11-12-2018, 04:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-12-2018, 07:46 PM by matthewstimp.)
Hi everyone,
It has been a while since I have posted in the Woodworking Forum. My shop went into storage about 13 years ago when I went to graduate school, and it has just been dusted off in the past 6 months. It is good to be making sawdust again.
I'm in the process of building a built-in book case in our home office; the bottom will be cabinets and then bookshelves above the cabinets. It runs the length of one wall, and I am at the point where I need to be thinking about a top for the cabinet portion. I want to do a walnut top, and the dimensions will be approximately 136" long and 14" wide. I do not have a source for walnut that length (I suspect it would be nearly impossible to find unless you had someone saw it specifically for this purpose), so I will have to glue up shorter pieces.
With all that said, I am interested in the collective's thoughts on an approach.
1. First question, would you use solid walnut or plywood?
2. If solid walnut, how would you approach the glue up?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts...it is good to be posting in this forum again!
Matt
It has been a while since I have posted in the Woodworking Forum. My shop went into storage about 13 years ago when I went to graduate school, and it has just been dusted off in the past 6 months. It is good to be making sawdust again.
I'm in the process of building a built-in book case in our home office; the bottom will be cabinets and then bookshelves above the cabinets. It runs the length of one wall, and I am at the point where I need to be thinking about a top for the cabinet portion. I want to do a walnut top, and the dimensions will be approximately 136" long and 14" wide. I do not have a source for walnut that length (I suspect it would be nearly impossible to find unless you had someone saw it specifically for this purpose), so I will have to glue up shorter pieces.
With all that said, I am interested in the collective's thoughts on an approach.
1. First question, would you use solid walnut or plywood?
2. If solid walnut, how would you approach the glue up?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts...it is good to be posting in this forum again!
Matt