Things are moving along at a slow but steady pace. I've done all I can do to procrastinate getting into the marquetry, so I will be starting it tomorrow.
No major mishaps yet. The thickness planer gave me a little trouble and shrunk the cabinet by almost an inch with it's snipiness. One lesson I keep learning over and over again is to be flexible with the design so to be able to adapt when these things happen.
After having success with lumber-core substrates in the veneered cabinet I did last year, I decided to use them again for this piece. After gluing them together it can be treated as a solid piece of wood.
They are made of 3/4" strips of poplar, each strip is oriented so that the grain alternates.
The thickness planer has had a lot of use lately and decided to take a chunk out of one of the substrates. It was repaired by gluing a snipe-shaped piece in the divot and flushing it off.
Once the substrates are cut to dimension, they are cross-banded with commercial aspen veneer.
These will be the two side panels, and top and bottom of the cabinet. "Bake-ins" were glued over the end-grain of the top and bottom before the cross-banding went on to provide a good glue surface for the edges that will go on after the veneers.
Sycamore veneers.
Boxwood. See the fourth one from the right?...planer ate it.
MMmmmmm that boxwood DO look kind of tastey, can you really blame that hungry planer? ... probably ha. That sucks. Yeah remember when it chewed up a whole 4-5" of the side of my Elm? GAH!
ReplyDeleteLumber core again huh, Yeah I probably like doing that better but plywood is so convenient when working with constant thicknesses.
Are you getting any good belches out of that bench-space ;p
and less bake-ins!
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