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My buddy (in real life), Eric sent me these plans a couple of months ago. I took a day “off” and decided to whip one out. I laid out my own dimensions from some scrap mahogany and went to town making my G&G finger joints. I wasn’t as accurate as I wanted, but I learned enough to make my pending sofa table project much better than if that had been my first shot. I can’t tell you what a kinesthetic delight it was to round over the edges of the finger joint by hand to give it that nice, random, hand-crafted look.
This was also my first time using real ebony plugs. It smells like fermenting wine. A tung oil finish and a few hundred bamboo skewers with the pointy ends nipped off and tucked cut-side-down into the box. The knives fit nicely, and there’s no wear and tear on the edges. This could also double as some kind of vase or pencil holder as needed.
I can’t wait to start on Darrell Peart’s Aurora sofa table now! Mahogany is so pleasant to work with.
-- You can't control the wind, but you can trim your sails
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Lisa Chan
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posted 38 days ago
It looks super fun.
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woodworm
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posted 38 days ago
Beautiful joinery.
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Todd Thomas
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posted 38 days ago
looks great good job…love the G&G style
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mtkate
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posted 38 days ago
What a great idea for a starter G and G project.
huff
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posted 38 days ago
very nice, great looking knife block. The ebony really sets it off.
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Kindlingmaker
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posted 38 days ago
Great design! I like the look of this alot, good job!
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a1Jim
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posted 38 days ago
cool idea
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CaptainSkully
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posted 38 days ago
I forgot to mention one boo boo that everybody needs to avoid when doing G&G. Don’t glue the finger joint. I know it sounds crazy, but if you make the fingers tight, the glue will squeeze out. If you back-bevel the chiseled edges, there’s no wood to glue to. Use screws to pull the assembly together and plug them. I did it all wrong, and there’s glue in the joints I can’t get out, and my assembly didn’t end up as tight as it should be.
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Loucarb
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posted 38 days ago
Well done. It looks like a fun project.
stefang
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posted 38 days ago
Nice. Oozes with the G&G look. God idea with the bamboos.
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Napaman
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posted 36 days ago
very cool…
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Budgie
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posted 28 days ago
that’s frigging awesome.
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DynaBlue
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posted 26 days ago
Nice holder and good warning. Now my wife is interested in one, as if I needed another project at this moment :D
I always attributed the smell of Baygon (a pesticide) to ebony, perhaps because I’ve never smelled fermenting wine.
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