{"id":1131,"date":"2008-03-10T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2009-01-24T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:05:05","slug":"seventeenth-century-room-panelling-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Seventeenth century room panelling installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not my room (pity) but I thought this was a wonderful challenge to set a woodworker. It seems that a person in the US bought a whole room&#8217;s worth of Jacobean seventeenth century English oak wood paneling at auction and has commissioned a woodworker to get it ready for installation. Trouble is, it&#8217;s been stored for years in separate components and needs to be re-assembled and adapted to fit a completely different room &#8211; for the second time. <\/p>\n<p>William Randolph Hearst the eccentric publisher apparently bought the paneling from an old country estate in the UK and shipped it to the USA. When the Hearsts auctioned off a pile of stuff in 1998, the paneling was among the goods sold. <\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/lumberjocks.com\/jocks\/woodwkr\/blog\/3715\"><strong>Woodwkr blog<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; the author of which has been given the challenge (!) of fitting this paneling in a new setting. His blog describes the process of sorting, digitising, designing and where necessary making new components to match, and getting the whole lot ready for installation. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lumberjocks.com\/jocks\/woodwkr\/blog\/3790\"><strong>latest post<\/strong><\/a> has a great story of how he came up with an idea to get the panels so sit flat for installation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not my room (pity) but I thought this was a wonderful challenge to set a woodworker. It seems that a person in the US bought a whole room&#8217;s worth of Jacobean seventeenth century English oak wood paneling at auction and has commissioned a woodworker to get it ready for installation. Trouble is, it&#8217;s been stored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-woodwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}