Small chest of drawers

[Philipp]

Hi all!

If someone is interested I have posted some pictures of a small chest of drawers here:

http://www.woodworking.de/cgi-bin/forum ... read/38251

Drawers are made from service tree and complete handwork. Frame is walnut and the rougher work was supported by some machinework. However, also here final handplaning was applied. Profiles made with a moulding plane and scratchstock.

Regards
Philipp

 

[woodbloke]

Philipp - good piece. I've always liked the concept of an open sided framework on all the pieces that I've seen and this is no exception. Dovetailing on the drawers is excellent, though I would have made the handles a tad less chunky...but that's just a personal thing. I did notice though that there appeared to be some glue residue on the underside of the top where it meets the carcass. You won't see it, of course, in normal everyday use...but you'll know it's there - Rob

 

[Philipp]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your comment. Glad that you like the piece.

What appears to you as glue residue is in reality a narrow stripe of tearout (grain changes direction there falling steeply "into the wood") and was produced when doing the final and alast and really final planing strokes... :evil:

I left it as it is. But you are right: the builder himself knows about every ever so small mistake and imperfection... :-$

Regards

Philipp

 

[woodbloke]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your comment. Glad that you like the piece.

What appears to you as glue residue is in reality a narrow stripe of tearout (grain changes direction there falling steeply "into the wood") and was produced when doing the final and alast and really final planing strokes... :evil:

I left it as it is. But you are right: the builder himself knows about every ever so small mistake and imperfection... :-$

Regards

Philipp

This is one of the little problems that we have to contend with. I strive as an amateur (in my case) maker to achieve something that's as near perfect as I can get, but there's always something(s) :x in each piece that the maker knows about, which very often can't be seen, but which detracts a little from the final result. The positive thing is that I attempt to learn from the errors and not build them into the next project :evil: As has been said many times here, perfection will never be achieved but we can aim for precision and hope to get somewhere close to perfection - Rob

 

[Tierney]

Lovely piece, the colour and character of the wood show really well.

Regards,

David

 

[OPJ]

Beautiful work and choice of timber. My German's a bit rusty... How did you finished the piece? Was it all scraped and planed by hand?

 

[Philipp]

Hi Olly,

As written in my first post, the drawers are complete handwork, so they are also handplaned.
The wood for the carcase was dimensioned with a thicknesser, all other steps again where pure handwork.

Drawers where treated inside with shellac dissolved in alcohol, the rest was oiled using a selfmade mixture of linseed and tung oil and was finally waxed using a selfmade mixture og carnauba- and beeswax dissolved in turpentine.
Polishing of this wax is not easy as carnauba wax makes the whole mix quite hard and stiff, so some force is needed when polishing with a piece of cloth.


Best regards
Philipp

 

[MikeG.]

Drawers are made from service tree

What is Service tree wood? I've never heard of this.....

Mike

 

[Philipp]

What is Service tree wood? I've never heard of this.....

To be honest, I never have heard this word in use either...

I checked a dictionary for the species Sorbus torminalis and received that result. Sorbus torminalis is a relative of the rowan berry (Sorbus aucuparia) and the sorb tree (Sorbus domestica). Don't know whether S. domestica and S. torminalis are abundant in the UK.

Regards
Philipp

 

[Wanlock Dod]

Hi Philipp,

A lovely piece indeed.

Mike - I suspect that this is what we would call a Wild Service Tree (lobed leaves a little bit like oak and red/orange (apparently edible) berries. Other similar species (well Sorbus anyway) that you might be more familiar with are the Whitebeam and the Rowan.

Cheers,

Dod

 

[MikeG.]

Thanks Dod!!