Adam,
Since you've resurfaced here on the SAPFM forum, I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask about something you said on WoodCentral, back on August 5. It didn't seem that WoodCentral was the place to pursue this.
In a discussion about drawer construction details in connection with some 18th century furniture in the Philadelphia Museum, you stated:
"I think the sapfm does a disservice by assembling 'like minded' individuals to discuss 'practical' period furniture making. An organization like that needs to listen to the museum professionals and see the change coming so they can direct their membership accordingly."
This really puzzled me, as it has been my observation that a fairly high percentage of SAPFM members attend seminars at which museum curators and conservators regularly make presentations. And this is nothing recent. I first attended a seminar held at Old Salem NC, in the late 1970's, at which John Bivins and Wallace Gusler, among others, gave presentations concerning various aspects of period furniture, it manufacture, and the history of the trade. That seminar was well attended, and it is my observation that such seminars continue to enjoy enthusiastic participants. Many of whom, I suspect, are, or could be, members of SAPFM.
Additionally, I've been quite impressed by the knowledge, about construction details, etc. of specific pieces or types of 18th century furniture, shared on this forum. Knowledge which often clearly has been derived by a close study of period examples.
In any event, I would be quite interested in knowing just how you feel SAPFM, as an organization, is doing a disservice to its members?
Don McConnell
Eureka Springs, AR
Since you've resurfaced here on the SAPFM forum, I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask about something you said on WoodCentral, back on August 5. It didn't seem that WoodCentral was the place to pursue this.
In a discussion about drawer construction details in connection with some 18th century furniture in the Philadelphia Museum, you stated:
"I think the sapfm does a disservice by assembling 'like minded' individuals to discuss 'practical' period furniture making. An organization like that needs to listen to the museum professionals and see the change coming so they can direct their membership accordingly."
This really puzzled me, as it has been my observation that a fairly high percentage of SAPFM members attend seminars at which museum curators and conservators regularly make presentations. And this is nothing recent. I first attended a seminar held at Old Salem NC, in the late 1970's, at which John Bivins and Wallace Gusler, among others, gave presentations concerning various aspects of period furniture, it manufacture, and the history of the trade. That seminar was well attended, and it is my observation that such seminars continue to enjoy enthusiastic participants. Many of whom, I suspect, are, or could be, members of SAPFM.
Additionally, I've been quite impressed by the knowledge, about construction details, etc. of specific pieces or types of 18th century furniture, shared on this forum. Knowledge which often clearly has been derived by a close study of period examples.
In any event, I would be quite interested in knowing just how you feel SAPFM, as an organization, is doing a disservice to its members?
Don McConnell
Eureka Springs, AR