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Toney Robertson
01-30-2008, 9:24 PM
Some new things for me on these projects.

I had never veneered anything before and I had never machine cut dovetails. I also used a card scraper more than I had before.

On the first one, the oak was reclaimed from the old high school that my two brothers went to before consolidation. We got 2-3 truckloads of casing, base and door frames before the walls came tumbling down. It has Madrona veneer that was picked up at Rockler for $5.00 for an eight sheet flitch. The pictures are not great. I could not seem to get focused and the color is not quite true. It is red but more like cherry before it ages.

The second is Walnut burl from Rockler. The frame material came from trees off of my Dad's land.

Both were veneered on 1/2" BB ply with pear veneer on the back. Both are quad matches.

Critiques and comments welcome.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Oaktray2.jpg


http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Oaktray.jpg


http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Walnuttray.jpg


http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Walnuttraycenter.jpg


http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Walnuttraydovetails.jpg

Toney
frank shic
01-30-2008, 9:31 PM
nice job, i especially like the bookmatched bottoms!
Roy Wall
01-30-2008, 10:17 PM
beautiful work Toney!!
Bruce Page
01-30-2008, 10:24 PM
Stunning work
gary Zimmel
01-31-2008, 12:06 AM
They may be simple trays, but the bottoms beautiful.

Great work Toney.
Toney Robertson
01-31-2008, 12:09 PM
Thanks for all the kind words.

I love working with wood. Now I wish I could make some money at it. :D

Toney
Elena Demeris
01-31-2008, 12:41 PM
Woah. That's amazing. Now for my newbie stupid question. As I understand it you don't go straight from tree to lumber to tray. You have to dry the wood? How do you do that? Do you have to have a saw mill to cut the log into usable lumber? I have a tree dump near my house that would be a great source of wood for projects if I only knew what I was doing!

I should think you could sell trays like those at juried craft shows no problem.
Toney Robertson
01-31-2008, 6:03 PM
Woah. That's amazing. Now for my newbie stupid question. As I understand it you don't go straight from tree to lumber to tray. You have to dry the wood? How do you do that? Do you have to have a saw mill to cut the log into usable lumber? I have a tree dump near my house that would be a great source of wood for projects if I only knew what I was doing!

I should think you could sell trays like those at juried craft shows no problem.

Elena,

The trees came off of my Dad's land but I did not do the cutting. We hauled them to a local sawyer and paid to have it done. These trees were cut 30 years ago but what we ended up with in terms of cost per board foot is ridiculous when you look at what walnut goes for now days.

Not including the gas and time to transport the logs we had $.25/bd ft for sawing and then $.15/bd ft for kiln drying. Not bad huh? We had to cut three trees down and got over 2000 bd ft out of them.

Now days it would probably be better and easier to get a portable band saw mill to come to you and saw your wood. They work great as long as the trees are not more than about 30" in diameter. At least the ones I have seen.

Good luck,

Toney
Joe Chritz
01-31-2008, 11:03 PM
The walnut one is PHAT!

My pool table is walnut burl but nothing near that figure.

Very nice.

Joe
Toney Robertson
02-01-2008, 7:04 AM
My pool table is walnut burl but nothing near that figure.

Very nice.

Joe

Thanks for the comments.

It makes it easy to create something nice when you start out with wood that gorgeous. Nature is the true craftsman.

Toney
Ray Turney
02-01-2008, 7:45 AM
Well done Tony