An Armoire…

[Jim Becker]

That's a beautiful and functional piece!

[Mike Wilkins]

That is a beautiful piece. Proportions are nice also.
Curious question: what type of finish did you use.

[Christian Hawkshaw]

That’s a piece to be proud of!

That's a beautiful and functional piece!

That is a beautiful piece. Proportions are nice also.
Curious question: what type of finish did you use.

Thanks all.


This is the finish schedule:

1. Sand to 180 (I could have gone much higher on the pomelle to enhance the chatoyance of the figure, but I did not want to sand through the veneer).
2. Ammonia fume.
3. Let air out for a week.
4. Door frames only: Applied “Fumed” Rubio Monocoat tannin reactive pretreatment.
5. Apply boiled linseed oil.
6. 3 wipe-on coats of Arm-R-Seal gloss. Sand with 400 between coats 2 and 3.
7. 2 wipe-on coats of Arm-R-Seal satin. Sand with 400 between coats.

For the shelves and drawers:

1. Sand to 180.
2. Ammonia fume.
3. Let air out for a week.
4. Apply boiled linseed oil.
5. 2 coats of Arm-R-Seal gloss applied with a foam brush, sand with 400 between coats. For the drawers, only the fronts got 2 coats, the rest only got 1 coat.
6. 1 sprayed coat of General Finishes High Performance Water Based Topcoat satin. I did this to reduce the gassing off of the oil-based finish inside the armoire.

The fuming and linseed oil helped bring the color of the various pieces to a more consistent color. Not as good as dying, but pretty good. I fumed samples of all of the pieces and went through the finish process to make sure it would look OK before fuming the armoire. The wood used for the door frame was much lighter than the rest of the piece. I have experimented with Rubio Monocoat tannin reactive pretreatments and found that “Fumed” is close to actual ammonia fuming. I also found that using this product after ammonia fuming will further darken the wood. So, for the door frames, I also applied the “Fumed” Rubio Monocoat tannin reactive pretreatment.

I will add some picutures later to illustrate the above.

[John TenEyck]

Oh that is a wonderful piece with some awesome looking wood. The design is restrained but elegant, with great proportions.

Take a well-deserved bow. And get the Bengay because I bet that thing was heavy to move.

John

[Christian Hawkshaw]

Oh that is a wonderful piece with some awesome looking wood. The design is restrained but elegant, with great proportions.

Take a well-deserved bow. And get the Bengay because I bet that thing was heavy to move.

John

Thanks. I can’t claim full credit for the design. I was inspired by Holzer Ames Furniture's Sapele Armoire. I mainly borrowed the eyebrow door frame design and using pomelle panels.

https://www.holzerames.com/robert-hank-holzer-1

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...e+Armoire+.jpg

[Mark Rainey]

Christian, well done! I like large pieces - attractive and functional.

[Andrew Hughes]

Excellent looking piece. I also like the color .
Thanks for sharing with us

[Christian Hawkshaw]

Christian, well done! I like large pieces - attractive and functional.

Excellent looking piece. I also like the color .
Thanks for sharing with us

Thanks Mark and Andrew

[Christian Hawkshaw]

Mods, you can delete this post if you want...I could not revome the attached thumbnails so I could upload the fixed pictures...so I reposted in another entry.

[Christian Hawkshaw]

Here is the some of the pics during finishing steps up through the boiled linseed oil…
Before fuming:

finishing_before_fuming.jpg

Fuming:

finishing_fuming.jpg

After fuming:

finishing_after_fuming.jpg


finishing_after_fuming2.jpg

Door after ammonia fuming with light door frame:

finishing_light_door_frame.jpg

Door frame after rubio tannin reactive pretreatment:

finishing_after_rubio.jpg

The above pic makes the rubio treatment look much darker than it is...here is another pic that is more accurate:

finishing_after_rubio2.jpg


After boiled linseed oil (I did not get a pic of the door at this stage):

finising_after_BLO.jpg