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Room Furniture Series. #6: well we're back on track

Blog entry by teenagewoodworker posted 392 days ago 396 reads 0 times favorited 8 comments Add to Favorites Watch
« Part 5: update Part 6 of Room Furniture Series. series Part 7: an update »

its been a long time since i posted about the armoire and dresser that i have been commissioned to build.we have been looking all over for good walnut and have not really been able to find any. upon contacting the specialty dealers we found that they were way out of our price range. so after my recent success in dying the poplar we are thinking that we are just going to settle for poplar and some good finishing techniques. won’t take away anything from the piece. i’m gonna have to get creative but i think that it will work out in the end! so in the next couple of weeks i should have the lumber and we’ll take it from there.


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Beginningwoodworker

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posted 392 days ago

That might be the way to go.

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Douglas Bordner

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posted 392 days ago

Denny, if you haven’t ordered the poplar yet, you might try a harder wood that will take stain and stay in your price range. I’m not sure where you are from, but depending on your locale might be able to get birch, butternut, ash or hickory at reasonable prices. Just my 2ยข.

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thetimberkid

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posted 392 days ago

Thanks for the update!

Callum

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teenagewoodworker

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posted 391 days ago

ya we can get ash and hickory at reasonable prices. but i can get a pretty good finish on poplar with the spray guns and everything and we can get it for about 2 bucks a bf. the wide stuff too up to 16”.

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darryl

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posted 391 days ago

walnut runs about $6 a board foot over here… a little pricey for my wallet these days.
I can understand have to find alternatives.
you seem to have a good woodworker’s head already, so I’m sure your project will come out great.

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Lee A. Jesberger

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posted 390 days ago

Hi Dennis;

After seeing your last finishing job, I think you’ll do just fine.

For the future you might want to keep i mind as Douglas mentioned, Butternut it is a great substitute for walnut, due to the grain similarities. I’m not sure of the price of it though.

Lee

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teenagewoodworker

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posted 390 days ago

i think i will look at butternut. not sure of the price.

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dennis mitchell

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posted 352 days ago

I’d even go Soft Maple before I go with the Poplar.

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