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I'm leaving San Diego this summer so I thought I'd go out with a bang at school
and take 2 woodworking classes this semester. Yikes. Having to work full-time,
interviewing for jobs cross-country, driving 1 hour to school one way twice a
week, all the homework assignments, and having my garage shop shutdown by
the HOA did not help. It was a tough semester but I made it through at the last
minute. This week is finals week so here are my projects.
Class 1, Veneering. Assignments: Minimum 12 piece match for sunburst table
top. Veneered checkerboard with small accent strip and mitered veneered
border.
Class 2, Wood bending and lamination, Assignments: Make 3 Shaker boxes using
steam bending techniques. Design and build bent wood lamination furniture
piece.
Well, I decided to combine the sunburst top and bent wood project into one
piece. What you see is a design borrowed from the Thos. Moser catalog
called the Vault Table. It's a 21" tall occassional table with 3 identical arched
legs. I built an MDF bending form, resawed walnut to 1/10" thick, and laminated
them together using plastic resin glue.
The top is a 12 piece walnut sunburst layed up on an MDF core with a solid
walnut surround. After gluing down the veneer using my homemade vacuum
veneer press from Joe Woodworker, I made a router trammel to cut the 26"
diameter top.
The finish is boiled linseed oil followed by shellac and then wax.
The checkerboard is 1 1/2" squares of straight-grained cherry veneer and
curly maple veneer.
Hope you like 'em.
Paul
and take 2 woodworking classes this semester. Yikes. Having to work full-time,
interviewing for jobs cross-country, driving 1 hour to school one way twice a
week, all the homework assignments, and having my garage shop shutdown by
the HOA did not help. It was a tough semester but I made it through at the last
minute. This week is finals week so here are my projects.
Class 1, Veneering. Assignments: Minimum 12 piece match for sunburst table
top. Veneered checkerboard with small accent strip and mitered veneered
border.
Class 2, Wood bending and lamination, Assignments: Make 3 Shaker boxes using
steam bending techniques. Design and build bent wood lamination furniture
piece.
Well, I decided to combine the sunburst top and bent wood project into one
piece. What you see is a design borrowed from the Thos. Moser catalog
called the Vault Table. It's a 21" tall occassional table with 3 identical arched
legs. I built an MDF bending form, resawed walnut to 1/10" thick, and laminated
them together using plastic resin glue.
The top is a 12 piece walnut sunburst layed up on an MDF core with a solid
walnut surround. After gluing down the veneer using my homemade vacuum
veneer press from Joe Woodworker, I made a router trammel to cut the 26"
diameter top.
The finish is boiled linseed oil followed by shellac and then wax.
The checkerboard is 1 1/2" squares of straight-grained cherry veneer and
curly maple veneer.
Hope you like 'em.
Paul
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