An Armoire…

[Christian Hawkshaw]

Oh that is a wonderful piece with some awesome looking wood. The design is restrained but elegant, with great proportions.

Take a well-deserved bow. And get the Bengay because I bet that thing was heavy to move.

John

Thanks. I can’t claim full credit for the design. I was inspired by Holzer Ames Furniture's Sapele Armoire. I mainly borrowed the eyebrow door frame design and using pomelle panels.

https://www.holzerames.com/robert-hank-holzer-1

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...e+Armoire+.jpg

[Mark Rainey]

Christian, well done! I like large pieces - attractive and functional.

[Andrew Hughes]

Excellent looking piece. I also like the color .
Thanks for sharing with us

[Christian Hawkshaw]

Christian, well done! I like large pieces - attractive and functional.

Excellent looking piece. I also like the color .
Thanks for sharing with us

Thanks Mark and Andrew

[Christian Hawkshaw]

Mods, you can delete this post if you want...I could not revome the attached thumbnails so I could upload the fixed pictures...so I reposted in another entry.

[Christian Hawkshaw]

Here is the some of the pics during finishing steps up through the boiled linseed oil…
Before fuming:

finishing_before_fuming.jpg

Fuming:

finishing_fuming.jpg

After fuming:

finishing_after_fuming.jpg


finishing_after_fuming2.jpg

Door after ammonia fuming with light door frame:

finishing_light_door_frame.jpg

Door frame after rubio tannin reactive pretreatment:

finishing_after_rubio.jpg

The above pic makes the rubio treatment look much darker than it is...here is another pic that is more accurate:

finishing_after_rubio2.jpg


After boiled linseed oil (I did not get a pic of the door at this stage):

finising_after_BLO.jpg