John TenEyck
09-07-2022, 9:48 PM
A few weeks ago I showed some shop sawn walnut veneer.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AL9nZEWVJg2NwQUMyFBxSzAmIj11siQ8iWIFGljmKFaSsAJdse _rgemV7INgHdLBEwKNk-AJk9W1Scg9VKJT6SxbhzBcR8056pUwacmqAbReJy9XTyBvzxDy tmoefyz_-2jK3J8Tpb8B5KiNCOpGRP7BMTptAw=w1413-h795-no?authuser=1
I used it to veneer the shelves of some vinyl album and stereo components cabinets I designed for a local guy who likes his music in analog format. The cabinets sides are made of ash. I joined the stiles and rails with loose tenons using my horizontal router mortiser, easy peazy. To connect the shelves and stretchers to the sides I used my CNC to cut the required mortises, and the horizontal router mortiser to cut the corresponding mortises in the ends of shelves and stretchers. These album cabinets only have a few mortises, but the components rack has 25 in each side, not something I wanted to do my hand. Fortunately, the CNC did them all w/o complaint.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AL9nZEUr0U7Y7uQSMrPtVTlpP3rYAsMl_EmUg8EOCRCWrbWy3h KIv7XtDPA_gUtenGtHEsu4jrLCOmoS_DrW21vVZKPChCeeVQw8 I7aLknMd7YjRvHzJw0udDMAV1dVzvoOXiqLO1rIObdYqATdDaT w5bFl3nw=w1413-h795-no?authuser=1
The album cabinets glued up very easily as there are only 9 joints on each side. But the components cabinet, with 25 on each side, had me wondering if I should use liquid hide glue or epoxy rather than TB. Eventually, I decided to go ahead with TB II. The first side went together w/o issue because I could glue the stretchers and shelves one at a time, but the second side had to be done in one shot. It went together but not w/o a bit of a struggle. I got all the tenons started in the mortises and started to push and bang them into place using my hand, no mallet because everything was prefinished, but a few wouldn't close all the way with hand pressure only. I put some padded clamps on those joints and was amazed at how frozen a couple seemed to be. Oh boy, panic was setting in. I screwed the clamps up tighter, and tighter, to the point I was about out of hand strength, when, finally, BANG, it broke loose and closed. Whew! Gotta order some liquid hide glue.
Here are all five cabinets when I delivered them today.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AL9nZEWG9SUWXzKx9XmOTGq-zEuq4TwWzHbx-Ay4OoM3WC4MnNJcW2EjbrCgPPqTw5K3NM_nsFhHca9n-jUHzqaKioSEMg3s3LLreP7HQnIv2RWvrQOm3cYIHZ4UC0ako5r XXzs4nkqQUALQzXYmJfFSXawRtw=w1413-h795-no?authuser=1
The finish is GF's Black WB stain, two coats on the ash, followed by Enduro Clear Poly. The GF WB stain is really nice stuff, I'll try another color when the opportunity presents itself. It doesn't show in this photo, but the grain of the ash shows through the stain, exactly as I wanted. The walnut was finished with Osmo PolyOx, two coats. It's stupid easy to apply and has a little higher sheen compared to Rubio Monocoat, but its resistance even to just water was very poor. Fortunately, that shouldn't be an issue for these cabinets.
John
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AL9nZEWVJg2NwQUMyFBxSzAmIj11siQ8iWIFGljmKFaSsAJdse _rgemV7INgHdLBEwKNk-AJk9W1Scg9VKJT6SxbhzBcR8056pUwacmqAbReJy9XTyBvzxDy tmoefyz_-2jK3J8Tpb8B5KiNCOpGRP7BMTptAw=w1413-h795-no?authuser=1
I used it to veneer the shelves of some vinyl album and stereo components cabinets I designed for a local guy who likes his music in analog format. The cabinets sides are made of ash. I joined the stiles and rails with loose tenons using my horizontal router mortiser, easy peazy. To connect the shelves and stretchers to the sides I used my CNC to cut the required mortises, and the horizontal router mortiser to cut the corresponding mortises in the ends of shelves and stretchers. These album cabinets only have a few mortises, but the components rack has 25 in each side, not something I wanted to do my hand. Fortunately, the CNC did them all w/o complaint.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AL9nZEUr0U7Y7uQSMrPtVTlpP3rYAsMl_EmUg8EOCRCWrbWy3h KIv7XtDPA_gUtenGtHEsu4jrLCOmoS_DrW21vVZKPChCeeVQw8 I7aLknMd7YjRvHzJw0udDMAV1dVzvoOXiqLO1rIObdYqATdDaT w5bFl3nw=w1413-h795-no?authuser=1
The album cabinets glued up very easily as there are only 9 joints on each side. But the components cabinet, with 25 on each side, had me wondering if I should use liquid hide glue or epoxy rather than TB. Eventually, I decided to go ahead with TB II. The first side went together w/o issue because I could glue the stretchers and shelves one at a time, but the second side had to be done in one shot. It went together but not w/o a bit of a struggle. I got all the tenons started in the mortises and started to push and bang them into place using my hand, no mallet because everything was prefinished, but a few wouldn't close all the way with hand pressure only. I put some padded clamps on those joints and was amazed at how frozen a couple seemed to be. Oh boy, panic was setting in. I screwed the clamps up tighter, and tighter, to the point I was about out of hand strength, when, finally, BANG, it broke loose and closed. Whew! Gotta order some liquid hide glue.
Here are all five cabinets when I delivered them today.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AL9nZEWG9SUWXzKx9XmOTGq-zEuq4TwWzHbx-Ay4OoM3WC4MnNJcW2EjbrCgPPqTw5K3NM_nsFhHca9n-jUHzqaKioSEMg3s3LLreP7HQnIv2RWvrQOm3cYIHZ4UC0ako5r XXzs4nkqQUALQzXYmJfFSXawRtw=w1413-h795-no?authuser=1
The finish is GF's Black WB stain, two coats on the ash, followed by Enduro Clear Poly. The GF WB stain is really nice stuff, I'll try another color when the opportunity presents itself. It doesn't show in this photo, but the grain of the ash shows through the stain, exactly as I wanted. The walnut was finished with Osmo PolyOx, two coats. It's stupid easy to apply and has a little higher sheen compared to Rubio Monocoat, but its resistance even to just water was very poor. Fortunately, that shouldn't be an issue for these cabinets.
John