Handcarved cherry bombe cocktail table

[Brian Millspaw]

I just finished this commisioned table. It's 52" square and 20" tall. The sides and drawer fronts are bookmatched curly cherry veneer. The top is a four-way matched cherry burl veneer. Secondary wood is poplar and the drawers are soft maple.

enjoy

-Brian Millspaw

[Bruce Page]

Major WOW factor!
Brian, your piece has exquisite craftsmanship most of us only dream about.

[Bruce Volden]

Brian,

It's guy like you who make guys like me happy that at least I can start my chainsaw---for rustic craftsmanship ie: firewood!! This is simply fantastic!!! I REALLY like it.

Bruce

[Craig Michael]

Beautiful work.

[Jamie Buxton]

Brian, when you build a top like this, how do you assure that the veneer is flush with the lumber surrounding it?

[craig lorence]

Wow what a beautiful piece of furniture.

[Brian Millspaw]

Jamie, I run a 1/4" groove around the pieces, and use a snug fitting spline for alignment. It still takes a little fussing and sweating during the glue up to get perfect.

Thanks for the compliments everyone.

[Paul Grothouse]

Impressive peice.

[jeff vanek]

very nice!!

[Bobby O'Neal]

Jealous much

[Jim Becker]

Really, really beautiful work, Brian.

[Jim Tobias]

Brian,
That is a great piece..... design and construction.

Jim

[Ben Hatcher]

Wonderful job. How did you make the drawer fronts?

[Mark Valsi]

one of the best ever on this forum !!! Top Shelf !

[Richard Wolf]

Great looking piece. Beautiful job on the drawers. I hope you got the money you deserved.

[Van Huskey]

11 out of 10! Gorgeous work!!!

[Donny Lawson]

That is an Awesome looking piece. It's hard to find great craftsmanship like that anymore.

[Brian Millspaw]

Ben,
The cores for the drawer fronts are glued up to get big enough blanks. They are two blanks splined together. The top concave piece was coved on a 16" tablesaw by running diagonally across the blade. The bottom convex part was made by making a series of angled cuts and then handplaning off the points and sanding. After splining them together the drawer fronts were veneered in the vacuum press. One of the dovetails covers the spline and the moulding, which is routed in 1/8" and rabetted, covers the veneer seams.

-Brian

[Peter Gavin]

Beautiful thread. Can I get a close up of the carved feet? They are definitely Not your normal claw and ball.

:):D

Peter