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6th February 2024, 06:38 PM #61
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,IW
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7th February 2024, 09:52 AM #63
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,IW
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