Steve Wargo
10-24-2005, 12:06 AM
O.K. Please excuse the picture quality. The photographer has moved and won't be set up for another 45 days. I convinced him to come to my house on Tuesday so these are from my own crappy camera and lighting. Should have some better ones for the web page in a couple days.
Now for the piece. Here is a Red Oak and mottled Makore chest of drawers with solid Macassar Ebony accents. All of the oak was actually dimensioned by hand as I chose to work late at night when the kids where asleep and the thickness planer couldn't be run. The drawers are all syacamore and Through DT'd on the front and back (sorry for no close up, the camera I have gets fuzzy in close). The veneer was all seemed by hand and scraped by hand. The ebony for the top was all hand planed and thicknessed and chamfered. The cockbeading was all cut by hand with a moulding plane. Talk about a pain in the A$$. I spent probably about 4 hours just cleaning up the tear-out for the from the moulding plane with a scratch stock. The overall size of the piece is about 45" wide and 18" deep. The drawer pulls were some quick and dirty bowties made out of solid macasser. All of the seconday wood inside for the runners and kickers are hard maple. The figure on the the top is really much better than the pictures show There are about 8 coats of oil/urethane mix whiped on, and toped off with a thick coat of laquer rubbed out with 2000 grit sand paper. A nice semi gloss finish. Enjoy, and as always comments welcome. FWIW I only paid 10cents a square foot for the makore. Yep, that's a gloat, but it was only 4 1/2" wide so there is quite a bit of seaming involved in this piece.
http://madhunkyworkshop.com/images/FairFrontShot.jpg
http://madhunkyworkshop.com/images/CrappyTopShot.jpg
http://madhunkyworkshop.com/images/SideShot.jpg
http://madhunkyworkshop.com/images/CloseUp.jpg
Now for the piece. Here is a Red Oak and mottled Makore chest of drawers with solid Macassar Ebony accents. All of the oak was actually dimensioned by hand as I chose to work late at night when the kids where asleep and the thickness planer couldn't be run. The drawers are all syacamore and Through DT'd on the front and back (sorry for no close up, the camera I have gets fuzzy in close). The veneer was all seemed by hand and scraped by hand. The ebony for the top was all hand planed and thicknessed and chamfered. The cockbeading was all cut by hand with a moulding plane. Talk about a pain in the A$$. I spent probably about 4 hours just cleaning up the tear-out for the from the moulding plane with a scratch stock. The overall size of the piece is about 45" wide and 18" deep. The drawer pulls were some quick and dirty bowties made out of solid macasser. All of the seconday wood inside for the runners and kickers are hard maple. The figure on the the top is really much better than the pictures show There are about 8 coats of oil/urethane mix whiped on, and toped off with a thick coat of laquer rubbed out with 2000 grit sand paper. A nice semi gloss finish. Enjoy, and as always comments welcome. FWIW I only paid 10cents a square foot for the makore. Yep, that's a gloat, but it was only 4 1/2" wide so there is quite a bit of seaming involved in this piece.
http://madhunkyworkshop.com/images/FairFrontShot.jpg
http://madhunkyworkshop.com/images/CrappyTopShot.jpg
http://madhunkyworkshop.com/images/SideShot.jpg
http://madhunkyworkshop.com/images/CloseUp.jpg