Thread: Red Mahogany bookcase thingy

Claw Hammer
This is great work in progress pictures!! I learn so much from this type of building fine furniture. Thank you for sharing your excellent skills with us. I look forward to the unfolding of a fine piece of furniture.

Hey guys & girls
Yes Wheelin, Alans Cedar tables are sensational, don't forget them. There are lots of good WIPs on the forum but I for one don't always look at all of them. The title has to catch your eye but we should know by now not to judge a post by is cover
Didn't make much of an impression on the look of the first module today, I cut the top with a nice natural edge and screwed it in place. Screwed mainly so I can take it off if I have to take some of the natural edge off to suit the client when she sees it (just leaveing myself some space to move). I cut the rest of the tops but haven't thicknessed or tidyed up yet. I am thicknessing from 40 to 30mm for the tops (anyone need any sawdust for your garden?) I had to wait for the TNT to pick up the leaf, once they had been I went to my wharehouse and picked up some more timber to cut the wider bench top section out off. These have now been cut, tomorrow I will thickness, joint and glue up each module is 800 wide so the bench tops are 800 x 560 and 30mm thick. Only 2 photos tonight, the tops cut (really exciting) and the first top in position. It was later trimed, edges planed and screwed down with 6, Sachys/Robinson 12# x 60mm steel countersunk square drives. (with a touch of beez wax for extra lube) If I miss any vital details that anyone wants to know let me know

Beauty!! Think I'll join Wendy on the couch!

Red Hog! Lovely stuphph!!! And to think As a kid I split and burnt tons of it to keep us warm!!

Burns well and splits easy, that is one thing you have to watch when working with it.

I'm starting to feel like the lone council worker, one guy working and everyone else standing around watching. Get back to work you lot

I'm in front of the box, it's much to cold inside my tin box thanks.

We're all injured and on light duties. Your thumb has healed up so get back to work. You have to carry the load for quite a few of us now.

Get back to work? I didn't take any time off!! bunch of panzies

Originally Posted by Greg Ward

I can see board room table requests from the Forest Industry or Boral if you lobby hard enough.

Next project Cricket Bat?

Bit more progres, bench cut, glued, flattened (Noris A2) then scraped ("the DOG" home made scraper plane) trimmed ( saw then LV LAJ ) , fitted, both parts glued & doweled, the bench top was glued as well as metal angles screwed to allow movement. Thought I had a photo of the angles (oh well) Both top and bottom glued and doweled together, some trimming with the block plane(Millers Falls #56 with LN blade), a little sanding and shes upright. The next one is almost cut out and ready to start doing joints. Oh yes and drawer slides fitted. I will do all the drawers and shelves towards the end.

Is that nasty tear-out I see in shot 9?

You're a bloke who loves the hand tools. Keep it coming. I'm going no where while I wait for the oil to dry some more in this whether down here in Antartica.

Hi Waldo, was a little light tear out, the rest looked realy good so just the slightest of tear out (so light it was more just the grain changing direction) made it noticable. I only had to give it a light sand and it was gone. I was feeling a little lazey otherwise a little work with the hand scraper would have taken it away. Hand tools are the best, I love being able to hear the music. I use power tools to cut my stock but after that I try to use as few as posible.

A lot of hard work there Claw but the results speak volumes for the effort.

That is really beautifull grain and I hope it gets to show itself off in the finished product.

Hi artme, yes a few hours there, lots of M&Ts, not much to the flatening just tidying up the join a little really. I can't wait to put some finish on, thinking home brew Danish at moment. I just want the owner to check her emails and make sure she likes it before I put finish on ( just in case I have to adjust anything) I think/hope I know what she wanted, but she went o/seas before I could do up some final sketches. Fingers crossed.

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

I can't wait to put some finish on, thinking home brew Danish at moment.

Getting to the stage of putting the finish on, I think is the most rewarding. And it's about then that I can hear the radio in the shed.