Sassafras cabinet from Australia

[Terry Fogarty]

Howdy everyone:) Thought id pop in and show you a pic of a Low-line Plasma unit i made from Blackheart Sassafras. Its a pretty wild timber so care has to be taken keeping it simple.

Its 1500 X 550 (H) X 520 (D)
The main frame is Solid Goldern Sassafrass and is three-way counter top joined. That was fun i can tell youhttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif but it worked out ok in the end. The dividing between the doors and drawers are also mitered in as is the bottom rail wich compliments the 3-way join.

As Blackheart is so hard to find solid, i veneered up the side, top, door and draw fronts. To add the nice hand made final touch, instead of getting your standard crapy hardware, i made the handles from some Brazilian Walnut and good `ol Aussie Blackwood.

The unit has had five coats of mini wax wipe-on poly rubbed back with 400# inbetween. Wipe-on poly looks great with light creamy timbers.

And Masonite works a treat as a backdrop for the pichttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Oh you have a great forum here. Great info:D :D
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[Tyler Howell]

Lig,
That is Awesome.
Well done.
PS welcome to the creek.

[Mark Singer]

Excellent work and very nice design! Glad you joined us!

[Bob Childress]

Awesome wood and loverly work. :D

Welcome to SMC and come back often. Woodworking is about as international a love as there can be.

Again, splendid workmanship. :)

[Bob Reda]

Nice work!

And welcome to the creek

Bob

[Nissim Avrahami]

G’day mate

Welcome to the forum.
As always, grate work and beautiful design

Cheers
niki

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Lig..............Beautiful work and .........Welcome to the Creek!

[Scott Thornton]

That is an amazing piece of furniture! Excellent.

Welcome to the Creek!

[Terry Fogarty]

G’day mate

Welcome to the forum.
As always, grate work and beautiful design

Cheers
niki

Howdy Niki:D Fancy meeting you here, havnt seen you for a while:D .
And thanx for the warm welcom from the rest of you:D This is a ripper forum. But its going to take me weeks and weeks to go through all the old posts:eek: But it will be fun

[Jerry Strojny]

Wow, that's some cool wood. Great job on the joints too. I need to practice more.

Welcome to the Creek!!:)

[Terry Fogarty]

Woodworking is about as international a love as there can be.


Your right Bob :D And the world would be a better place if everyone was a woodworker:)

[Chuck Trisdale]

Your right Bob :D And the world would be a better place if everyone was a woodworker:)

Then we wouldnt have enough wood for ourselves:D

[Karl Laustrup]

lig, welcome to the "Creek". I can see you've done a wee bit of reading and looking before your first post, so you knew we like pictures.

Beautiful piece of furniture. Keep them coming. :D

Karl

[tod evans]

nice work lig!

[lou sansone]

welcome to the creek. nice work.

lou

[Brett Baldwin]

Very nice looking piece Jack. The hand-made handles are a great touch. Looking forward to your next one.

[Mike Chrest]

Low-line Plasma unit? Translation please.;) Liquor cabinet?
Mike
I want a Dommino! Beautiful wood and workmanship!

[Terry Fogarty]

Low-line Plasma unit? Translation please.;) Liquor cabinet?
Mike
I want a Dommino! Beautiful wood and workmanship!

Howdy Mike:) Here in Australia its called that because its low to the ground and a Plasma TV unit sits on it. Basic but true:D Very popular they are

[Corey Hallagan]

Welcome to SMC and that is a quite a work of art! Nice job.

Corey

[Tony Ward]

Well done Jack,

What you refer to as Australian Sassafras looks like our southern or Tasmanian Sassafras, (Latin: Atherosperma moschatum) which is only grown in the high rainfall areas of Tasmania.

It is one of my favourite timbers to work with because of it's fine finish.

[Terry Fogarty]

Well done Jack,

What you refer to as Australian Sassafras looks like our southern or Tasmanian Sassafras, (Latin: Atherosperma moschatum) which is only grown in the high rainfall areas of Tasmania.

It is one of my favourite timbers to work with because of it's fine finish.

Tony:D Its me Lignum:D Not alowed to use my Nic:( Howdy:D

[Ron Blaise]

Howdy everyone:) Thought id pop in and show you a pic of a Low-line Plasma unit i made from Blackheart Sassafras. Its a pretty wild timber so care has to be taken keeping it simple.

Its 1500 X 550 (H) X 520 (D)
The main frame is Solid Goldern Sassafrass and is three-way counter top joined. That was fun i can tell youhttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif but it worked out ok in the end. The dividing between the doors and drawers are also mitered in as is the bottom rail wich compliments the 3-way join.

As Blackheart is so hard to find solid, i veneered up the side, top, door and draw fronts. To add the nice hand made final touch, instead of getting your standard crapy hardware, i made the handles from some Brazilian Walnut and good `ol Aussie Blackwood.

The unit has had five coats of mini wax wipe-on poly rubbed back with 400inen. Wipe-on poly looks great with light creamy timbers.

And Masonite works a treat as a backdrop for the pichttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Oh you have a great forum here. Great info:D :D
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I didn't know you had Sassafras down under too. It's relatively common here in the south but doesn't grow very large, although I have seen some very large specimens. We make Sassafras tea from the sweet roots. I wonder if the trees are related? Great work & welcome to the forum :D
Ron

[Larry Crim]

That is sweet jack I really like the contrast in color, very well done.
Larry