Lebanon Cedar Boards. Suggestions for projects please!
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I had a dig through my loft and found about 6 boards of Lebanon Cedar that have been dry stored for the last 40 years. I bought some to make the sides of harpsichords and spinets and still have these left.
Also several wide boards of Sapele mahogany.
They are all bandsawn, about 1/4″ thick, up to 8′ long and about 10″ wide. Obviously planed I will be lucky to get 3/16″ thickness, which makes them a little thin for box-making.
Any ideas for projects please? They smell great when planed!!
What about cutting them into strips and weaving them? You could weave both ways or just one. You could make plenty of stuff this way, though a laundry basket is what springs immediately to mind (assuming everyone in the house likes that characteristic odour). It wouldn’t really make the best use of the width though.
You could bend them into hat-box type things, round or irregular shapes. Not sure how these woods would respond to bending/steaming.
You could make dinner trays by sticking a couple of widths together and building a frame around the edge.
I don’t know much about musical instrument making, but if they were originally intended for harpsichords and spinets could you use them to make smaller instruments? Guitars, ukeleles and the like.
Or you could hold on to them for a while and use them for panels, or drawer bottoms, in a larger project.
Why the rush to use them? Keep them around for another ten years, I’m sure you’ll come across the perfect project!
Let us know what you do with them.
Matt
Southampton, UK
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