Thread: Couple of Works In Progress

Nice. Thanks for posting.

Pulling up a stool to watch the work in progress.

I like the coffee table Lance but excuse my ignorance Please, what's a plane tree?
Cheers, Ian

Old aircraft are recycled..... anything useful inside is compressed and then mixed with glue (similar to MDF) then once dried can be sliced any way you want too. Tropical Queensland temperature would be tooo moist to use it long term.

Originally Posted by Nanigai

I like the coffee table Lance but excuse my ignorance Please, what's a plane tree?
Cheers, Ian

London Plane tree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platan...%97_acerifolia

Spoil sport

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Tonto, you're a very naughty boy.

Thank you. I try very hard to be

sorry for hijacking the thread...well sort of sorry

Nighswerk on both!!!

I have always liked London Plane tree and this is a good example of why.

Rimu is another timber I like. Just can't get hold of any!!!

Use mainly recycled Rimu, this was from an old bed-head.

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With beeswax on.

Hi Lance, I like your work.

Beeswax can smell nice, is soft and easy to spread but it can stay sticky and attract dust. It is better to use a furniture wax that has a high content of Carnauba wax, which is very hard and leaves a good shine without attracting dust. I don't know if there is a distributor there but UBeaut's waxes have carnauba and other hard waxes mixed in so give a great hard-wearing finish. Antique shops also often sell good quality furniture waxes that have a high carnauba content. Liberon is one brand I know of. Another alternative is to use a microcrystalline polyethylene wax like the Renaissance brand. At one stage many museums were using that to protect their furniture.

Nice going on the corner table.

I know it is a corner table and I am just wondering if the corners would look better if they were rounded. I guess it would look fine once the table is in the corner.