Dan Bracy
01-12-2015, 5:03 PM
Hello everyone. First time post. I have been lurking around here for awhile and found out that I don't know jack compared to 90% of you!!! So I guess I am wondering if someone could make a few suggestions for my project.
First, a little background.... I am just a hobbyist and not exactly new to woodworking or projects, however I am a perfectionist and what would take a professional 4-5 hours takes me 4-5 days or even weeks for that matter!!!! They both look nice, but it just takes me considerably longer. I built my own 30x44 three stall garage that my "shop" is in the 3rd bay of. So I basically have a 20x30 area of my shop. Nailed every nail and screwed every screw of the garage, I poured all the concrete but did pay someone to power trowel it for me to a smooth finish so sawdust would be easily swept up.
I have a 2hp General hybrid table saw, a 14" Steel City band saw, and a Bosch glider 12" scms, and a GI Dust collection. I have lots of different blades and such for the table saw and scms, however I only have the original 1/4" blade on the band saw.
Okay, so here is the project:
I have a piece of walnut with a live edge with a beautiful knot and worm holes on the live edge. It is about 8 ft long, 1 1/2" thick, and the left edge is about 19" deep, towards the center it is only about 14" deep and then the right edge it is about 18" deep. The fireplace has a chase above it and the fireplace is 23" deep. So I am planning on adding walnut to that back of the mantel board to achieve the amount of overhang that I want for the mantel and to make that live edge mantel board appear to be one solid board.
So, I want a minimum of 4-4 1/2" of mantel overhang in that middle part. So with the fireplace being 23" deep and I want at least 4" of mantel overhang that puts me at 27" of needed depth at the middle of that live edge board. So I am going to need somewhere between 13-14" of attached walnut to the back of that live edge walnut.
My question is what is the best way to attach walnut on to the back of it and what walnut material. I was leaning towards some 3/4" walnut and then just build a "backer" frame under it for support to get me to the 1 1/2" thickness and dado that to the mantel board. However then I would have to basically glue 2 3/4" boards together to get me out to that 14" of thickness and then I would have 2 glue lines showing.
Or should I use say a 3/8" or 1/2" veneered ply and dado it to the walnut mantel and build a support frame under it to get me to the desired thickness of the original mantel board?
I do not have a planer or joiner.... so I plan on hand sanding everything. I do have a neighbor who has helped around the farm before putting in doors and such and I know he has a planer, but I don't know how big his Dewalt planer is....
So basically how would you guys attach more wood on to the back of the mantel board to get the desired depth that you want? I will get some pictures up soon of what I am working with. But it is time for me to go pick up my lil hooligan and spend some time playing tractors and tearing apart the house before mommy gets home.
Thanks guy. Much appreciated
-Dan
First, a little background.... I am just a hobbyist and not exactly new to woodworking or projects, however I am a perfectionist and what would take a professional 4-5 hours takes me 4-5 days or even weeks for that matter!!!! They both look nice, but it just takes me considerably longer. I built my own 30x44 three stall garage that my "shop" is in the 3rd bay of. So I basically have a 20x30 area of my shop. Nailed every nail and screwed every screw of the garage, I poured all the concrete but did pay someone to power trowel it for me to a smooth finish so sawdust would be easily swept up.
I have a 2hp General hybrid table saw, a 14" Steel City band saw, and a Bosch glider 12" scms, and a GI Dust collection. I have lots of different blades and such for the table saw and scms, however I only have the original 1/4" blade on the band saw.
Okay, so here is the project:
I have a piece of walnut with a live edge with a beautiful knot and worm holes on the live edge. It is about 8 ft long, 1 1/2" thick, and the left edge is about 19" deep, towards the center it is only about 14" deep and then the right edge it is about 18" deep. The fireplace has a chase above it and the fireplace is 23" deep. So I am planning on adding walnut to that back of the mantel board to achieve the amount of overhang that I want for the mantel and to make that live edge mantel board appear to be one solid board.
So, I want a minimum of 4-4 1/2" of mantel overhang in that middle part. So with the fireplace being 23" deep and I want at least 4" of mantel overhang that puts me at 27" of needed depth at the middle of that live edge board. So I am going to need somewhere between 13-14" of attached walnut to the back of that live edge walnut.
My question is what is the best way to attach walnut on to the back of it and what walnut material. I was leaning towards some 3/4" walnut and then just build a "backer" frame under it for support to get me to the 1 1/2" thickness and dado that to the mantel board. However then I would have to basically glue 2 3/4" boards together to get me out to that 14" of thickness and then I would have 2 glue lines showing.
Or should I use say a 3/8" or 1/2" veneered ply and dado it to the walnut mantel and build a support frame under it to get me to the desired thickness of the original mantel board?
I do not have a planer or joiner.... so I plan on hand sanding everything. I do have a neighbor who has helped around the farm before putting in doors and such and I know he has a planer, but I don't know how big his Dewalt planer is....
So basically how would you guys attach more wood on to the back of the mantel board to get the desired depth that you want? I will get some pictures up soon of what I am working with. But it is time for me to go pick up my lil hooligan and spend some time playing tractors and tearing apart the house before mommy gets home.
Thanks guy. Much appreciated
-Dan