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16th November 2017, 09:17 PM #1Taking a break
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Desk and file cabinet
A matching desk and file cabinet in American cherry. Construction is veneer with solid tops, drawer faces and mouldings. The desk will have a leather writing surface.
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The front of the desk has 2mm grooves to match the drawers and the panels were nested on the CNC so that the grain continues all the way around each drawer tower. The width of the flitch the veneer was cut from also had the unintended bonus of both towers having the same grain position.
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The file rails are 38x5mm brass, one size up from what I asked for, but they'll never bend . The file drawers in the desk were specified to come out as far as possible, so we added a half-height divider at the back to take advantage of the extra space the long runners provided.
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16th November 2017, 09:23 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Very nice work.
cheers....Roy
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17th November 2017, 08:36 AM #3
Fantastic work as ever;
What are you using for drawer runners? Are they normal heavy duty full length drawer slides but mounted on their sides underneath the drawers?Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.
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17th November 2017, 09:00 AM #4Taking a break
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All our runners are Blum Movento soft-close under mount
Putting side-mount runners flat is not recommended; they're not designed to bear loads in that direction and will sag when open and probably fail early
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18th November 2017, 03:23 AM #5
Nice looking pieces!
What finish are going with?
Have you chosen the knobs and/or pulls?
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18th November 2017, 05:11 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
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Elan,
I've noticed in several of your builds you've use North American woods like Oak and Cherry.
What is the clientele perception of American woods? Are they viewed as high end exotics? Do you find them easier or harder to economically obtain than native, cabinet grade species like Red Cedar, QLD Maple, etc.?
Cheers,
Luke
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18th November 2017, 05:12 AM #7GOLD MEMBER
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P.S. Looks great!
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18th November 2017, 09:51 PM #8Taking a break
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I believe the finish will be a single pack poly with a hand-rubbed wax over it.
Handles haven't been chosen yet.
Almost all of our residential projects are in American timbers (White Oak being the most popular, followed by Walnut and Cherry with a bit of White Ash), I'm not sure if there's any 'exotic' perception or if people just like it. We've also been churning through Blackbutt for some commercial jobs and it's insanely expensive; over $5k per cube, as opposed to under $3k for US Oak.
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7th December 2017, 09:55 PM #9Taking a break
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Here it is polished and delivered. The pics aren't as nice as I would have liked, but you have to work with the available light and be fairly quick with the client there - also, the boss took them, not me . Some are sideways, but opening to full size seems to rotate them the right way up.
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The brass was all sanded with a worn 120 belt on the drum of the linisher, lightly rubbed with some 240 on a block to remove the roughness, then clear coated to give a nice brushed finish. All the little clips were done with 600 wet/dry on glass. This pic is for illustration only and is from a previous job, the rail in the pic was also finished to 600; time didn't allow for it on this job, but I was quite happy with the coarser, brushed look.
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