Arts and Crafts Desk
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Based on one from the early 1900s. White oak with pine as the secondary wood for the drawer.
They must have had tough shins back in the day.
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Nice desk Dave. As always, your wood texturing is really impressive. Love the quarter-sawn oak.
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Thankee, Doug.
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and evan in the render it still looks like from the early 1900s which is perfect!
(I had zoom in the picture first to see the clear model)
I love the material change on to a cheaper(?) wood in the drawer... -
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Thank you.
@hornoxx said:
I love the material change on to a cheaper(?) wood in the drawer...
It is common to use a cheaper wood for interior parts in furniture. Save the expensive stuff for where it'll show.
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@dave r said:
It is common to use a cheaper wood for interior parts in furniture. Save the expensive stuff for where it'll show.
Yup, normal practice dating back at least several hundred years maybe thousands!
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Solid!
Curious the natural crease sides!
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Once again........nice work Dave
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Secondary woods where always a less costly wood in the day but drawers with out runners need very dimensional stable wood. I think the old guys used pine for a reason. Very stable and easy to work. It turns out that Eastern white pine is one of the most stable woods around. Radial movement is 2.1% and tangential movement is 6.1%. As a comparison White oak is 5.6 and 10.5%, Maple 4.8 and 9.9%, cherry 3.7 and 7.1% (quartered cherry is my wood of choice for drawer sides) and for the curious Mesquite is the most dimensionally stable wood around. 2.2 and 2.6%. http://www.srww.com/ Swamp roads wood working has a great plug in tool for sketch up for calculating wood expansion and contraction.
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Don't you start, Pilou. That's the way the piece was made. Take it up with the designer.
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