Cherry/maple combination projects

[jack duren]

Have a project with cherry and maple but not sure of the combination. Any projects using both? Thx ....Jack

[Tim Malyszko]

Here is a link to the maple/cherry blanket chest I built a couple of years ago:

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=58860&highlight=blanket+chest

I like the combination of the two woods.

[Jim Kountz]

I dont think you can wrong with a cherry/maple mix, the two woods like very nice together when done tastefully. Now Walnut and Cherry, ooooo be still my heart!!

[Joe Chritz]

I have seen some large entertainment centers marketed by the "Amish woodworking" that are pretty gaudy with cherry/maple but it isn't the combo itself but the level and amounts used.

My personal preference is for one wood with another for accents, maybe cherry stiles and figured maple panels for doors if they are not to large.

Used in the correct proportions it can look stunning.

Joe

[Craig D Peltier]

110128 Looks nice to me.

[David DeCristoforo]

A couple of years back, my son and I did a kitchen using lyptus (very similar in tone to aged cherry) with maple panels and copper accents. I have a bunch of pictures that I could upload to my web site where you could look at them but it will take me a while...... It is very "contrasty" but it looks really nice if you like that sort of thing. My son does and so did the clients. The look is not for everyone. My experience is that people will either love it or hate it. Few are ambivalent.

Here's the pics... not great but you can get the idea...
http://www.daviddecristoforo.com/trask/

[Jay Jolliffe]

Well done kitchen David. The first pic has a curved end cabinet. How did you curve the panel for the door. On the rails do you steam bend them or are they a glued lamination or cut from thick stock?.

[David DeCristoforo]

The curved "panel" is a finished end panel. The doors are on the front and back of the island. The curved end was done with 2 layers of 3/8" "bendy ply". The first layer was veneered with maple so that the interior would be maple. Then the outside layer was veneered and the frame laid up over that. The curved rails are two 1/8" thick laminations glued up directly on the cabinet. The maple veneer was removed where the lyptus had to be glued.

[Jay Jolliffe]

Thanks David. Did you veneer the panel over a curved form? I tried veneering some bendy ply & then bend it, that didn't work out

[David DeCristoforo]

"Did you veneer the panel over a curved form?"

Veneered the first layer flat. Then attached it to the cabinet with glue and staples with the veneer on the inside. So the top and bottom cabinet decks were the "form". Then veneered the second layer flat and laminated it to the first with contact cement (with the maple out this time). Stapled at the top and bottom since the staples would be hidden under the lyptus rails. Very "down and dirty" construction that yielded a curved end that looks like it was much more work than it actually was.

[Dick Strauss]

Jack,
My first furniture project was a set of nesting tables. The legs and skirts were made of cherry. The tops were made with curly maple centers surrounded by mitered cherry boards separated by a slight dado. They were finshed with lacquer and rubbed out with wax/0000 wool. They look even better today now that the cherry has darkened with age.

The pics are on my other computer...

[jack duren]

Thanks for the post. This will be another poker table only in black,cherry and maple. The base mainly of maple veneers with a cherry. Will have the Yin-Yang sybol in the center. Similiar to the first only it was black and birch...

[Karl Brogger]

I like to mix species, but only in small dosages.

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