2 minute BBC video

[Rob]

This is the London house of a Kenyan poet left to the National Trust after his death and now a museum.  No detail on the fretwork but impressive nonetheless.

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Rob

Edited April 5, 2019 by Rob

[John B]

Quite magnificent Rob.
A bit over the top for me but I sure can appreciate the craftsmanship.
Perception is a funny thing. I called the missus into look at the clip and her first words were "Imagine all the dusting" 

[Scrappile]

@John B, I guess because I live in a dusty part of our country, my first thought was the same as you wife's!   I bet he did that all with a hand saw also,,,, .  Pretty amazing.  When did he have time to write poems?  May scrolling made him a poet, I do a lot of thinking while I scroll, coarse none of my thinking produces anything....

[Bill WIlson]

Cut & Paste from Wikipedia;

"For 20 years,^[5] he decorated it internally with Moorish-influenced fretwork^[1] which he cut by hand from discarded pine doors and wooden boxes."

I vaguely recall reading about this several years ago.  Somebody may have posted about it on one of the forums, but I can't remember.

[Rockytime]

Done in 20 years? Seems unbelievable. Hard to imagine something so ornate. London, a place I often wished I could visit. Thank you for the post.

[OCtoolguy]

If he did all that with a hand scroll saw, he must never have slept. Or eaten. Or anything else.