Thread: Making a 'Mulberry' Corner Cabinet

Originally Posted by chambezio

All Hale Mr Woodwood!
Do we have in our midst Australias answer to the great Norm Abrams?
Thankyou for an extremely informative WIP. The way you explained your processes is very enlightening. Can I sit on the stool in the back row to watch the next installment?

Thanks...er... I think.

No food, drink or smokes in the back row. OK?

Ah Ha! So that's what the 'Mulberry' is about!

Oi! Stop digging me in the ribs Ozka! it's not fair to try and stop me paying attention, you know we are going to be tested on this!!

Brought my own stool so I can sit in the front row. Eagerly awaiting the next stage.

Looking foward to this one.. are you using horse sauce for your rub joins? and obviously you think radiata is stable for veneering ??
regards Chowcini

Originally Posted by chowcini

Looking foward to this one.. are you using horse sauce for your rub joins? and obviously you think radiata is stable for veneering ??
regards Chowcini

Yes and yes. Horse sauce allows me to rub boards together and to rub the Ash blocks onto the Pine backing for the mouldings. Radiata isn't my first choice, but Scots (Baltic) Pine is costly and English Oak is just out of the question.

Looking good WW.... I thought Mulberries were best matched with icecream?

Regards from Perth

Derek

Originally Posted by derekcohen

Looking good WW.... I thought Mulberries were best matched with icecream?

Regards from Perth

Derek

I' ll bring the icecream if you let me a seat in the back - this thread is some reading



....BTW , the color of that mulberrie board you' ve posted , WW , looked familiar to me - Google images confirmed my suspicions - the tree grows in Bulgaria (my country ) , and it 's BIG! Nobody uses it for furniture , but my grandfather , who was a cooper , claimed this is the best timber for wine barrels , as it was supposed to give medical properties to the wine ( grandfather was a big fan of this medicine ). Once we spent a whole day to cut three logs in half , as the biggest bandsaw in the vilage was not big enough - a full 100 cm in diameter

Mrs. Wood attended a wedding in WA last year and stayed at the hotel where the reception was held. 'The Girls' were all enjoying a drink on the patio prior to the wedding and Mrs. Wood started eating some ripe berries off an overhanging tree and sharing them around.

A waitress recommended they not eat the berries because she thought they were inedible. Mrs. Wood, in her infinite wisdom, said "Don't worry, they're Mulberries". The waitress looked like a stunned mullet and backed away. What was the name of this facility? Mulberry Mansion, in Fremantle, built, seemingly, in an old Mulberry orchard! Apparently some of the trunks were quite sizeable too.

Ah my feriend you have done it again!!

Like all of your WIPs and historical dissertations this is, and will continue to be,fascinating.

I like burls and burr and highly figured timber but in small doses. That clothes chest, while stunning, is overpowering to my eyes.

still, I look forward to your completed Mullberry.

I'll just sit on my esky on the end of the front row, if you dont mind.

Very entertaining and informative so far WW. Looking forward to more to come.

The weather has been abysmally hot and sticky and I don't thrive in those conditions, so productivity has slowed down to an even more meagre pace. However, I did go out to the shed in an all-too-brief spell of cooler weather on Friday and glued the face of the upper tier together and then glued it and the sides to the upper and lower end boards.


The front facings assembled.

I began with two pine laths which I screwed to the work table (the left one is clearly visible above and you can just see the top of the right one). The two laths were notched at the appropriate heights to accept the right side back edges of the end boards. These were a tight fit and I was then able to roll the assembly over and put a screw through the back of each of the laths into the end boards. This secured the end boards at the correct spacing and provided the necessary rigidity to enable me to attach the front facings.

The side facings are housed to locate the end boards and increase the surface area to be glued. The side facings were glued onto the end boards followed by the entire front facing.


The front right facing.

The left rear side will receive its back boards next. Then the locating laths will be removed and the right side back boards will be nailed on.

Sitting on Waldo's knees. Where was I when this started?

Very cool. So is the veneer from that slab you got from Sailor in Williamstown? Does that mean I can do something with mine now too? How did you resaw it into the veneer?

That's his name! I couldn't remember his name when I wanted to credit him with the timber. Some of the stuff is from Sailor and some is from another source.

No, you couldn't get the same result with the slab you have; you'd be better off giving it to me so I can dispose of it safely for you (put it to use in another up-coming job) .

I used a bandsaw to cut the Ash into veneer - you can't do it on a lathe!

Originally Posted by Woodwould

That's his name! I couldn't remember his name when I wanted to credit him with the timber. Some of the stuff is from Sailor and some is from another source.

No, you couldn't get the same result with the slab you have; you'd be better off giving it to me so I can dispose of it safely for you (put it to use in another up-coming job) .

I used a bandsaw to cut the Ash into veneer - you can't do it on a lathe!

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