Thread: Very nice Arron, but is it really woodworking?

yes it is. MDF and Chipboard are both perfectly aceptable choices as base material for veneer work.
The WW skill is in matching and applying the veneers


BTW, I really like the look of it.

thanks Ian,

by the way, I've just done a count-up and discovered this is the 65th significant item of furniture I've made in roughly 10 years of amateur woodworking (not counting built-ins or small things like boxes). Because I dont really know any other woodworkers I dont know if thats a lot or a little ?

Arron

A great result Arron. I love the design.

That is a strangely attractive piece Aaron. Well done.

Hi Arron would have to agree with ian as cabinet makers use the same materials and instead of veneer on the front they put mini orb or corrigated iron. Veneer looks much nicer don't you think. Yours looks great
Pal

Hi there,

great piece. I actually love the whole aesthetic, stainless steel legs and all! If you don't mind, have a query. From reading your post, I'm assuming the doors are laminated strips of solid timber. Can I further assume that you laminated a piece the whose length was equal to the width of your cabinet and then cut each door out across the laminations, or did you do each door separately, perhaps to make the clamping easier?

cheers

Originally Posted by 52RI

Hi there,
From reading your post, I'm assuming the doors are laminated strips of solid timber. Can I further assume that you laminated a piece the whose length was equal to the width of your cabinet and then cut each door out across the laminations, or did you do each door separately, perhaps to make the clamping easier?
cheers

Yes, thats right, the door fronts are laminated strips of solid timber. I thought of doing them in veneer as well - as I'd be able to use much more striking timbers, but wasnt confident that I could get the veneers lined up on edges and sides.

The door were done as 4 separate pieces, glued up individually. It would have been MUCH better to do it as one piece and then slice it into 4 doors, but I didnt have long enough pieces of the wenge, birds eye maple or ash, and the cost of that stuff stopped me wanting to buy any so I was basically just using up my old offcuts.

If I was doing it again, I would do it as one piece, making it a bit thicker then needed, then take it to someone with a wide belt sander to sand it flat, then finish-sand it myself, then chop it up into doors.

Doing it as I did, the grain of some of the pieces doesnt flow well across the doors, though this wasnt really evident till the finish sanding and varnishing was done. Also, the doors are a bit 'overworked' (corners slightly rounded and oversanded, not crisp).

We never stop learning in this game, and doing something a bit out of the ordinary ramps up the learning process even more.

cheers
Arron

very contempory , i like it and well done

Very well done

Arron
A very striking piece
well done

Looks wooden to me. .

do you have other " macro " photos ?

and the list of the wood who do you used ?

Hi Sebi
I'm not sure what type of photo you are wanting to see - let me know and I'll take something.

I'm thinking perhaps you mean a WIP photo. I dont take many of them, but I did take some photos of the caul clamps in action glueing the veneer down - so I'll attach those. I was pretty pleased with myself about this because its the biggest thing that I have veneered at home. I have used the caul clamp method on smaller items with zero problems so decided it was just a matter of scaling up the size. It worked well. As some of you may have read previously, I do quite a bit of veneering but have zero tolerance for iron-on veneer or contact cement methods. I was also stoked that the total cost of this method was whatever the cost of 24 coach bolts and wingnuts is (plus some scrap timber).

the timbers on the doors are (from the top)
1. figured Queensland maple
2. red cedar
3. silver ash
4. wenge
5. birds eye maple
6. wenge
7. silky oak
8. silver ash
9. jarrah
10. red cedar
11. jarrah
12. silky oak
13. red cedar
14. red cedar

The carcase is made of mdf (with edges epoxy-sealed for moisture stability) and covered with black onyx veneer ( Briggs Veneers - Manufacturers and marketers of quality natural timber veneer products and TrueGrain veneer products ).

cheers
Arron