Jatoba Cabinet

Looks like a pretty true copy. And what a find to get pallet wood like that!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Very nice! It looks like it could also be used as a bar. You did well in your adaptation!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

it is so beautiful.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

well done.

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The use of scrap wood. I love it. Nice job

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota

Very nice cabinet Bill, I just wish the company I work for would get pallet’s made of Jatoba, just plain old oak that I sometimes use for firewood. Thanks for posting

-- Paul Sayre Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)

Hi could you explain whats a jatoba?Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Jatoba is a wood from Brazil also called Brazilian cherry.

Jatoba is beautiful, and I wish and pray that I’ll stumble upon a stack of pallets like that… Nice job on the cabinet.

Regards, JM

-- Jarrod, Taos, NM http://jzmurphree.wordpress.com/

This is a really nice piece, Bill. Jatoba is such a gorgeous wood that it is almost sacrilegious to use it simply for pallets. But you did a wonderful job of salvaging the wood and transforming it into a gorgeous piece of furniture. It is a beautiful wood to work with but it is hard on sawblades and chisels.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Bill-
The cabinet is really nice. It does have a mexican flare.
Did you do all the carving?
What finish did you apply ?

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