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Here's some pics of a king sized bed and two end tables that I just completed for a client. The wood is tiger maple and the finish is golden amber maple aniline dye,followed by boiled linseed oil , shellac, and wax. The joinery is all mortise and tenon with rosewood draw bored pegs. I book matched the center panels. My clients loved it.
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Great looking set. The figure in the maple looks terrifiic.
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Man o man...that's some good looking wood!
Great projects...good news is if the clients didn't like it, it'd probably go just fine in your own bedroom
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Lol, that would be a good option!Originally Posted by Troy Turner
Man o man...that's some good looking wood!
Great projects...good news is if the clients didn't like it, it'd probably go just fine in your own bedroom
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I can see why your clients are happy.
Pretty sweet looking maple you got for it.
Real nice job Robert.
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Very, very nice work. I love the way you brought out the figure. Since you're doing this for a client, can I ask how many hours you had in this?
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Sure, start to finish about 120 hrs. The technique I used was to use a thin wash coat of the water based aniline dye. That has two purposes. It puts a coat of dye in the soft grain ( the figure) and it raises the grain. I sanded all the surface dye with 150 grit and applied a full color coat . That way the soft curl ends up with two coats of dye and the hard grain one.
From there I put on a heavy coat of boiled linseed oil and kept applying it until it would not adsorb any more of it. I rubbed the wood down with a cloth and let it dry a few days. The boiled linseed oil really makes the grain "pop" as it drives the dye further down into the figure. Once alll of it was dry, I sprayed shellac with a HVLP gun for four coats, lightly scuffing in between.
The final step was to rub the shellac with OOOO steel wool, followed by paste wax.
Here's what it looks like with no finish coats. Just dye and BLO:
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Last edited by Robert Miller; 10-28-2011 at 9:51 AM.
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Here is what it looks like with just two coats of dye.
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Here's some pics before I rubbed out the shellac. Too high a shine and I wanted a inviting touch to the project.
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Last edited by Robert Miller; 10-28-2011 at 9:58 AM.
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Very nice. I'm not surprised the client was pleased.
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Outstanding work. It would break my heart to let it leave the shop when I was done. A very profesional job. Well Done!!
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I agree, they are beautiful. But I am in 'lust' with that workbench!
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Thanks Joe, you can see the thread I did a few years ago on building my bench here:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...he-bench)-pics
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