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16th December 2005, 09:41 PM #1
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Really Dark Timber
Good evening everyone,
My father has a Boyce Moto-Meter from a Buick. For those who may not be familiar with this item, it is a radiator cap/device with a built in temperature thermometer. It comes from a Buick of about 1912 to 1920 vintage.
Anyway, it is a really nice chrome and glass piece and I wanted to mount it upon a piece of timber shaped like the top of a Buick radiator. These came in Chrome and Painted Black back then. I thought it would be most striking on a timber as black as black as I can get it. Like ebony, but not necessarily being ebony.
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So the question is, does anyone have any suggestions as to which timber would be suitably dark either left reasonably natures (say with just a rubbed oil finish), or a timber that would take some treatment to darken down further than it's natural state.
What do you think?
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16th December 2005, 09:44 PM #2
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Why not paint the timber black and get a more authentic look?
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16th December 2005, 09:48 PM #3
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That would seem to make sense wouldn't it.
I guess the look I am going for is really really dark, but would still like to see the grain a little. Sort of a contrast of timber to the metal of the meter, which is really the focus of the piece.
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17th December 2005, 12:36 PM #4
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Old jarrah is often almost black.
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17th December 2005, 01:04 PM #5
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Shiver me timbers in Williamstown has quite alot of Ebony in stock at the moment ...... the prices made me turn black
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17th December 2005, 05:57 PM #6
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I hope he gets back to full health soon.
Originally Posted by nt900
Good evening everyone,
My father has a Boyce Moto-Meter <O</O
Al
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17th December 2005, 06:25 PM #7
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If you use some black spirit dye it usually lets the wood grain stand out.
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17th December 2005, 06:45 PM #8
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Don't have wide experience with timbers but two native species I have used that are very dark (but more dark chocolate than black) are Black Bean & Forest Red Gum (well that was what it was sold to me as). Some pieces of the Forest Red Gum have glorious grain. And it's so dark that people think I've stained it.
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17th December 2005, 10:37 PM #9
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Suggestion: Design the mount with the end-grain visible -- lots of timbers are very dark on the end grain (Jarrah, Blackwood)
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17th December 2005, 10:58 PM #10
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Have a look at this post.
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...4&postcount=12Those are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others.
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18th December 2005, 04:17 PM #11
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Besides ebony, it is possible to get "fossilised" redgum, which is really really black. If you want to see some grain I would go for ebony cause that sometimes has pale streaks through it. Either one of those is really expensive.
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19th December 2005, 09:55 AM #12
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What about wenge? There's a slab of it at Trend Timbers that looks like it fell off a grand piano.
Considerably cheaper than ebony, too.
Cheers,
Andrew
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19th December 2005, 12:11 PM #13
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Black nugget works well
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22nd December 2005, 01:02 AM #14
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Well I like all of those ideas, except the black nugget one.
Shiver Me Timbers ebony would be great, but it seems such a waste to use a reasonably large piece for this project, where I think it really works it's best (subjective) incorporated as small pieces with other timbers. I might pop in a take a look though, but I am afraid I might like it to much.
I also like the ebonising idea from Liberon. Even if just to experiment with the product.
And thanks Al for your good wishes.
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22nd December 2005, 01:08 AM #15
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Dont knock anything till you try it Originally Posted by nt900
Well I like all of those ideas, except the black nugget one.
nugget is a sensational way of coloring. buffed in hard on dence timber and laqured over will give a real deep black lusture
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