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walnut and quilted maple tray

Project by Joey posted 708 days ago 727 views 5 times favorited 21 comments Add to Favorites Watch

just finished this tray today. walnut frame with a veneered quilted maple. finished with a blend of tung oil/boiled linseed oil/poly (6 coats). I made for a christmas gift for some dear friends of my wife and mine. Let me know what ya’ll think.
bty made matching spatula’s out of the scrap wood. never had thought of that before until friday night while playing dirty santa at a party, someone brought a handmade spatula that they had bought. Everybody went nuts over it. Got up Saturday and cranked out 9 out of scrap walnut and cherry and by that afternoon had sold 5 for $10 apiece. Live and learn **An update—- I think because of the cold and humid weather this week, the tung oil didn’t dry right and was a little rough after the 6th coat. So I tried something new and rubbed down the surface with 0000 steel wool and rub on a coat of paste wax. Had heard of this but never tried it. Wow did it really bring out the grain of the wood and the figure in the maple really ripples now. I’m going to do it this way from now on.

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com


21 comments so far

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schwingding

122 posts in 718 days


posted 708 days ago

WOW! That is unbelievable wood and you chose the perfect way to display it!! Fantastic.

-- Just another woodworker

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Thos. Angle

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posted 708 days ago

Very well done

-- Thos. Angle

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Russel

2054 posts in 832 days


posted 708 days ago

Quite attractive. I really like the contrast.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

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mrtrim

1698 posts in 773 days


posted 708 days ago

great work . that is an exceptional piece of maple ! well done

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USCJeff

899 posts in 961 days


posted 708 days ago

Not to take away from the tray (love the veneer), but I’d be interested in seeing the spatula’s as well. I too have never thought of making one, but I can see the potential appeal.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

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lyle

7 posts in 708 days


posted 708 days ago

Thats a great project. the maple is superb.

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cajunpen

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posted 708 days ago

Very nice – I like the quilted maple and of course walnut always looks good. One of these days I will get around to trying to veneering something.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

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Dorje

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posted 708 days ago

Beautiful tray!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

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Karson

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posted 708 days ago

Great veneering. A beautiful tray.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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snowdog

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posted 707 days ago

$10 dang that sounds way to cheap for such a nice piece of work.

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

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Joey

259 posts in 708 days


posted 707 days ago

it’s scrap wood and i made 3 in an hour using a bandsaw and oscillating sander. spatula’s that is

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com

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TreeBones

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posted 707 days ago

Very beautiful, love that wood.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.biz/concrete/

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TomFran

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posted 707 days ago

This is a very nice tray! Nice work.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

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CharlieM1958

7608 posts in 1111 days


posted 707 days ago

Fantastic wood, and you did a great job putting it together!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

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cronk

31 posts in 1015 days


posted 707 days ago

that is about the pretty piece of quilted maple as I’ve seen. the wood combination is truly super. you really did a wonderful job of finishing the tray.

-- cronk, oregon

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MsDebbieP

14156 posts in 1053 days


posted 706 days ago

awesome.
do we get to see the spatulas?

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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rikkor

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posted 706 days ago

Geez Louise that is awsome grain on (in) the maple. It’ll be a shame to put anything in it.

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Joey

259 posts in 708 days


posted 706 days ago

i’ve got the spatulas posted

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com

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Dusty56

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posted 527 days ago

STUNNING GRAIN and AWESOME CRAFTSMANSHIP !!!

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

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matt garcia

716 posts in 565 days


posted 391 days ago

Just beautiful!!!

-- Matt, Houston Texas

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mmh

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posted 334 days ago

I LOVE the wood! I love the scent of quilted maple behind a man’s ears . . .

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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