Weapons Rack - cherry w/ wenge inlay

[drumpriest]

Having finally gotten the rest of our stuff moved from our old house (which finally sold), I found that I had a good deal of weapons laying about. All martial arts weapons mind you, swords, bokken, that sort of thing, and I wanted them hung up out of the way. I also had some cherry laying around, looking for a projects, so I made this....

There is an Asian inspired inlay of Wenge involved, as I wanted to add something, the joinery is mortise and loose tenon. This will eventually be wall mounted out of the reach of prying kids.







The finish is seal a cell and arm r seal, now just awaiting the "time" component of a good cherry finish.

[John Hunter]

Very nice.

[blame]

cool, great job. i like cherry but i find it burns easy if your blades are not sharp enough.

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[Ken Massingale]

Beautiful Keith.

[Knottscott]

That's cool! How'd you do the inlay?

[lrogers]

Very nice. How about a picture of it "loaded"?

[mater]

That looks very nice.

[Pappy]

Cool idea. I have a set of 'practice' swords that I need to make a rack for. Still on the plastic antlers.

[drumpriest]

I have to pick a place in the house to mount it, then I'll post a pic here loaded up.

The inlay was done in the traditional sense, designed a graphic on the computer using bezier curves, printed the pattern, mounted to some 1/8" wenge, and cut it out on the scroll saw. Then double stick taped it to the cherry, and scored the outside with a knife several times. Filled in the score lines with graphite, and routed out the inlay with an Amana inlay bit (1/16" in size). Clean up a bit with a nice sharp marples chisel, and chamfered the back of the inlay. Then glued it together. Afterwards I ran it through my drum sander a few times to level off the inlay.

This was a good project for me, using template routing, inlay, loose mortise and tenon, most of the skills that I've developed over the last 2 years, was glad to have the need for it, to get the chance to make something like this.

Thanks all,