Thread: Crows Ash Kitchen Benchtop

Good having you here Pete, enjoying the WIP


Dave

The Turning Cowboy

Thanks Mate, I value your support and friendship.

Pete.

Here are a few pics of the last of the fitting and gluing of the corner details and splashback coving. The last two pics show the assembled joint. Tomorrow I will complete the edge profiling. Then I will need to wait for the kitchen floor to be tiled so that I can install the cabinets and benchtop. The joins in the last pics are still dry and will be epoxy glued on site. The benchtop will be finished on site also. I be using a hybrid Tung oil and polyurethane wipe on clear finish so that it dries fast and I can build up the coats.

Enjoy!

Pete.
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Here are a few pics of the completed benchtop. I will post some pics after it is installed.image.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpg

Thankyou all for the interest in my project and for your positive comments, advice and support.

Pete.

Like the curve on the front of the bench. Two stage curve over just a round curve like post formed tops looks good

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

I gotta tell you that the bottom curve was a bit of a bugger to do. It's a big custom ground cutter and you've really go to hang on to the router. I made several passes backwards before finishing with a normal forward pass. I wa s glad when it was done.
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Pete.

Originally Posted by Pittwater Pete

I gotta tell you that the bottom curve was a bit of a bugger to do. It's a big custom ground cutter and you've really go to hang on to the router. I made several passes backwards before finishing with a normal forward pass. I wa s glad when it was done.

Crikey, that looks like the kind of bit that would never finds its way into my router - even in the router table.

The benchtop looks wonderful.

A few months ago I bought a heap of laminated karri to make our benchtops but never got them done - bent like bananas.

Anyway, I hope your local milkman never sees your photos.

cheers
Arron

Originally Posted by Arron

The benchtop looks wonderful.

Yes it sure does. Looking forward to seeing it in place.

Originally Posted by Arron

The benchtop looks wonderful.



Anyway, I hope your local milkman never sees your photos.

cheers
Arron

I'm just minding them for him.

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Crikey, that looks like the kind of bit that would never finds its way into my router - even in the router table.

I've got one of the big old Hitachi routers, thankfully with soft start. I took it real easy. The reason for the backward passes, for those that may not know, was to stop the router grabbing and puling into the workpiece. With a big cutter, that can be disasterous. I kept doing easy backward passes until there was only about 1.5 mm left to remove. Then I did an easy forward final pass.

Pete.

thanks for the added detail. What does it cost (if you dont mind me asking) to have a bit reshaped?

DaveTTC

Turning Wood Into Art

Here's the Crows Ash offcuts all bundled and ready for you Dave. Now the pressure is really on for you to produce some serious WIPs. Starting with a drunken scoop.

Geez I was just in Newport this arvo and catching up with Dave in Melb. Sorry not going back.