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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2006 17:10:12 GMT -5
A friend and I had a discussion a few days ago about or favorite stencil blade designs. Here are mine. If anyone isnt familiar with these and needs to see pictures let me know.
Nutone. They offered walnut/stencil blades and white/stencil blades on Verandas and Haciendas. Very 80s looking, very distinctive, very bold stencil. These I remember from my childhood, and have always been my favorite.
The very early Casablanca blades, the 56" ones with the arch ends and badge mounts (same shape as the 19th Century blades). These had to be among the first stencil blades. Very rare.
Early Homestead stenci. I've only seen these once. Much like the stencil on the arch-end Casablanca blades.
The stencil offered on Tara fans. Similar to the Homestead stencil.
Emerson and Lasko (both the TOC fans and the Japanese spinners).
Very early SMC stencil is also pretty cool.
What are your favorites?
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Post by newtonehunter on Apr 10, 2006 17:34:04 GMT -5
Stencil is tackey. Period. Unless the fan is so ugly that it matches. At least cane attempts to capture a mood. With stencil it was like "well, cane is too expensive, but we neet to slap SOMETHING on to the bottom of the blades, so..."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2006 17:36:12 GMT -5
I disagree! I love stencil. I dont like plain blades on an ornate/fancy fan, I think they need something for balance. Cane is quite noticable but stencil is subtle.
Was stencil inspired from antique fans, and if not, who came out with it first? I assume Casablanca.
Chris, arent you a Nutone dude, how can you NOT LOVE Nutone stencil?!
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Post by newtonehunter on Apr 10, 2006 18:03:26 GMT -5
I can appreciate NuTone stencil, but it doesn't compare to cane when on a Verandah! That fan was made for cane!
I am going to guess that the first stencil was on the old belt drive fans from the 70's. Ceiling fans were only a babe in the woods at that point, so that stencil was allowed
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2006 18:06:43 GMT -5
I dont know what you mean by allowed . . . but it appears you're referring to the first Casablancas.
Are you talking about the Veranda (friction drive) or the Veranda Deluxe? If the latter, which type of Nutone Cane Blades was it made for? There are three different types, to my count!
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Post by newtonehunter on Apr 10, 2006 18:13:09 GMT -5
Correct, the first Casablancas.
As for the NuTones, the friction drive was such an enigma that anything would look good on it. The second, the DeLuxe Verandah, looks good with the cane. And cane or stencil was not offered on the Verandah II.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2006 19:09:34 GMT -5
Ever seen a 36" Nutone Friction drive? Or, for that matter, any Nutone with 36" fiberglass blades?
I have a Veranda Deluxe with the fiberglass blades (original, on the very earliest models they were an option called "expanded styrene" you could also get walnut and white wood blades on the Friction Drives). Again, it would look cooler if they were real qood, but it looks awesome regardless. I'm really not wild about the other types of nutone cane, mainly because the corners and narrow blades makes it looking like bowling pins.
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Post by newtonehunter on Apr 10, 2006 19:15:24 GMT -5
Yes.
In fact, I used to have one. Unfortunatly, I trashed it because the motor was siezed up. I kept the brackets and the blades, but I eventually got rid of those as well. I beleive I offered the fan up for trade at one point, but nobody was intersted in trading a working fan for a non working fan, and the fan that I would have gotten in a trade wouldn't have been worth the cost of shipping the NuTone.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2006 19:20:36 GMT -5
Yes. In fact, I used to have one. Unfortunatly, I trashed it because the motor was siezed up. I kept the brackets and the blades, but I eventually got rid of those as well. I beleive I offered the fan up for trade at one point, but nobody was intersted in trading a working fan for a non working fan, and the fan that I would have gotten in a trade wouldn't have been worth the cost of shipping the NuTone. You talking about a Friction Drive? I would have wanted it, working or not. |
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Post by newtonehunter on Apr 10, 2006 20:05:27 GMT -5
No, no, it was a DeLuxe
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2006 21:11:04 GMT -5
I still would have wanted it. I can fix a locked up motor. And they look great with stencil blades! (trying to bring this back on topic)
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Post by ulkesh54 on Apr 11, 2006 17:35:23 GMT -5
I've got to agree with Chris. For the most part I really think stencil blades look kind of tacky.
However, the origianl stencil Casa blades (56") are really nice. The stencil looks appropriate on the blade and goes with the those fans really well.
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Post by JW on Apr 11, 2006 21:18:24 GMT -5
I likewise can't stand stencil, especially on a white fan. It looks decent on antique brass, but I can't say I have a favorite.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2006 22:29:37 GMT -5
JW reminded me I wanted to at Old Jacksonville stencil to the list.
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Post by newtonehunter on Apr 13, 2006 12:40:07 GMT -5
Some white fans, particularly those that are white and brass, look ok with stencil in their own wierd little way. Although speaking of white fans, I prefer solid white fans in most applications, because they never go out of style. Brass is okay...but kind of outdated. It is being replaced by wrought irons and stainless, which will too go out of style someday. Brown is just downright ugly, unless the room that it is in has been virtually untouched since the 70's(i.e. the picture of the Lasko spinner in the kitchen.) But hey, I am living in some crap-hole apartment, so anything goes...although I would like to have that NuTone in the kitchen...
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