| Project by jayman7 | posted 295 days ago | 508 views | 1 time favorited | 10 comments |  |
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Hello! This is my first real project after seriously diving into this new hobby late last summer (a lil late posting it). Made from cherry. It utilized my first mortises and tenons, with biscuits to attach the bottom shelf. I wanted my first project to be a piece of furniture that I can actually use for something. My home office had my electronics (cable modem, wireless router, telephone, voip router) just sitting on the floor so I figured I can make something for them to sit on instead! I added a 45 deg chamfer along the bottom of the top and tapered the legs to give it some design features and for personal practice.
Finished with a washcoat of amber shellac, followed by GF georgian cherry gel stain, followed by GF brown mahogany gel stain, followed by 5 coats of wipe on minwax wipe on poly, wet sanded smooth, and a coat of breewax wax paste. I only went with staining because I had a had a decent amount of sapwood exposed (before I learned what sapwood was, lol) and also learned it didn’t darken over time. I think I will go for a simpler finishing process for future cherry projects to keep the wood as natural as possible and letting it age by itself, while working around the sapwood in my rough boards. Great learning experience overall.
10 comments so far
CharlieM1958
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posted 295 days ago
Very, very nice for your first major project!
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Bigbuck
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posted 295 days ago
Looks great, nice job especially for your fist major project
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sharad
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posted 295 days ago
If you are so good in your first project you will be a prize winner within a short time. Pl keep it up.
Sharad
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woodworm
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posted 295 days ago
Nice design. It has the strength, the beauty & accent!
Great work Jayman!
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Bob Costello
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posted 295 days ago
Beautifully done, graceful design . . . and a great opportunity to gets some new clamps I see!
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Dusty56
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posted 295 days ago
Gorgeous piece and finish . So which do you like better , the new Bessey style or the old ?
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3fingerpat
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posted 295 days ago
Nice project, excellent job on completing your first piece.
BTW, did you leave the tags on the clamps so you can take them back when you were done? ;o)
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CessnaPilotBarry
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posted 294 days ago
Great looking table, with a terrific looking finish!
Two thoughts…
- Be careful with amber shellac under the finish you used. Use the shellac, but make sure it’s dewaxed. Wax can cause hell under polyurethane and gel stains.
- The clamp tags… Did you return them? <g>
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jayman7
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posted 294 days ago
Thanks for the comments! I used a coat of dewaxed shellac before putting on the poly to ensure avoid compatibility issues. As for the tags on my clamps, they were the first parallel clamps that i bought so i was so excited to use them that i didn’t bother removing them yet! :D
ND2ELK
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posted 294 days ago
If this is your first real project, I can hardly wait to see what you can do in the furture. You did a beautiful job on this piece. I am impressed with the quality of your work.
Thanks for posting.
God Bless
tom
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