victory Oak :wink: .

There must be some money in this idea :lol: I just stocked up on some wood to make a full size replica of the "Titanic" I've decided not to go ahead with the idea, does anyone want to buy some genuine "Titanic" decking :lol:

 

[keithhickson]

Only if I can have the bit Ms Winslet stood on....... :lol:

 

[Lord Nibbo]

Only if I can have the bit Ms Winslet stood on....... :lol:

No problems, I've got a DVD proving that she stood on it, does this make it worth more?

 

[woodbloke]

LN wrote:

some genuine "Titanic" decking

... got a genuine piece of the Mauretania's decking, if that's any use....don't think Katie W was on that one tho' - Rob