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Arts and Crafts Mantel

Project by WoodRivWW posted 597 days ago 559 views 9 times favorited 21 comments Add to Favorites Watch

The fireplace tile and mantel are finally completed. The fireplace is on the opposite wall from the room divider in my first project post. I again used quarter-sawn red oak and the same finishing technique described in the first project. I included a before photo showing the oakley stone veneer that came with the house. As you might imagine, the demo was a major part of this project.

-- Hailey, ID


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GaryK

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posted 597 days ago

Great looking mantle. I like the symmerty.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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tenontim

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posted 597 days ago

Beautiful job. I really like the tile work. Very “authentic”

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

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grovemadman

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posted 597 days ago

Yes it is a significant improvement over the former and a job well done I might add. I like the contrast between the tile and the color of the finish. They compliment each other very much. The screen adds the finishing touch. I think everything fits together perfect!

-- --Chuck

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Grant Davis

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posted 597 days ago

That looks awesome.

-- Grant...."GO BUCKEYES"

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blackcherry

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posted 597 days ago

All that missing is a fire the wife and a bottle of wine…well done Blkcherry

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ND2ELK

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posted 597 days ago

I really like the mantle. You did a beautiful job on this piece. Thank you for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

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Thuan

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posted 597 days ago

The greatest part is that I didn’t realized it was covering the existing one, that’s a well executed job.

-- Thuan

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DAN

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posted 597 days ago

excellent piece of work

welcome to lumberjocks

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

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netized

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posted 597 days ago

A beautiful job- very faithful to the arts & crafts style. That kind of sweat equity will really pay off! I never see quarter-sawn red oak around here- just the white oak. Did you special order it?

-- Jeff, Santa Fe

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mrtrim

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posted 597 days ago

wow , the improvement goes beyond huge ! great looking mantle

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Doug S.

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posted 597 days ago

I’m not a big A&C fan but I love the mantle. It looks great.

-- Use the fence Luke

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VADOC

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posted 597 days ago

Good choice for red oak, how is the “grille insert” made, is it scroll sawed from a pattern and is it oak also?
Thanks
Michael

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motthunter

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posted 596 days ago

Looks great. I like the scroll saw work on the center insert.

-- making sawdust....

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jcees

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posted 596 days ago

Much improved! Wowsa, that puppy needed replacing and you did a fine job in gettin’ er done!

always,
J.C.

-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

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trifern

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posted 596 days ago

Classic and beautiful. Great job.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

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WoodRivWW

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posted 596 days ago

Thanks to all for the wonderful comments. I was lucky enough to find a woodworker’s “dream wood store” in Boise, ID. The place is called High Desert Hardwoods and it’s basically a big warehouse filled with stacks of rough sawn hard wood planks, both domestic and exotic. It’s run by some great folks that clearly love woodworking. They let you dig through the piles, they’ll cut stuff to rough length, anything you want. That’s where I found the quarter-sawn red oak.

I’d like to take responsibility for scroll sawing the detail on the grille insert, but it’s actually a cast aluminum grille from Reggio Register, a company out of Boston, I believe. The fireplace was retro fitted in the 60’s (I believe) with a “heatilator” style passive convective heating system. There’s a series of tubes above the fire box that connect to the front grille. When heated by a fire, the air in the tubes flows up and out the grille. Room air is then drawn into the system from vents on the sides.

-- Hailey, ID

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dennis mitchell

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posted 596 days ago

Beautiful job! It just screams quality.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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Scott Bryan

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posted 596 days ago

That is a wonderful mantle. I really like the design and construction of it as well. I may have to borrow some ideas from this if you do not mind. I promised one to my wife for Christmas several years ago and I hear about it every year. You would think that she’d have forgotten about it by now?

thanks for the post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

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jeanmarc

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posted 475 days ago

excellent piece of work

-- jeanmarc manosque france

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Todd Thomas

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posted 305 days ago

great looking mantel…....good craftsmanship…looks great

-- Todd, Oak Ridge, TN, Hello my name is Todd and I'm a Toolholic, I bought my last tool 10 days, no 4 days, oh heck I bought a tool on the way here! †

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Pabs

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posted 125 days ago

real nice!

I love quarter-sawn oak..can’t stand oak otherwise but when it’s quarter-sawn it seems to become a different wood! gorgeous!

great job on the mantle!

-- Pabs

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