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3rd August 2022, 04:31 PM #1
Franklin Ferrier
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Cricket Table in American White Oak
The Men's shed occasionally gets some scrap offcuts of a variety of species from a local staircase manufacturer. They're generally not very wide or long and usually end up in chopping boards
. I managed to pick over the bits to scarf and laminate together enough pieces to form suitably dimensioned stock to make this Cricket Table in American White Oak. The idea came from the description of an old English Oak reproduction in a book of Garden Furniture by George Buchanan.
It was a bit of a challenge as there's not a square angle in it. Here it is in the raw, I haven't decided on a finish yet.
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8th August 2022, 09:07 PM #2
Dusty at the best of times
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I often use OSMO with a white tint to maintain the natural look of the American Oak
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27th August 2022, 11:53 AM #3
Franklin Ferrier
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It's taken a while but I finally decided to keep playing around and try fuming as the first step of finishing.
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3rd September 2022, 11:53 AM #4
Franklin Ferrier
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I left the table in my makeshift fuming tent for 3 days by which time the tray of cloudy ammonia (20%) had almost fully evaporated. The table colour had darkened perceptibly but not really all that much. Perhaps I should have kept topping up the ammonia during the fuming. Anyway, what I think it had done was bring out a greyishness in the wood.
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Reading about fuming in a FWW article, and since I have some old shellac flakes laying around, I then decided to try and 'warm up' the colour again by applying a coat of orange shellac. Not being sure where this will eventually end up (either inside or outside), I finished off with a couple of varnish coats.
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I'm happy with the result, although I think old George would have preferred a simple coat of Linseed Oil and left it to just weather out in the garden.
Franklin
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