I have this room ready for Professor Dr. SWMBO to move her office into so I can do some major renovation work to the space it's currently located in. As we are sometimes prone to do here, I repurposed a piece of existing furniture for a credenza as she needed a lower solution for this storage need because a video friendly backdrop will be going on the wall behind it for fall classes.
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And then I remembered I had a very nice piece of mahogany that's been in my "inventory" for about a decade and a half...a nice piece that's 16.5" wide and more than long enough for the job. It was gifted to me by my cabinetmaker neighbor at the same time he gave me the purpleheart I used for my bench recently. So today's shop time was to take this:
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...and turn it into this:
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Because my jointer/planer width is 13.68" (350mm) I had to take it from rough to smooth using my drum sander. About a billion passes were required, but the end result was great. Sanding up through 200 with the ROS completed the stock prep, it was then oiled and at the end of the day a light coat of wax-free shellac was hand-applied and later "de-fuzed" with some 600 wet and dry. Tomorrow, I'll shoot a bunch of clear coats on it so I can install it as the top of the credenza. The color/tone will be close to that of the cherry desk I made her back in 1997 as my very first "real" woodworking project.
Yea, this isn't an exiting, complex, skill building project, but it included the basics and will please the "customer". It also celebrates a really nice piece of lumber that finally said "use me for this!"
Here are a few more photos to bore you further.
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