Thread: A George II Mahogany Reader's Companion

Apparently that Mahogany - more commonly knon as Brazillian Mahogany from my small knowledge - is very stable when seasoned properly.

I have seen an entire house lined with this time same timber. It was rather overpoweringoards were also done in thber. All the staircases and cupboards were made from the same timber. It was rather overpowering.

I have seen massive planks of this also. They were the length of the trailer on a semi, about 1200mm wide and slightly over 100 mm thick. Too big to put in my luggage to et home!

id like to see that sounds pretty awesome where was it?

Originally Posted by Woodkid

id like to see that sounds pretty awesome where was it?

The house was in Campos do Jordan ( The fields of Jordan ) a mountain town in Brasil.

MMy father-in-law took me down to a timber merchant's yard in my wife's hometown of Campos when he found out about my interest in timber. That is wher I saw the massive plank.

I had photos that have strayed from the fold of other huge slabs of timber in Brasil. Angelin Pedra, Tatajuba ( which is canary yellow when cut), and more Purpleheart in one spot than all of us put together are ever likely to see in a lifetime.

Woodwood
That's a very nice looking piece
However what intregues from this distance is the detailing on the frame / decoration between the legs. It looks as though teh grain runs vertically, implying that it's venerred.
Do my eyes deceive me?

Originally Posted by ian

It looks as though teh grain runs vertically, implying that it's venerred.
Do my eyes deceive me?

Yes, no and no. The grain of the apron is vertical, but it's solid, not veneered. Well, it's solid in as much as the vertical curved section is about 1/8" thick at the top and about 3/4" thick at the bottom, but the curved sections are glued onto a normal horizontal rail.

So it's a similar grain arrangement to the table you recently made, but a different construction technique.
I eagerly await the WIP pics

thank you

Originally Posted by Woodwould

It's all solid Mahogany except for the drawer linings which will be Oak.

Gosh - there's a lucky reader out there!

If it's to be bedside, would the drawer(s) be less likely to strike a reclining reader if they were at the front?

Originally Posted by Blue-deviled

Gosh - there's a lucky reader out there!

Who said anything about a reader? Any reader of this forum would be perfectly capable of making one of these for themselves!

Originally Posted by Blue-deviled

If it's to be bedside, would the drawer(s) be less likely to strike a reclining reader if they were at the front?

That is very true, but to do so would not be true to the original table I am copying. If the commissioner of the table is likewise unhappy with the drawer arrangement, I shall suggest they take a saw and make an opening in the front of the table and insert the drawers into the new aperture.

I think the secret to operating this table beside one's bed is to place it half an arm's length from the bed so access to the drawer can be accomplished.

Who said anything about a reader? Any reader of this forum would be perfectly capable of making one of these for themselves!

Reader of books!

Knowing the commissioner of this piece to be no philomath or bibliophile, and being as it will be used as a bedside table, I seriously doubt there'll be much reading done around it. I suspect the table will be purely for housing an alarm clock, condoms and ant-acid tablets.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

Knowing the commissioner of this piece to be no philomath or bibliophile, and being as it will be used as a bedside table, I seriously doubt there'll be much reading done around it. I suspect the table will be purely for housing an alarm clock, condoms and ant-acid tablets.

So it is a forum reader then (as long as the alarum clock is digital)!

Originally Posted by Blue-deviled

So it is a forum reader then (as long as the alarum clock is digital)!

It transpires the commissioner of the table is indeed a reader of this forum and he confirms the likely contents of the drawers, adding a cordless appliance and some sort of intimate balm to the list.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

Knowing the commissioner of this piece to be no philomath or bibliophile, and being as it will be used as a bedside table, I seriously doubt there'll be much reading done around it. I suspect the table will be purely for housing an alarm clock, condoms and ant-acid tablets.

isn't that what they mostly contain? Nothing much has changed over the eons.

Now this is so off topic I could not locate the smile.