That is a thing of absolutely beauty. Look at that grain! :strangelove-wow:
thanks! As soon as I put them in I was wondering if it was too much and if I should have used walnut instead, but its grown on me.
9 coats of tung oil, took longer to finish than it did to build lmao
That's dope! I have so much respect for wood work. It's awesome. I would give it a try if I had the money and the space for it.
Absolute beaut.
How did you get into wood working? I really want too but its a daunting dive to take
Thanks! I always wanted to make stuff, and when the restaurant I worked at closed down I decided to go to school for a trade and I chose cabinetmaking. I got a bachelors certificate in a one year, four semester course where I learned all the basics and enough to get my foot in the door of most shops without having to push a broom or sand for a few years. I ended up having to sand for a few years at my first shop anyways lol. I wouldn't recommend the trade honestly, It's very niche with little requirement for skilled workers so the pay sucks and there's zero union presence since most custom shops only employ around six people on the floor. The plus side of the job are that its indoors, it tends to have stable hours (monday - friday), low interpersonal interaction, and is relatively physically undemanding. If you want to learn as a creative outlet, you can most certainly learn everything you need to know from books and youtube, although if there's a intro woodworking class at a high school or community college near you, you should most definitely take it if only to learn basic machine safety.
Definitely see if your local community college has any continuing education program or will let you take woodworking classes. I took night classes at my community college in Arizona, and essentially got access to a full woodworking studio beyond anything I could normally afford, schooling on safety and the basics, and a great teacher who would let us work on our own projects with the oversight of someone who knew what they were doing. Definitely a lot of older guys who would pay the class fee so they could come in and work on their own projects.
Although I've since moved to a place with a crappier community college system in which it is more difficult and expensive to enroll just for a single class, so your mileage may vary...
I found these curly as fuck boards at the sawmill and had to use em, but holy shit was it a bitch to flatten. probably took about six hours of belt sanding because I couldn't use a plane on it
this looks amazing! its clear you put a lot of effort into this, like this looks like a real labor of love. i love the legs, especially!
thanks! I actually fucked up half way through, didnt have enough material to fix it and had to improvise lol. The stretchers on the legs were supposed to be the same thickness as the legs and the roundover was going to seamlessly blend between to two but I had to make do with some smaller thickness scrap. I actually like the end result better and how the roundover stops creating a "socket" effect.
