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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
-- I can so I wood but why are my learning curves always circles
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bryano
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#1 posted 1891 days ago
Nice joinery skills. The wood you selected is beautiful. Welcome to LumberJocks.
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dennis mitchell
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#2 posted 1891 days ago
I like it. Interesting sides/slides.
GaryK
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#3 posted 1891 days ago
That is an excellent job! Very nice.
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tenontim
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#4 posted 1891 days ago
Very nice design and beautiful work.
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Scott Bryan
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#5 posted 1891 days ago
This is an excellent both in design and execution.
Thanks for sharing.
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Dan'um Style
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#6 posted 1891 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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#7 posted 1891 days ago
GREAT WORK!!
WELCOME TO LJ!!!
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mrtrim
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#8 posted 1891 days ago
wow ! thats awsome . exellent work ! welcome to l j
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#9 posted 1891 days ago
Spectacular looking box.
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#10 posted 1891 days ago
Beautiful cabinet diggrduggr! And by the way, welcome to your new home here in LJ.
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#11 posted 1891 days ago
looks great. nice to see something out of the ordinary.
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#12 posted 1891 days ago
stunning. the design and the lined drawers. Wow
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rikkor
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#13 posted 1890 days ago
Man, is that nice. Looks like you put a lot of work into it.
Douglas Krueger
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#14 posted 1890 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????
-- I can so I wood but why are my learning curves always circles
jockmike2
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#15 posted 1890 days ago
Beautiful grain just a great piece. mike
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