Artists easel plans

[Chuck]

After reading all the coments re the guy that wants free plans, I was
almost afraid to send this message. I am not looking for a freebie.

I want to build an artist's easel for my daughter who is a full time
serious artist. It will be made of oak, handle very large paintings,(up
to 5 or 6 feet high). The kind of easel I am looking at runs from $600
to $1000. I am a fairly skilled woodworker but know next to nothing
about the best features of an easel.I have searched the internet and the
"Best Company's" Santa Fe model easel is similar to what I had in mind.
I would be willing to pay a reasonable amount for a detailed plan of
this or a similar type of easel.

As far as the discussion about if you can't design it yourself you
shouldn't even try to build it; I can build a fine piece of furniture
and I know the styles I like. However since I am not an artist or even a
hobbiest painter, I know nothing about what is needed to do large
paintings.

Thanks,

Chuck.

[C.E. "Chuck" Ring]

Chuck,

There are two large easel plans here:

http://209.122.88.33/index.htm Use "Article Search" with "easel" as the
keyword.

Sorry I couldn't find one which you have to pay for.

Chuck

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http://209.122.88.33/index.htm

[Conan The Librarian]

In article <36FFA8...@rideau.net>, Chuck <war...@rideau.net>
writes:

> After reading all the coments re the guy that wants free plans, I was
> almost afraid to send this message. I am not looking for a freebie.
>
> I want to build an artist's easel for my daughter who is a full time
> serious artist. It will be made of oak, handle very large paintings,(up
> to 5 or 6 feet high). The kind of easel I am looking at runs from $600
> to $1000. I am a fairly skilled woodworker but know next to nothing
> about the best features of an easel.I have searched the internet and the
> "Best Company's" Santa Fe model easel is similar to what I had in mind.
> I would be willing to pay a reasonable amount for a detailed plan of
> this or a similar type of easel.
>
> As far as the discussion about if you can't design it yourself you
> shouldn't even try to build it; I can build a fine piece of furniture
> and I know the styles I like. However since I am not an artist or even a
> hobbiest painter, I know nothing about what is needed to do large
> paintings.

I made an easel out of oak for my oldest daughter
that can be seen at http://www.swt.edu/~cv01/easel.gif.

I didn't have a plan, but instead cobbled it together
from looking at various easels and trying to take elements
of different designs that looked useful. Here are some of
my thoughts on building it:

The main important elements that I could see are an
adjustable canvas-holder and a tray for holding brushes,
etc. On mine, the tray also supports the canvas, and
was attached by means of a carriage bolt that sat in a
slightly oversized groove and attached at the back with
a washer and wingnut.

The groove ran almost the full length of the vertical
support, so the tray could be moved to the desired height
and secured with the nut.

I also added an adjustable top support so the canvas
can be secured between it and the tray. One thing I
would have done differently is to extend the vertical
support above the top crosspiece and continue the groove
almost to the topmost height of the easel. (That would
have allowed her to hold even taller canvases.)

The easel is slightly under 6' tall, and supported
by a single leg in the back attached to the horizontal
support by a hinge. At the base of the leg I added a
crosspiece about 8" long for stability. Brass chain
is attached to the each side/back of the easel and goes
around the leg (attached by a single screw in the
center) to keep it from opening out to far.

All the frame elements are simply attached using
dowels.

I hope some of this was a help. If you have any
other questions, feel free to fire away.

Chuck Vance
Woodworking projects at: http://www.swt.edu/~cv01/woodworking.html

[Gene Jenkins]

Chuck wrote:
>
> After reading all the coments re the guy that wants free plans, I was
> almost afraid to send this message. I am not looking for a freebie.
>
> I want to build an artist's easel for my daughter who is a full time
> serious artist. It will be made of oak, handle very large paintings,(up
> to 5 or 6 feet high). The kind of easel I am looking at runs from $600
> to $1000. I am a fairly skilled woodworker but know next to nothing
> about the best features of an easel.I have searched the internet and the
> "Best Company's" Santa Fe model easel is similar to what I had in mind.
> I would be willing to pay a reasonable amount for a detailed plan of
> this or a similar type of easel.
>
> As far as the discussion about if you can't design it yourself you
> shouldn't even try to build it; I can build a fine piece of furniture
> and I know the styles I like. However since I am not an artist or even a
> hobbiest painter, I know nothing about what is needed to do large
> paintings.
>

> Thanks,
>
> Chuck.

Sorry they don't cost anything, but they may give you some ideas:

http://www.am-wood.com/july97/easel.html

Don't know how to make it a link, but you can copy and paste it into
your browser.

Gene
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[Jack-of-all-trades]

war...@rideau.net (Chuck) wrote:
After reading all the coments re the guy that wants free plans, I was
almost afraid to send this message. I am not looking for a freebie.

<snip>

As far as the discussion about if you can't design it yourself you

shouldn't even try to build it; <snip>

It's not about wanting free plans, no problem with that. It's about
people who don't want to SEARCH for plans, just wanted them handed to
them. You already said you searched. No prob. Here are a couple
(free, I don't much bother with the pay plans unless it is something
very special I personally am interested in). And not a thing in the
world wrong with not being able to design something yourself. Just my
personal feelings are that more people could do it if they just tried
it. Mostly I just use someone else's plans for ideas, and just make up
what I want from there. These are all the easel plans I have for now.
If they don't work for you I can't help. Good luck. Oh, you might want
to make a prototype out of pine or other cheap wood before going with
the good stuff.
EASEL http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/people/grosser/easel/ EASEL
http://www.am-wood.com/july97/easel.html

Very funny Scotty!
Now beam up my underwear.