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The Least of These

comments (3) December 15th, 2009 in Reader's Gallery

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The desktop is made of scrub oak veneer (about 3/16 thick) top and bottom laminated to a birch and fir veneer core. The seams of the veneer layers are, as you can see, not straight because the tree wasn’t straight. In this way I utilized a lot more of the tree and also created a much more interesting effect. The seaming board to make this was a head scratcher to say the least.

The oystering was about a two-day project, which included the making of the jigs and patterns. Suffice it to say that it involved the use of a router with a flush trim bit, a pattern bit, some vacuum clamping, super glue, urea resin, a mold and a hundred clamps.

The stained glass and the stone… the stained glass isn’t anything special but, I’m pretty sure the stone is actually a piece of brick from a building. In Zoagli, Italy that was demolished by the allied forces in WWII. Washed upon onto the beach a zillion plus times, it became polished and caught my eye a couple of years ago

 

 

 

Design or Plan used: My own design - The Least of These

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posted in: Reader's Gallery, Writing Desk, stained glass, Scrub Oak, Oystered Veneer

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