Mission style nightstand. This one is all quarter sawn red oak. The panels, shelf, and drawer fronts were resawn & bookmatched from rough 8/4 stock. The inlay is canary wood. The drawers are solid red oak with brass pinned rabbets. Since there were just two small drawers(and a recently acquired verritas detail rabbet plane) i did all the joinery by hand. The drawer bottoms are solid 1/4 quartersawn red oak beveled to fit the 1/8 groove. The shelf floats in a shallow dado & dry loose M&T’s. The top was given 15-20 coats of brushed on polyurethane sanded to a mirror finish. The rest was given a few coats of hand rubbed poly rubbed out with steel wool & a topcoat of wax. PM if you’d like the sketchup doc.
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Bradford
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#1 posted 953 days ago
Wow, thats beautiful, how did you keep the inlay from changing color?
-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford. Wood-a-holics unanimous president
yokel
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#2 posted 953 days ago
I tapedit off with 3m’s new advanced edge block blue painters tape. It worked better than anticipated, virtually no bleed.
Mork
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#3 posted 943 days ago
Incredible work… I love the Mission style furniture!
Mork
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#4 posted 943 days ago
Also like the use of dowels for the drawer joints.
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#5 posted 943 days ago
Absolutely beautiful.
Great design. Great build. Beautiful finish. Exceptional choice of woods.
I—literally—raise a glass to you :-)
-- -- Neil
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