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I’ll try this again! Side table, mage from curly maple, dyed with honey amber and mahogany brown. I tried a French polish. I need practice, I’m still pleased with it.
Also, almost finished with a cherry mantel clock. The clock face I’m actually using, in the finished clock, will be a tad smaller. I will finish it with shellac as well.. Lots of nooks and crannies to navigate the finish with, hope it turns out well.. I’ve offered a good brush for shellac finally, so hope it helps with the finishing process..Lastly is an oak writing desk, for my son. I just stated so it’s a pile of lumber right now.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.15 September 2014 at 12:12 am #84980Damn nice work all around Dan. You’ve been, and will continue to be, busy. The table is quite lovely with the figured grain of the curly maple. I’m sure the writing desk will follow suit. Thanks for sharing with us.
15 September 2014 at 12:12 am #84981Your projects look great it would be nice if you rotated them 90°ccw. Your dovetails look excellent and I like the mantle clock, it seems from this angle that the 12 oclock seems to be partly covered.
Thanks! They look good in pictures! I did a second look and will work on the finish of the base of the table this week, I think they need a little more attention. Sorry about the pictures, I uploaded from my phone and they rotated 90° and I couldn’t tell you why. The clock face I will use when the clock is finished is about a half an inch smaller in diameter, so the numbers won’t be blocked by the molding. Surprising, I cut those miters by hand and shot them to fit darn near perfectly!
Thanks for looking!
15 September 2014 at 12:27 am #84983Good on you practice with persistant is a good formula for success, I’ve started to learn carving with Mary May I bought about 9 chisels so far and still need to get another 3 more. Hopefully I won’t need anymore as the ones I got set me back $400 but man it will be cool to know how to carve.
So, the figured lumber, I think, turned out well. However, it was difficult to work with. Planing would cause tear out quickly, so I scraped and scraped and scraped, until the scraper was to hot to touch and used a different scraper to scrape. My hands and forearms hurt from scraping so much, then I sanded at 120 to ensure the surface was ready to dye and inside the curl. Then I agonized over finishing it, to dye or to just apply a varnish. I decided to dye it with a water based dye, honey amber. It turned out to yellow at first, then I applied brown mahogany dye, and it looked better, then I sanded it back to wheremost of the dye was sanded off, except where the curl was and then dyed it again. Originaly, I was going to use a poly urethane as the to coat, but changed my mind to use shellac and try my hand at a French polish. I found an artisan, like Paul Sellars, on YouTube who showed how to do a French polish, the English polisher. He demystified the processes for me and I gave it a go. I think from now on, unless another application warrants a stronger finish, I will apply a French polish to my projects.
Greg, it’s good to keep busy!!!
15 September 2014 at 3:01 am #85150Wow french polish to all your projects? I wouldn’t recommend it everything has it’s place and you apply finish to suit the project. There never is a one stop finish to every project and the one thing about finishes what looks aappealing to you may not appeal to someone else but then again that’s life aint it.
I would suggest you learn how to apply other finishes as well I know it’s a steep learning curve and will cost you a bucket load but once you know how each finish looks then you can make an educated guess on what type of finish you can apply to your projects but I would not recommend you just applying one type to all.
As for planing figured timber I would recommend you add a high angle frog to your plane you do not need to change the secondary bevel at all. I would recommend using a 35° secondary bevel for all of your planes, unless it is a low angle plane that you want a very high angle on and then I would sharpen at 50° for a 62° effective cutting angle.
Planing is always better than scraping you should also look at getting a dedicated cabinet scraper or one of those Lie Nielson’s large scraping plane which is based on the Stanley no.112
I actually scored an old Stanley 112 off of fleabay after I scraped this table top. I just need to do a little restoring and it should be good to go. I also have a high angle ECE Primus smoothing plane, but was still getting tear out. Scraping was easier. I still have enough of this lumber to make a shaker clock to match this side table, so I will have to put those tools to work.
As for the finish, applying the shellac this way seemed very simple, I realize this process is hard to master, but so far I like it. The other thing is, I’m not selling my work, so it works for me, for now. But again, if I needed a more durable finish I wouldn’t hesitate to use a poly urethane or varnish.
15 September 2014 at 3:48 am #85184Don’t misunderstand me I love shellac but it isn’t for everything as a stand alone finish. What I was suggesting is to learn about other finishes by experienting you know trial and errors.
I am now able to to get a finish to make it a piece look like you’ve used a friction polish the type you use on a lathe all because I’m willing to experiment and so forth.Don’t limit yourself to one type of application is all I’m saying.
That is very true! I’ll post more pictures of the progress of the clock and desk. I hope to finish the clock this week and get the desk done as son as possible, so we can get the desk into my son’s room and I can start on a headboard for my father in law and a dartboard cabinet for my brother… Maybe I am making more than a half dozen projects a year…
I still agonize over the finishing aspect of woodworking! Lol
I don’t always post on other threads, but I enjoy stalking everyone else’s projects.
For your enjoyment.
Clock and the glued up panel for the desktop. I scraped the desktop top flat because I was getting wicked tear out. Also got to use a new to me Stanley 112
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You must be logged in to view attached files.19 September 2014 at 11:17 pm #93596Very nice! Looks like the scraper plane did the trick on the desktop. Keep posting photos of your progress.
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