Jim Morrow
03-31-2003, 10:05 PM
Hi guys,
This is my version of a library desk original designed by Harvey Ellis while he was working for Gustav Stickley. The original version was made out of QS white oak (what a surprise), my version is made out of Curly maple with padauk accents. A combination I will never use again, although I really like the look, keeping the padauk from migrating into the maple turned out to be quite a challenge. All the construction is pretty straight forward mortise and tenon. The mortises are pegged with square padauk pins. The drawer fronts are edged with 1/8 x 1/4 padauk. Instead of going with my usual half blind dovetails on the drawers, I went with rabbets pined with padauk dowels, no reason, I just wanted to go with something different. I went with breadboard ends on the top which is a change from the original design. The only reason is it gave me an excuse to use padauk pegs, which I thought would look nice and help tie the desk together. The ends of the top were rounded over with a hand plane. the finish is sprayed lacquer. I used those aerosol spray cans, what a pain, maybe this will give me motivation to hook up my spray gun. Well that’s about it, I hope you all like it, I’m pretty happy.
Thanks for looking,
Jim
http://www.woodworking.org/imagepost/200303/deskbb.jpg
This is my version of a library desk original designed by Harvey Ellis while he was working for Gustav Stickley. The original version was made out of QS white oak (what a surprise), my version is made out of Curly maple with padauk accents. A combination I will never use again, although I really like the look, keeping the padauk from migrating into the maple turned out to be quite a challenge. All the construction is pretty straight forward mortise and tenon. The mortises are pegged with square padauk pins. The drawer fronts are edged with 1/8 x 1/4 padauk. Instead of going with my usual half blind dovetails on the drawers, I went with rabbets pined with padauk dowels, no reason, I just wanted to go with something different. I went with breadboard ends on the top which is a change from the original design. The only reason is it gave me an excuse to use padauk pegs, which I thought would look nice and help tie the desk together. The ends of the top were rounded over with a hand plane. the finish is sprayed lacquer. I used those aerosol spray cans, what a pain, maybe this will give me motivation to hook up my spray gun. Well that’s about it, I hope you all like it, I’m pretty happy.
Thanks for looking,
Jim
http://www.woodworking.org/imagepost/200303/deskbb.jpg