| Project by Konquest | posted 42 days ago | 288 views | 0 times favorited | 3 comments |  |
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An old drawing from my grandparent’s house needed a little sprucing up. I had thin strips from my projects over the last 2 years so I made a sandwich of wood and threw together this frame last weekend. In order from outside in:
Andiroba (from headboard)
Padauk (from coffee table)
Curly Maple (coffee table)
Zebrawood (father-in-law’s shop scraps)
Cherry (from sideboard)
6 or 7 coats of aerosol shellac, sanded with p600 in between. Anyone could make something like this pretty easily, so my advice is “don’t throw those scraps away!”
-- "It's a good thing my woodworking is done afterhours so my 2 year old daughter can't hear the swearing."
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a1Jim
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posted 42 days ago
Nice nice nice
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
Alan
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posted 42 days ago
Wow thats very nice. Maybe you should describe it as made from 5 different kinds of carefully selected exotic woods.
-- Alan, Prince George
Konquest
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posted 42 days ago
Thanks for the kind words. I wanted to downplay the “carefully selected exotic” aspect and play up the “free” aspect of this project. I know woodworkers who throw away or burn thin scraps from rip cuts…not me.
-- "It's a good thing my woodworking is done afterhours so my 2 year old daughter can't hear the swearing."