I finished and posted a few pictures on a.b.p.w. of the Walnut Night Stand I have been working on. I used a magazine picture that the customer provided and make modifications per her requests. My customer is 94 years old. :~) Please take a look.
Walnut Night Stand
Nov 22, 2006
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Nice work! You work quickly and well.
Thank you... Quickly? I seem to stand around contemplating the next move a lot. ;~)
I have to comment here as my newsreader doesn't seem to want post replies.
I think that's beautiful work. You have a nice touch. I didn't get the whole post, so I may have missed the information as to who designed the nightstand? How thick are those sides of the carcasse. How is walnut in that thickness for warping?
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Thank you Sir.
My customer, a 94 year old woman that I have known since I was 6, I am now
52, handed me a picture out of a magazine. The stand had a TV and VCR setting on /in it. She wanted that basic configuration but dressed up a bit for bed room night table. I completely reddsigned the legs and lower apron and added the corner details, raised panel appearance on the drawer and top back edge guard. 3/4" thick. Actually all the Walnut on the piece is 3/4" thick except for the drawer back and sides which are 1/2" thick. I used a beading bit on the front edge and front edge side of the legs and cabinet sides to make the sides appear to be a bit thinner and to add the round bead in the corners. The legs are 2 pieces of 3/4" glued up to 1.5" thick and squared to 1.5" x 1.5" x 7.75" long. The bottoms of the legs are 3/4"x 3/4". I mortised and tenoned the union of the legs and aprons.'~) No problems so far.
Farther down in the post I posted 2 pictures of one a pair of night stands I built about 4 years ago out of Walnut. I'll repost in a new thread. Those, are an example of what I consider my best work.
Drat! I didn't get those. Maybe Mr. Delorie will post them later. I do get images from guys who upload them to places like PhotoBucket and ImageShack then post the links. My ISP (Bell Sympatico) doesn't seem to want to support newsgroups any more.
r
Oh, I like that! Thanks for reposting, Leon. (keeping that pic away from my wife)
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