grosa Posted January 17, 2015 Report Posted January 17, 2015 This piece was made from Poplar. The design was based on the existing furniture she had in the room. The front legs were cut on the band saw using the compound cutting technique. The back legs were turned on the Legacy ornamental mill. The top was cut on the RBI scroll saw. The drawer front was made using a combination of the RBI scroll saw and the inverted pin router. To make the drawer front I drew the design on a piece of 1/4" plywood and cut it out on the scroll saw, attached it to a piece of 3/4" plywood and cut a 3/8" deep groove the shape of the design into the 3/4" plywood. Removed the 1/4" template and threw it away. Now I have a cutting template for the pin router. Next I took a 10" wide Poplar board and attached the cutting template to the board and cut out my piece. I repeated this process until I had enough pieces to stack together to make the drawer front. I glued two pieces together then added 3 or 4 pin nails to hold it in place. I added another on top of that and repeated the process until the drawer was done. I didn't use pin nails on the last pieces. Then I put it all in clamps, I sanded it with 80 grit in clamps while the glue was wet and dripping so the sawdust would fill in any gaps. The painting was done in 4 steps. Black primer, then I painted certain areas with a red, then I painted it all black. When the black dried I took 0000 steel wool and rubbed off the black until the red showed through. Then I sprayed a pre cat lacquer to seal it all together. Wilson's Woodworking 1 Quote
Rob Roy Posted January 17, 2015 Report Posted January 17, 2015 Another beautiful piece Garcia. You could have gone over it with a duster before you photographed it Garcia.(just joking). Very nice. Rob Roy. Quote
LarryEA Posted January 17, 2015 Report Posted January 17, 2015 Beautiful. Thank you for the details. That is all important so we can envision what you did. Unique piece! Quote
grosa Posted January 17, 2015 Author Report Posted January 17, 2015 Thank you Rob Roy. My made was out sick that year. Thank you Larry Rob Roy 1 Quote
Scrolling Steve Posted January 17, 2015 Report Posted January 17, 2015 Once again some very nice Furniture is created!.........Thanks for showing...and for the details! Quote
amazingkevin Posted January 17, 2015 Report Posted January 17, 2015 Elegant and stylish,Took my breath away seeing such a piece as this! You don't fool around.Your maid would be sick for a year if she looked at the clean up job in my yard shop,lol.This looks like presidential furniture for the White House.Keep them coming! Quote
browders Posted January 18, 2015 Report Posted January 18, 2015 Dang! I'm suffering some serious woodworking envy. What awesome looking furniture. I'd like to sign up for lessons please. Jim Quote
spirithorse Posted January 18, 2015 Report Posted January 18, 2015 Great work, Garcia!Every project you show makes me wonder how such great work can be accomplished. As Browder said, Ihave some serious woodworking envy! LOLThanks for sharing and thanks for the explaination of the process. God Bless! Spirithorse Quote
grosa Posted January 18, 2015 Author Report Posted January 18, 2015 (edited) Thank you spirithorse. I am in the process of making a 30" wolf head so I started a blog on how I make it in detail http://www.scrollsawvillage.com/blog/22/entry-48-the-making-of-a-30-fret-wolf-head/ It will show everything in detail as if you were there with me. Edited January 18, 2015 by grosa Quote
ike Posted February 2, 2015 Report Posted February 2, 2015 That is a real nice piece. Thanks for showing Quote
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