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Hello! First project posting.
This is a lazy susan with a story. My parents were visiting this spring. My dad has been making a few different project using these diamonds. I told him I could use a lazy susan. It needed to be fairly large. I told him 30 inches across, maybe only 28 would work. He went home and got to work. More than 400 diamonds later, he sent me the result. It was a very pretty design, but only 24 inches across (he ran out of wood and was sure it was big enough). We used it for a while, but it needed to be bigger.
I cut off the rounded edges of the mahogany and put a relief on the back side. Then I added an MDF backer to extend about 3 inches on each side.
The existing border made a nice transition from the center pattern, so I came up with a diamond border to add. I used mahogany salvaged from the lazy susan and a couple pieces of oak and walnut from the wood pile. My contribution added another 100+ diamonds.
We now have a 30” lazy susan, but the part I like is that my dad and I got to build it “together” – even though we live 2000 miles apart!
-- Impatience is Expensive
23 comments so far
dustyal
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posted 21 days ago
beautiful work and fantastic story. You’ll enjoy this for a lifetime.
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a1Jim
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posted 21 days ago
Welcome to LJs This ia amazing work beautiful this falls in a group of what we call lazy larry’s around here you will find out why in short order. Outstanding workmanship look forward to more projects and you input.
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
Karson
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posted 21 days ago
A fantastic lazy susan. Congrats on the two person build.
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Bob Kollman
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posted 21 days ago
Very much excellent!!! Beautiful colors, I wish my first posting would have been this good…
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TopamaxSurvivor
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posted 21 days ago
Welcome aboard!! Nice work, WOW!
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huff
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posted 21 days ago
Awesome work from both your father and you. Welcome to LJ’s and thanks for sharing your project and the story behind it. Super job.
-- John @ Myrtle Beach
Autumn
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posted 21 days ago
What an awesome piece of work. Thanks for posting.
Dale J Struhar Sr
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posted 21 days ago
Wow absolutely beautiful. Nice work to the both of you.
-- Dale, Ohio
degoose
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posted 21 days ago
Cool looking bit of work.
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nmkidd
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posted 21 days ago
Really nifty!! Awesome that you and your father worked on this at different times and places….together.
Welcome to LJs.
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dustbunny
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posted 20 days ago
Gorgeous !!
I like the addition.
It really adds a nice touch to the whole piece.
Lisa
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stefang
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posted 20 days ago
Wow what a beautiful project and so well done too, by you and your father. A great start. Welcome to LJ. I hope you will get your dad to join too if he isn’t already a member. Looking forward to your future projects.
-- Mike, American in Norway
ellen35
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posted 20 days ago
WOW! That is one nice board! i love the contrasting wood.
It looks like a time consuming but worthwhile endeavor… especially when shared with your dad.
Ellen
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douglbe
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posted 20 days ago
What patience it takes to make something that beautiful. Welcome aboard.
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deucefour
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posted 20 days ago
Welcome to lumberjocks, nice work, and cool story.
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Gary
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posted 20 days ago
Hi; welcome to LJ’s.
That’s a lot of work BUT the end result is well worth it!!!
-- Gary, Florida
MsDebbieP
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posted 20 days ago
pass the tissues!!
I love stories like this!!
AND I “LOVE” this lazy susan… WOW .. 30” WOW… Beautiful WOW….
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sras
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posted 20 days ago
Wow! Thanks for all the compliments. I’m not sure how to reply other than adding a new comment.
We are very pleased with how it turned out. I still need to add a few more coats of finish before we can start using it.
To those of you who liked the story – thanks, that is the best part of this project for me.
I sent the link to my dad. He was really impressed with the final result and all the kind words. Stefang – I asked my dad to join but he wasn’t too sure he would do that. He makes lots of wooden scale models, scroll saw projects and carvings. He is not much of a computer guy though. That may have to wait until I am visiting.
About the project looking time consuming, yeah it was but you will learn that I am drawn to complex projects like a moth to a flame. Makes it difficult for me to repeat a project – the first one usually cures me of wanting to do another!
Thanks again for the feedback – this website is going to be a time amangement issue for me!
-- Impatience is Expensive
Andy
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posted 18 days ago
Stunning design and great story.I look forward to seeing more from you.
-- " If I can make it,so can you" Andy in Oregon
Scott Bryan
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posted 18 days ago
Wow, this is a beautiful piece. I can see where building something like this and being impatient would not go together at all. This is a stunning project.
And thanks for the story behind it as well. I have often said that the story behind a piece is often as important as the construction itself. And the story behind this lazy susan (or lazy larry) confirms this.
I enjoyed seeing this. Thanks for sharing.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
Profenceworks
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posted 12 days ago
This is so cool!
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Desertdog
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posted 11 days ago
Good job Steve, you were right it would take a large table but if you have the family over it would work great.
Dean
sras
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posted 11 days ago
It is probably worth pointing out that this does go on a 60” round table. Also, the 30” measurement is across the flats of the octagon. The distance across the points is more like 32 1/2”. I don’t think we could use one any bigger. I’m guessing that a 30” round would be about right – that leaves 15 inches on the table. We have been uisng for a week or so now and really like it!
-- Impatience is Expensive