| Project by Douglas Krueger | posted 618 days ago | 749 views | 5 times favorited | 21 comments |  |
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After making the decision to get back into wood working again, this was one of my early projects and was my first experience with the Thailand Padoo species of wood. In the pile of wood I bought was one piece of lumber that was knotty and it had been set it aside as a ‘worthless’ discard. Because the shop has a problem with space, it was never far away and After seeing it one too many times, decided to try and work with it in an effort to capture the beauty of the knots and incorporate them into the design. The biggest knots were placed in the top 2 drawer faces
To try and balance the use of knots, they were also worked into other pieces of the project:
This was a plan that was borrowed from Jeff Greef and modified a bit both by design and by accident
www.jeffgreefwoodworking.com
All of the curved work and mortise/tenons were mostly done by hand along and an electric drill and were a ‘learn on the fly’ experience which inevitably increased the scrap pile.
The drawers were lined with some local Thai silk material fastened with silicone mastic. The overall dimensions are about 16×16x10” deep and the finish was my second attempt at sprayed urethane.
All in all it was a lot of fun to build and many lessons learned have become very useful on subsequent projects. Now I can not stop building things with Padoo (as witnessed on my project page), the color, grain and texture of this wood keeps surprising me with each new project.
Thanks for looking
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21 comments so far
bryano
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posted 618 days ago
Nice joinery skills. The wood you selected is beautiful. Welcome to LumberJocks.
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dennis mitchell
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posted 618 days ago
I like it. Interesting sides/slides.
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GaryK
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posted 618 days ago
That is an excellent job! Very nice.
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tenontim
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posted 618 days ago
Very nice design and beautiful work.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 618 days ago
This is an excellent both in design and execution.
Thanks for sharing.
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DAN
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posted 618 days ago
well thought out grain selection. skillfully balanced design. pretty color wood.
welcome to lumberjocks.
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alanealane
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posted 618 days ago
GREAT WORK!!
WELCOME TO LJ!!!
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mrtrim
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wow ! thats awsome . exellent work ! welcome to l j
cajunpen
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Spectacular looking box.
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Jojo
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Beautiful cabinet diggrduggr! And by the way, welcome to your new home here in LJ.
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motthunter
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looks great. nice to see something out of the ordinary.
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MsDebbieP
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posted 618 days ago
stunning. the design and the lined drawers. Wow
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rikkor
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posted 617 days ago
Man, is that nice. Looks like you put a lot of work into it.
Douglas Krueger
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posted 617 days ago
Thanks for all the kind comments, you are a right friendly bunch of guys. This piece did take a while but I am never in a hurry as I have found that that just compounds the already too numerous ‘ooooops’ and ‘oh $ht’s’. I have been exploring the website and have found a lot of useful info already. Back to work, now where did I put my board stretcher????
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jockmike2
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posted 617 days ago
Beautiful grain just a great piece. mike
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dustynewt
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posted 617 days ago
Fantastic joinery. Really beautiful chest.
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shaun
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this is gorgeous diggr, thanks for sharing it.
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trifern
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posted 483 days ago
Beautifully executed box of drawers with some gorgeous wood.
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scottb
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beautiful. missed this the first time around. great joinery, design and craftsmanship. Love it.
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Christopher
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This is gorgeous!
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lew
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Beautiful design and execution!
Good Luck in the contest.
Lew