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Finished Mahogany Serving Tray

Project by Frank Boer posted 972 days ago 835 views 4 times favorited 25 comments Add to Favorites Watch

This is the finished mahogany serving tray I posted a ‘work in progress’ about earlier this month.
I’m very pleased with the result.
Check out the 4 min. movie I made about it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JQY82zd8E

- Frank Boer

-- Frank Boer, Holland


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MsDebbieP

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posted 972 days ago

yah.. that sure is beautiful.

the surface is like glass! gosh you must be so proud of this! Beautiful. VERY rich

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

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WayneC

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posted 972 days ago

Wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

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Jeff

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posted 972 days ago

Very, very nice, Frank! It is absolutely gorgeous and I love the extreme attention to detail in the execution. It was neet to see the usage of the paper template.

Thanks for the nod to LJ at the end of the movie!

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

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cheller

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posted 972 days ago

I love that the pattern is carried through to the bottom. Nice work.

-- Chelle http://artsgranddaughter.blogspot.com

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gizmodyne

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posted 972 days ago

Very cool! Repost of video.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

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scottb

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posted 972 days ago

WOW… all around great job!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

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Todd A. Clippinger

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posted 972 days ago

I really enjoyed the video and I love the piece.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

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Max

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posted 972 days ago

Very very nice piece.

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

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dennis mitchell

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Chip

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posted 972 days ago

Beautiful Frank. Wonderful attention to detail. Thanks a lot for sharing it. And thanks for the video giz.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

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Lou

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posted 971 days ago

great job!!! i love the star design in the middle!

-- "What one can make with good tools is limited only by one's talent" (lucius-hill@comcast.net)

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Karson

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posted 971 days ago

Great Frank. Thanks for the video.

-- 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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CharlieM1958

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posted 971 days ago

Beautiful! But will the finish survive being loaded down with a few pounds of boiled southern Louisiana crawfish?

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

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DocK16

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posted 961 days ago

Very very nice detail work, Very elegant, classy piece
DocK

-- DocK, WV

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Don

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posted 866 days ago

Exceptional piece – sorry that I missed it first time around.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

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mot

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posted 866 days ago

Just outstanding! I’m glad this came back around!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

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Lee A. Jesberger

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posted 684 days ago

Frank;

Really fine work.

Beautiful design as well.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

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rikkor

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posted 684 days ago

Man, I am glad this came out of the archives, or I would have missed it. Nice job!

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Frank Boer

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posted 656 days ago

My marquetry guidelines:

There’s nothing to it,... really just get a nice and strait ruler, a sharp normal utility-knife, scotch-tape , patience and a small hard sandingblock with 150 and 180 grain and start cutting, thats how I learned it…..

Guidelines:

- I generally use MDF as a work-surface because it has no grain and therefore the knife won’t try to ‘wonder off’.

- Never try to cut the veneer in one go, always make multiple lite strokes depending on the wood. , say 3 to 5 for maple, 3 to 4 for mahogany just don’t force the blade through, it will “search” and follow the grain of the wood and you’d never get a strait cut.(I use 0,6 mm / 0,024” veneer.)

- Always place the ruler on the part you’re gonna use not on the cut-away, that way you’ll automatically cut at a slide angle and get perfect (!!!) seamless fitting pieces.

- Don’t use a pencil or pen, just mark stuff lightly with you knife.
(I am 21 so I have no problem seeing the markings with a knife, but if you do just try to keep the lines as this as possible.)

- I use scotch-tape to keep the pieces together. After glue-up the tape is scraped of very carefully.

I hope anyone has any use for these tips, it really isn’t hard just start-of with some squares or something and get the feel for it, then try a compass-rose.(which is NOT hard to do.)

Feel free to ask me any questions, I’d love to help anyone who is interested
in this great, rewarding, ‘priding’ and fun way of woodworking.

“Go For It!”

- Frank Boer 21yrs, NL Dutch – professional yacht-interiorbuilder/crafter. (@ Royal Huisman Shipyard B.V)

More pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32533097@N00/2258570728/

-- Frank Boer, Holland

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jeanmarc

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posted 587 days ago

beautiful work

-- jeanmarc manosque france

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Kerry

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posted 582 days ago

Great work Frank. Really makes me want to get back at some veneering.

Kerry

-- Alberta, Canada

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trifern

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posted 532 days ago

Beautiful serving tray.

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

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Jason

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posted 520 days ago

That is really nice. I like the star on the bottom.

-- Jason

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ahock

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posted 133 days ago

Fantastic tray, I’ll step up to the plate with an inlay some day!

-- Finding satisfaction in creation

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a1Jim

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posted 133 days ago

fantastic

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

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