Thread: Sample of work

Hmm - need to master the pictures-posting, too - looks like you can only post one pic at a time?
So here's the toolbox....

absolutely brilliant work, mate - well done!

Those Flame Cedar panels are unreal! as is the scale and proportions of both pieces!

In 1991, after seeing that issue of FWW, I rang around asking timber merchants what they had avaiable and a guy gave me a number ...... I called and bought a cube of Cedar and the same in silky Oak from a coffin maker in Qld when they were getting rid of it all as the business had changed to MDF and cardboard(believe it)

The price was unbeatable, but the tragedy was that there was a warehouse full of it and I only bought a thousand bucks worth..... a few months later I and a mate decided to buy the rest, which was probably 200 cubes...... they had burnt it. Dickheads

Anyway, enough of the sad anecdotes - yours is truly stunning work and again, simply proof that amateurs who do this for the4 love of it produce outstanding results.

Gawd - a story like that brings tears to the eye! Why on earth would you torch perfectly good wood of any kind, let alone a rare and valuable asset like that??? I suppose it takes all kinds..

To be honest, cedar is not my favourite cabinet wood - bleedin stuff is just so easy to ding before you even get the job off the bench. Figured Maple and Blackwood have to be up there, and it's a great pity Coachwood and Scented Rosewood are commercially extinct! But Cedar does polish well (have never figured out exactly why that should be, either) and the sideboard had to take its place with some similar stuff. The panels turned out ok, but I split the original slab whilst it was dead green, and the pieces dried very unevenly, so had to plane them down more than usual. That's why the bookmatch is not so exact - but only a fellow woodie is going to notice, I suppose. I got a better match on this Camphor bookcase......
Cheers,

great work ian.never had apprentiship or any other teachings..the same as yourself i got started and learnt a lot threw school.Mr Faulds was the teacher and he was the best teacher and mate i had at school,i spent many a lunch time in the dust and shavings.hopefully we can have a lot more teachers like that so that every one can enjoy the world of wood. here is the first thing i ever made.

very niiiiiice - what timber and finish is that? also, do you have a pic of the entire table?

the table is full jarrah from w.a..it is finished with straight laquor from cabots.yes i have full size image but all new to me ,i'm still trying to work out scanner.thanks for comment

Wow!