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Re: Bombe Secretary (picture heavy) - janus frey - 05-29-2012 Yur getting annoyingly good wid dis woodworking thang. Re: Bombe Secretary (picture heavy) - Derek Cohen - 05-29-2012 Hi Peter The shaping came out fantastically. My compliments. The question is, with the shaping in mind, why not either veneer a cheaper secondary wood (such as Poplar or Pine), or laminate to shape? Both these methods are infinitely more sparing of the Walnut, and probably more stable as well. Regards from Perth Derek Re: Bombe Secretary (picture heavy) - Carl Grover - 05-29-2012 Looks great. Are you building this from plans or is it your own design? Re: Bombe Secretary (picture heavy) - Jim Pilsner - 05-29-2012 Carl Grover said: Hehe, you beat me to it, I was just about to ask the same thing. Also, how is it that you cut the shape on those panels? Do you have a bandsaw that with 23" capacity? Re: Bombe Secretary (picture heavy) - Peter Tremblay - 05-29-2012 Plans of a Bombe chest of drawers... the gallery/secretary is of my own plans. Edit to add: I also cut the shape using the dado stack on the table saw. I set the depth to crosscut the slabs and slowly worked the shape with each pass. I adjusted the stack for each cut so it took me about 6 hours to cut both slabs to shape. Re: Bombe Secretary (picture heavy) - Peter Tremblay - 05-29-2012 Derek Cohen said: I did it this way because this is the way that it was done by american craftsman back when this was popular. It is an attempt to keep this as much as a true "reproduction" piece as possible. It also vastly effects the final value of the piece when done this way. I have no plans to sell this. In fact it is the first thing that I have ever made for myself aside from shop "furniture". But if I ever did sell this it would be worth far more if it were done this way because then it is a true reproduction. Re: Bombe Secretary (picture heavy) - Peter Tremblay - 05-29-2012 K. L, McReynolds said: I've already picked the finish. I'm going with general finishes "seal a cell" and "arm a seal" I used it on my last project (the blanket chest that went up for auction) and it is wonderful. Re: Bombe Secretary (picture heavy) - Richard D. - 05-29-2012 Beautiful work Peter! I understand using solid slabs to make it an authentic reproduction but are the GF products you mentioned authentic as well? Wouldn't Shellac and wax be more appropriate? Re: Bombe Secretary (picture heavy) - Window Guy - 05-29-2012 packerguy® said: +1 [/blockquote] + 2 ....... oh this is going to be fun to follow, Peter "congratulations" on taking this on looking good so far. I can see Dave and his Wife defiantly took care of . Thanks for sharing and looking forward to a great read on coming. Steve Re: Bombe Secretary (picture heavy) - Peter Tremblay - 05-29-2012 Richard D. said: It would be more appropriate for an exact replica. But I'm going for a reproduction which means that I will "modernize" a few things. But, and I defer to Dave as the expert on this, reproductions today tend to emphasize wood choice and design faithfulness to the original. There is no one (that I'm aware of) that is making furniture to be used and still using just the old finishing techniques. I make the compromise in that I will use power tools to make this and I will use a modern finish. The design and the wood will be true to the period as best as I am able. |