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Here’s a nice little fireplace mantle we made a while back. It was built to add to the existing 3 piece marble surround.
Built using Mahogany plywood, and Birds Eye Maple veneer.
The columns were built with M.D.F. We glued up six layers of 3/4” , with brown builders paper in the center.
Then we turned a tapered round post. After sanding it smooth, we split the post in half at the paper line.
This gave us two half rounds, which we veneered with Birds Eye Maple. These were screwed from the back onto a piece of Mahogany plywood.
The flats of the column are Mahogany plywood pieces mitered to meet the wall on the outside, and a narrower piece to meet the marble, on the inside.
The mahogany crown molding is shop made on the table saw, and cleaned up with a cabinet scraper.
The top is Mahogany plywood, with an applied Mahogany molding.
Not a high budget job, but nice looking.
Lee
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Roger Strautman
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posted 853 days ago
Another very nice job. Simple but it did take some forethought.
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 853 days ago
Very nice Lee, the tapered columns are really attractive.
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posted 853 days ago
Thank you Roger,
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posted 853 days ago
Hi Dick,
Good to hear from you! Thanks for the nice comments!
I hope all is well is with your wife.
Lee
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 853 days ago
Thanks for your concern, Barb is home now, but has to take it easy. It’s going to be a long recovery process. She is on the drug Coumadin, & has to have her blood tested today, & also see her Doctor.
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Don
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posted 853 days ago
That’s real nice, Lee.
Interesting design perspective. I think my natural inclination would be to reverse those columns with the taper narrowing at the top. But what you’ve done looks much more interesting.
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posted 853 days ago
Dick,
Glad to here you have your wife back home. Since my wife just spent close to a week in the hospital, I know how that feels. (felt more like a month).
God speed on the recovery process.
Lee
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posted 853 days ago
Hey Don,
Interesting idea. Never gave that a thought.
Lee
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Karson
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posted 853 days ago
Great Fireplase Mantel Lee. I nice job.
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 853 days ago
I also hope, & pray that your wife is doing well.
My comment on the columns, I don’t want to start something with Don, but I vote for your way.
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posted 853 days ago
Hi Karson,
Thanks
Lee
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posted 853 days ago
Thank you Dick,
She’s still being tested, but so far, so good.
As for the mantle, I go with what feels right, but who knows, that might have looked good too. I just never considered it.
Lee
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Karson
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posted 853 days ago
In some of the designing of furniture they tell you to look at what looks right. and what feels comfortable with your eyes.
In nature most things are smaller at the top than they are at the bottom. (A Tree) and also things are smaller in the distance, but when we see something that has proportions different, we tend to remember them more. (Towering Rock)
Both are good design precepts as long as the eye is comfortable.
Good job you didn’t put one up and the other down.
Then you would have had our eyes going in circles LOL
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posted 853 days ago
an interesting discussion on design elements.
Beautiful mantle. It really ties in well with the surroundings.
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posted 853 days ago
Lee: Oh definitely going down…looks great this way…
Don…this must be a perspective thing since you are down under in australia, right? So the toilet water swishes out the wrong way too…how about your table legs? Down or up? Driving on the left side of the road?
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posted 853 days ago
Very eloquent fireplace.
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posted 853 days ago
Hi Karson,
Amen.
Lee
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posted 853 days ago
Hi Debbie;
My approach, while done automatically, meaning no consideration, follows in the lines of thought that table legs are thinner on the bottom.
Hence my columns.
Thanks Lee
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posted 853 days ago
Hi Matt,
Too Funny.
Lee
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posted 853 days ago
Os,
Thanks buddy,
Lee
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posted 852 days ago
Nice mantel. Santa would be happy to come down that chimney. jockmike
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posted 852 days ago
Thanks Mike,
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posted 852 days ago
Very nice mantle Lee. Gives me an idea for my son’s fireplace. Unfortunately he has a corner fireplace and the corner has stumped for a good idea. Your craftsmanship on all of your projects is outstanding.
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posted 851 days ago
Hello Bill,
Thank you for the kind words.
Your pens are exquisite! Great work.
Lee
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posted 596 days ago
lee i was cruiseing the mantel page this one caught my eye . i love the birdseye . enjoyed the disscusion on the legs also !
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posted 596 days ago
Hi Verne,
Thank You,
I’m a big fan birds eye as well. I have a stash of birds eye veneer I bought, lust because I couldn’t pass it up!
And mixed with darker woods, like the mahogany here, it really stands out.
Happy Easter;
Lee
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