| Project by SawDustnSplinters | posted 263 days ago | 635 views | 4 times favorited | 21 comments | ![]() |
This is my first piece of a current project to design a complete bedroom set of Spalted Pecan, after researching traditional dresser construction I decided I wanted the face frame components to be thicker and used 2” wide face frame components. Also I decided to make the sides of solid Pecan, this makes the whole peice very sturdy and solid. I left the natural edge to the font of the dresser top to give it a rustic look. I finished it with Tung Oil so it would not amber the natural color.
-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com
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21 comments so far
CedarFreakCarl
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posted 263 days ago
Beautiful! I really like the style….......
-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC
mrtrim
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posted 263 days ago
looks good sawdust
gene
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posted 263 days ago
Very nice chest. Nice clean lines. beautiful wood.
God bless
-- Gene, a Christian in Virginia
Max
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posted 263 days ago
Very nice. Beautiful wood, nice grain.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
CharlieM1958
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posted 263 days ago
Great design for using the spalted lumber!
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
YorkshireStewart
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posted 263 days ago
Exactly what I like – natural edges & wood with a story to tell. That top especially looks amazing. Beautiful!
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GaryK
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posted 263 days ago
Pretty nice!
-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.
leonmcd
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posted 263 days ago
I like it a lot. Beautiful wood and nice clean design. Excellent job!
-- Leon -- Houston, TX - " I create all my own designs and it looks like it "
RobS
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posted 263 days ago
Nice Work..
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hap
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posted 263 days ago
excellent job.
-- hap, gunbarrel city tx.
Blake
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posted 263 days ago
Pecan is one of my favorite woods. Beautiful job of letting the wood do the talking.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 263 days ago
thanks for sharing. I haven’t seen any pecan furniture before and really like the looks of the wood. I think you did an excellent job on the piece.
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Chris
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posted 263 days ago
Very nice work…. It’s the first time I have seen Pecan furniture as well. I like all of the color and grain pattern changes; it makes for a very interesting piece of furniture.
-- Chris
TomK
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posted 262 days ago
Very nice looking piece!
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rikkor
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Boy, talk about some great grain patterns.
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miles125
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posted 262 days ago
Great looking dresser. Is this some wood you cut and dried yourself?
-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""
SawDustnSplinters
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posted 262 days ago
Thanx for the kind words everyone. Yes Miles this is pecan I cut myself. It is best to cut the slabs no less then 1.5 inches as all pecan and hickories will cup and curl alot in the drying process so you want to have plenty of thickness for planing. Kiln drying is best and will give you workable stock sooner but you can air dry for about a year. In order to get the spalting you have to let the log set for about a year and then cut it at the right time. Most all woods will spalt, Maple, Sycamore, White Oak, Pecan, etc… but some woods better then others. The spalting is a process of decomposition where opposing colonies of microbes draw their boundaries so to speak in the fine black lines that look similar to a china ink drawing. Some of the patterns are quite interesting and sometimes look like an artist actually drew the lines.
-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com
Dana
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posted 250 days ago
Absolutely beautiful. This would go great in a cabin also :)
Not to change the subject I was at sawmill a couple of weeks and they had small slices of cypress wood,...a big stack of them,....I asked the owner if they were for sale he told me no they were going to a customer that had ordered them to put down as flooring in a 2 million dollar log home. WoW was my response,....but I bet it will be beautiful when it is completed. Just thought I would share. It sure was a great idea.
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Beginningwoodworker
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posted 141 days ago
Thats a nice dresser.
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runngt
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posted 141 days ago
Now that is my style! Looks great! Also answered my next question “what is spalted”. great post!
runngt
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darryl
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posted 141 days ago
what a wild look in that spalted pecan. that wood looks gorgeous!
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