Desk and bookcase

**elanjacobs** · 12th September 2017, 11:08 PM

One desk and one bookcase in American Cherry for the Mormon Church to go to Samoa. I don't get to do the delivery, which is a shame because I could really do with a holiday after spending 150 hours on this

The sides, backs and drawer internals are veneer for stability and to help keep costs down, the rest is all solid timber. All Blum hardware with integrated soft-close on the hinges and runners, the shelf supports are brass with brass sleeved holes (that was a LOT of sleeves to tap in)

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The sides and drawer faces were all CNC routed with a 10mm groove to have a 9.9mm bead pressed in (I love digital machinery).

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Integrated LED lighting in the desk. The switch is on the right side of the drawer stack with wires run out the back to the power pack on top.

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File drawer with solid brass rails

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The door crosses were cut on the CNC in an over-thickness piece, leaving a few mm to be run through the sander to pop them out. This is a reject, I changed the order of operations afterwards to eliminate the breakout in the half-lap join. I would have liked to see glass in the doors instead of a panel, but I just make what I'm asked to

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150mm worth of crown moulding, done in 3 pieces.

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More pics to follow when it's back from the polisher.

**John Samuel** · 13th September 2017, 09:04 AM

Spectacular! Well done. I am jealous of your CNC gear.

**double.d** · 13th September 2017, 11:29 AM

That would be a job for my bucket list but you get to do it on a daily basis and get paid for it. Lucky man.

**seriph1** · 13th September 2017, 07:09 PM

That's truly a beautiful piece, expertly crafted. I'd love to see the CNC in operation. My dream equipment is a CNC and laser cutter!
Cherry is a lovely wood and you have used it to great effect.
Did you also design these pieces?

**elanjacobs** · 13th September 2017, 07:51 PM

No design work here, this client is VERY particular and always provides us with full details of what they want; we match mouldings as closely as possible from our cutter library, but everything else is by the book.

I don't have any footage of it running that I can share, but here's the beast:
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**seriph1** · 13th September 2017, 08:57 PM

Be still my beating heart!!!

**elanjacobs** · 22nd October 2017, 08:48 PM

Here they are polished

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5mm thick brass cable plugs; roughed out on the bandsaw, then finished by hand

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The file rails have notches in them to locate on small brass plates front and back

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LED strip lighting and with a fairly tidy looking switch from Hafele

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**ian** · 22nd October 2017, 09:32 PM

Thanks for posting the "after finishing" photos.

Is the time period for finishing -- in this case nearly 6 weeks -- around normal for this type or scale of work from your employer? Or were there some complications?

**elanjacobs** · 22nd October 2017, 09:41 PM

It was actually done about a month ago, I just never got around to uploading the pics.

**ian** · 23rd October 2017, 03:01 AM

Originally Posted by elanjacobs

It was actually done about a month ago, I just never got around to uploading the pics.

Thanks.

and thanks for sharing the pics

**John Samuel** · 24th October 2017, 02:20 PM

Beautiful work!

**Lappa** · 24th October 2017, 03:18 PM

That is stunning work! Thanks for sharing.

**John Saxton** · 24th October 2017, 08:59 PM

Nice work ,thanks for the pics.

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