05-28-2012, 08:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-16-2018, 09:50 PM by Peter Tremblay.)
Hello all,
It was not too long ago that I realized that I wanted to tackle my personal "mount everest" as a woodworker. I felt and still feel that now is the perfect time to challenge myself to the hardest project that I can think of. It just so happens that it is also a project that I really have wanted to make for myself since I first saw its graceful and alluring curves.
So this past week I started making myself a Bombe Secretary. I am using air dried black walnut and popular as a secondary wood.
This 12/4 thick 23" wide and about 52" long slab...
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and these (similar sizes) will be the case sides, the serpentine drawer fronts, and the four boston style ball and claw feet.
that caused so much saw dust and tears... (it was emotionally difficult to take a huge slab of such beauty and turn most of it into dust. I ended up with about 150 gallons of dust from all the milling of these case sides and a fair bit of other 8/4, 5/4 and 4/4 walnut)
They wanted to bow so I clamped them to stop the cupping.
I cut the DTs for the bottom and I'm almost done with the DTs for the top (all done by hand).
I'll post pictures of that when they are together.
I started carving the feet
<img src="/ssl_proxy.php?
That is going to take me the most time. It is hard and I think the first one that I've started will be a "practice" foot. But I have enough cuttoffs from the slabs to get another one or two quarter saw 3"x"3"x7" block.
As the week went on I stopped taking pictures but I will once I get to work in my shop here in CT. I did this when I was away on vacation. This is what I do to relax.
My hope is that in two years I'll have this done. [img]/ssl_proxy.php?url=/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowyes.gif" />
I also hope to keep this thread going with regular updates. I do think I'll finally start a woodworking blog to record my progress as well.
Enjoy... I know that I will.
Oh and BTW it seems that one of the pictures gives away where I was on vacation
My compliments to Dave's wife. She did her best to fatten me up with cookies, rice crispy treats, and meals like this
Not only did Dave let me use all of his tools, teach me new things constantly, he even let me put bluegrass music on the satellite radio in the shop... he and his wife were very good to me
It was not too long ago that I realized that I wanted to tackle my personal "mount everest" as a woodworker. I felt and still feel that now is the perfect time to challenge myself to the hardest project that I can think of. It just so happens that it is also a project that I really have wanted to make for myself since I first saw its graceful and alluring curves.
So this past week I started making myself a Bombe Secretary. I am using air dried black walnut and popular as a secondary wood.
This 12/4 thick 23" wide and about 52" long slab...
<img src="/ssl_proxy.php?
and these (similar sizes) will be the case sides, the serpentine drawer fronts, and the four boston style ball and claw feet.
that caused so much saw dust and tears... (it was emotionally difficult to take a huge slab of such beauty and turn most of it into dust. I ended up with about 150 gallons of dust from all the milling of these case sides and a fair bit of other 8/4, 5/4 and 4/4 walnut)
They wanted to bow so I clamped them to stop the cupping.
I cut the DTs for the bottom and I'm almost done with the DTs for the top (all done by hand).
I'll post pictures of that when they are together.
I started carving the feet
<img src="/ssl_proxy.php?
That is going to take me the most time. It is hard and I think the first one that I've started will be a "practice" foot. But I have enough cuttoffs from the slabs to get another one or two quarter saw 3"x"3"x7" block.
As the week went on I stopped taking pictures but I will once I get to work in my shop here in CT. I did this when I was away on vacation. This is what I do to relax.
My hope is that in two years I'll have this done. [img]/ssl_proxy.php?url=/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowyes.gif" />
I also hope to keep this thread going with regular updates. I do think I'll finally start a woodworking blog to record my progress as well.
Enjoy... I know that I will.
Oh and BTW it seems that one of the pictures gives away where I was on vacation
My compliments to Dave's wife. She did her best to fatten me up with cookies, rice crispy treats, and meals like this
Not only did Dave let me use all of his tools, teach me new things constantly, he even let me put bluegrass music on the satellite radio in the shop... he and his wife were very good to me
