Thread: Jarrah version of Major's hall table

As usual, your work is exemplary. Love it, Rocker

There's certainly some very talented people around. A beautiful table Rocker. Stylish, functional, it has it all.

Beautiful work Rocker


Ross

Looks beatiful Rocker. Can you access much Jarrah in QLD? Living in Jarrah country in Margaret River - it's abundant. It's interesting to read so many posts in this forum that refer to work done in Jarrah. I've been hoarding Jarrah for 10 years as I could see an eventual decline with the move away from logging. Of all the hardwoods we have, I find Jarrah the best to work with....

Anyway, main reason I write is to beg for whatever "lessons" you learned about spraying lacquer from Major. I'm jealous.

A terrific piece Rocker and beautiful grain on the top. What advice did Major have regarding the inlay . I hope you don't intend leaving it against the brick wall though.

Peter

Richard,

Jarrah is easily obtainable over here but is fairly pricey at around $4000 per cubic metre. But the table, which, except for the rear apron, was all made from one 300 x 50 x 2000 board, only used about 0.03 cubic metres; so the wood only cost about $120.

I think your best bet with spray finishing is to buy the book that Major lent me, 'Spray Finishing' by Andy Charron (Taunton).

Rocker

Excellent piece of work Rocker!

I thought the choice of Jarra was brilliant, it set the Silver Ash off well.

I'd like to see some of that US Maple, if it's whiter than Silver Ash, it would make for some great stringing.

Anyway a good time was had by all

Very nice Rocker.

How do you do your stringing?
Do you cut your own strips? how do you make the 'groove'? etc..

Also, how far would you go accross grain before you started to worry about expansion and contraction?

bee-yoo-tiful

Ben,

The stringing is not that hard. I ripped a strip about 3 mm thick from a board of silver ash, then put it through my thicknesser to bring it down to about 2.3 mm thick, to fit into the 4 mm deep groove that I routed with my 3/32" solid carbide bit, bought from Lee Valley.

I would not worry too much about the cross-grain problem, if you use PVA glue, which can allow some movement. I have put a 6 mm wide ebony inlay for 400 mm across the grain on an American cherry coffee table without any problem after several years. I actually used epoxy on this jarrah table, since the across-grain part of the stringing was only about 80 mm long, and I wanted to have plenty of time to install the stringing before the glue went off.

Rocker

Enviable work - nicely done!

An article on this table is now published online at http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgdcspjt_946zq65d

Rocker

Rocker and Major? I hate you both! :eek: That is just TOOOOO Bloody beautiful

Really, really nice Rocker. Thanks for continuing to inspire us.

Tex