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Retro? Modern? Jacks-thingies..What IS IT??? |
RenTiki
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From: Orange, Burnt O.C., Crispy Calif.
|  Posted: 2004-07-08 6:40 pm Permalink
Aloha my friends!
These items are puzzling. I am not a expert in modern furniture. Er, perhaps its not even furniture! I have 3 identical items of this. Constructed in a type of metal with cables. Plastic balls are on the ends. These "jacks" (thats what they remind me of) can be turned several ways on any side. The 3 pieces do not have any identification on them whatsoever. Don't know who made them. I must say though, whoever did make these did an excellent job! There tight with no looseness and the bars are all straight.
Can you imagine just trying to put these things together?!! :0
Anyone know what they are or who made these?
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FLOUNDERart
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| Posted: 2004-07-08 7:08 pm Permalink
Could they be the bottom half (legs) of tables. Are thet level enough to set a round piece of glass on?
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freddiefreelance
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| Posted: 2004-07-08 7:15 pm Permalink
Perfect timing, just in time for the release of Bucky's stamp! These are Geodesic demonstrators to show how tension is more important than compression in Geodesic design. You can see that the whole design distorts when you press down on the bars, the tension increasing on the cables between the bars, then they spring back up when released. I believe that you can put a tempered glass table top on these, but they'll perform their demonstrator function if you put too much weight on'em.
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docwoods
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| Posted: 2004-07-09 06:38 am Permalink
They look like those bar puzzles that make you crazy trying to figure out,and then someone smugly shows you how easy it is to solve and then you kick them in the shins.
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RenTiki
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From: Orange, Burnt O.C., Crispy Calif.
| Posted: 2004-07-09 07:41 am Permalink
docwoods, you're too funny! I doubt it's a annoying puzzle. I don't think these things come apart.
Flounder, I think you're correct. Setting these on one certain side reveals 3 legs that could support a table top.
Perhaps two for a coffee table and one for an end table?
Um, Freddie, the cables are waaaay tooo tight for any fluctuation. Woowee, kinda sounds like a nasty word, dosn't it?! Hehehe.
But nice theory ya got there. Who the hell is Bucky? 
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purple jade
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| Posted: 2004-07-09 08:05 am Permalink
Buckminster Fuller, father of the geodisic dome.
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Johnny Dollar
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From: Baltimore, Maryland, PNG
| Posted: 2004-07-09 08:09 am Permalink
without bucky fuller, what would the original hippies have lived in?
put a few tikis in _this_ baby!
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FLOUNDERart
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| Posted: 2004-07-09 08:37 am Permalink
Has anyone else noticed that Johnny Dollar has a pic for everything!
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Feelin' Zombified
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| Posted: 2004-07-09 08:51 am Permalink
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On 2004-07-09 08:37, FLOUNDERart wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that Johnny Dollar has a pic for everything!
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Interesting theory. There is only one way to test it. J$, any nude pics of Ernest Borgnine?
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Johnny Dollar
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| Posted: 2004-07-09 09:13 am Permalink
sorry, best i could do
hope my pix don't bother you, i'm just a visual person
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Feelin' Zombified
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From: The Exotic Shores of Lake St. Clair
| Posted: 2004-07-09 09:17 am Permalink
We have a Weiner!
I for one, being from the MTV generation, dig the visuals. Keep on keepin' on, J$.
As for the original topic, you could always tell your friends that they are models of Mai Tai molecules.
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freddiefreelance
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| Posted: 2004-07-09 10:12 am Permalink
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On 2004-07-09 07:41, RenTiki wrote:
docwoods, you're too funny! I doubt it's a annoying puzzle. I don't think these things come apart.
Flounder, I think you're correct. Setting these on one certain side reveals 3 legs that could support a table top.
Perhaps two for a coffee table and one for an end table?
Um, Freddie, the cables are waaaay tooo tight for any fluctuation. Woowee, kinda sounds like a nasty word, dosn't it?! Hehehe.
But nice theory ya got there. Who the hell is Bucky?
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Bucky!
J$, is that picture from Bellavista in Equador? I'm gonna hafta do some searching for more pictures of that!
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Johnny Dollar
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| Posted: 2004-07-09 10:31 am Permalink
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On 2004-07-09 10:12, freddiefreelance wrote:
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On 2004-07-09 07:41, RenTiki wrote:
docwoods, you're too funny! I doubt it's a annoying puzzle. I don't think these things come apart.
Flounder, I think you're correct. Setting these on one certain side reveals 3 legs that could support a table top.
Perhaps two for a coffee table and one for an end table?
Um, Freddie, the cables are waaaay tooo tight for any fluctuation. Woowee, kinda sounds like a nasty word, dosn't it?! Hehehe.
But nice theory ya got there. Who the hell is Bucky?
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Bucky!
J$, is that picture from Bellavista in Equador? I'm gonna hafta do some searching for more pictures of that!
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apparently so... http://users.etown.edu/s/selchewa/home/bellavista.html
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freddiefreelance
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| Posted: 2004-07-09 10:32 am Permalink
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On 2004-07-09 08:09, Johnny Dollar wrote:
put a few tikis in _this_ baby!
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Here's some interior views. Thatch, Bamboo, woven grass matting... And a Geodesic Dome! Now I've got another idea for what to put on that little piece of dirt near the beach in San Felipe!
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tiki-riviera
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| Posted: 2004-07-09 10:35 am Permalink
Those are Polish num-chucks.
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