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Tim Sproul
05-25-2004, 1:01 PM
I'm just starting this one.....laying out parts on the boards:

http://www.woodworkersweb.com/modules/gallery/albums/albur43/console_layout_overview.jpg http://www.woodworkersweb.com/modules/gallery/albums/albur43/console_layout_1.jpg

http://www.woodworkersweb.com/modules/gallery/albums/albur43/console_layout_top_dry.jpg http://www.woodworkersweb.com/modules/gallery/albums/albur43/console_layout_top_wet.jpg

http://www.woodworkersweb.com/modules/gallery/albums/albur43/console_layout_drawer_wet.jpg


And these, of course are the most important layout lines:

http://www.woodworkersweb.com/modules/gallery/albums/albur43/console_layout_important.jpg

The wood is madrone and works similar to hard maple. Obviously, the coloring is quite different than hard maple.

I'm planning on using the single board marked out as the table top and resawing for a bookmatched top. I thought I'd try it this way - I'll sandwich that board between 2 other madrone boards and then resaw the sandwich down the middle....

I haven't laid out the rear apron as it isn't a show part and so I'm not overly concerned with getting that one just right. I've got some alder for the internal structures and some very white hard maple for the drawer sides. I'll use port orford cedar for the bottoms...and may turn to using slips if the the aesthetics tell me to use thin drawer sides....overall dimensions I'm looking at about 30 inch height, around 4 to 4 1/2 feet wide and about a foot deep. Drawers will be constructed so that only the center line dividing the 2 fronts will reveal that there might be drawers...I'll shape a recess in the bottom edge of each drawer front as finger holds to open the drawers.

Chris....resawing some of my walnut will have to wait....decided on the madrone for this project.
Chris Padilla
05-25-2004, 1:08 PM
C'mon...your wimpy BS can't handle that madrone. Step up to the Max!! :D

Could you explain a bit about your method of the sandwich and resawing? I'm not sure I completely follow your thought train there....
Tim Sproul
05-25-2004, 1:15 PM
The meat of the sandwich is the board I've picked. The bread will be more "utility" grade board madrone....face glue all three boards together as a sandwich. Then resaw into 2 equal boards...giving me a double-wide, bookmatched panel. I think I can do this since all 3 boards are madrone and I'll pick out the 2 "pieces of bread" to be have come from a similar cut in the log.
Chris Padilla
05-25-2004, 1:21 PM
Ah, okay...that is what I thought. I guess you want to keep the top solid madrone and not fuss with veneering and substrate and edge banding issues. Sounds good to me!
Jamie Buxton
05-25-2004, 1:28 PM
Tim --

Where do you find madrone lumber? (I'm in the Bay area too.)


Jamie
Tim Sproul
05-25-2004, 2:08 PM
I happened upon these madrone boards. A fellow in Santa Rosa was looking to unload them.

Yeah, normally don't see them stocking in hardwood suppliers.

madrone can be difficult to find straight trunks...did you read Smalser's post on harvesting a madrone up in WA?
Byron Trantham
05-25-2004, 2:10 PM
That is a technique (sandwich boards) I'm not going to forget! Nice idea. :D
Jamie Buxton
05-25-2004, 3:42 PM
I happened upon these madrone boards. A fellow in Santa Rosa was looking to unload them.

Yeah, normally don't see them stocking in hardwood suppliers.

madrone can be difficult to find straight trunks...did you read Smalser's post on harvesting a madrone up in WA?

Yeah, I rarely see it in lumber yards, which is why I asked you where you got it. I've got an upcoming project which currently calls for madrone.

Madrone has big shrinkage coefficients. I've talked with guys who've used in furniture, and swear to never use it again because it moves too much. On the other hand, I had a brief conversation about madrone movement with Ejler Hjorth-Westh (the guy who now heads the College of Redwoods program, since Krenov retired). He says madrone isn't too bad, but it does help to let it stress-relieve for a while after you've resawed it.

Yeah, Smalser's report was interesting. There's a lot of furniture in that trunk! Madrones here in the Bay Area are rarely that big.

Jamie