Thread: Making a Lie-Nielsen Plane from Start to Finish

Originally Posted by IanW

Really? Desk2.jpg 13 Done.jpg

Or what about this?

You must get bored easily!

I do agree that you can get tired of the "oaks" pretty quickly. They were over-used to blazes mid last century, but used sparingly they can be ok in my book.

I've worked with Walnut, cherry, maple & other northern woods a fair bit too, and they are certainly nice to work with (mostly) but we have plenty of equally nice species here - just getting difficult to impossible to source!

Cheers,

Now if all QLD maple looked like that eh LOL.

Originally Posted by The Spin Doctor

Now if all QLD maple looked like that eh LOL.

Well, it's rather easy to overdo highly figured woods, though. That desk and a couple of bookmatched doors on other pieces are the only figured furniture in our house (the music stand was a commission), the rest are much plainer & rely on their lines for any eye appeal.

The irony is that when I were a lad, highly figured woods were more often avoided than embraced, too much bother for our local undertaker/cabinetmaker. Most 'plain' maple does have prominent stripes of rowed grain, which fortunately causes no, or very little tear-out, so you see plenty of 'stripey' old maple. It was only when I was living in Canada & saw some of their figured maple & cherry pieces that I came to appreciate more spectacular figure in wood.

But as I said, easily overdone....

Cheers,