Customer's projects pictures thread

[longtime lurker]

Annnnnnndddddddddddddddd another piece of Northern Silky bobs up in my inbox... this piece sent to a friend in Pa and being played with by Warmoth to his specifications.



 

Two in one evening, you ever get that feeling you're being sent a message???

[tule peak timber]

Beautiful pieces.....Silky Oak and me don't mix well as I have a severe allergy to the dust. What I had left in stock I gave away, beautiful but a trip to the doctors office when I saw it.

[longtime lurker]

Beautiful pieces.....Silky Oak and me don't mix well as I have a severe allergy to the dust. What I had left in stock I gave away, beautiful but a trip to the doctors office when I saw it.

Yeah that would be Southern Silky Grevillia robusta. I saw it occasionally, its a dryland species but some wanders in here sometimes on a contract sawing job: gives me watery eyes and a runny nose. And a bit too brittle to be really workable as a cabinet species IMHO.
Northern Silky is a different thing altogether.... big rainforest tree. I get a bit of contact dermatitis when sawing it but once the sap is dry it's fine. 
Got some planted in your Ironbarks huh?  (Actually heres a real good question for you Rob: anyone actually stick a bandmill in that Ironbark, and do they do any good or spend all their time sawing waves? I'm a bit curious about that lately.... time for a toy upgrade again)

[tule peak timber]

On the iron bark, only a little bit has passed through here as millwork. In Southern California there are dozens of species of eucalyptus and I've stopped milling any of them in favor of other wood that sells better. The market for walnuts, cedar, and redwood is almost limitless and where the hour meter needs to spin....
  On the dermatitis from silky I needed steroid shots , it was so bad- I looked like a Leper....
  I still use a little iron bark now and then for entry door thresholds and decorative square plugs on furniture and that's it...... ;D 

[Magicman]

A customer just sent me these pictures of a "cabinet" that he had built from some Red Oak that I QS for him.

 
The top.  Ask me if I hit the mark with that QS.  ;D



Front view.


 
And of course a quartering view.  I have no idea exactly what it is.  The lower front center panel appears to be suspended by track rollers and travels to the left.  Also there are no pulls on what appears to be drawers on the front and the center opening is for.....?

Whatever the purpose is, I thought that he did a superb job with his craftsmanship.  This piece is presently in the back of a pickup and traveling toward Jacksonville, FL.  

[Ljohnsaw]

That looks like a good "timeout" hut.  Just need a latch with a lock! ;)

[Rodman]

Beautiful wood & work by all. MM looks like a custom island with a dog kennel under it. Wife showed me one with same idea off of Pinterest. Just add the handles for the drawers & sliding door & it's done. 

[Tin Horse]

Great work! Did they happen to mention the stain used on that project? Currently 1/4 sawing RO. Can't wait to see those kind of results.

[Magicman]

I don't know about the stain/finish, but the dark color says walnut or maybe something even darker that was applied and wiped off.  It also appears that the top and side were treated differently.  ??

[Tin Horse]

I don't know about the stain/finish, but the dark color says walnut or maybe something even darker that was applied and wiped off.  It also appears that the top and side were treated differently.  ??

Ok. Thanks MM. I'll test a few shades. Something about that shade/ finish is what I love.

[WDH]

I just had a customer come and buy wood for one of those kennels.  Unlike your customer's kennel, the one I supplied the wood for ( blue stained yellow poplar) will have solid wood halfway up from the bottom with the bars from the middle of the sides to the top.  It is a dog jail ;D. 

[Nebraska]

That looks like a good replacement for a 1980 island in this clinic! Excellent doggie jail.

[caveman]

JMoore took some live oak and glued up a top that another friend of ours built a base for that fits over a dog crate.  This one will be auctioned off at one of our neighboring school's FFA event this Saturday night.  One of these days a freebie material/job may pay off.  If not, we did a little good for the neighborhood.



 

[btulloh]

Great idea. 

[doc henderson]

now the dog crate looks like a piece of furniture!  nice donation!!

[WDH]

Awesome an inspirational. 

[tule peak timber]

Today we started milling material for the reclaimed wood wall as part of the architectural millwork package in the New Natural Resources Headquarters building in Sacramento, CA. Below is a link to the YouTube showing this project.

I have been behind the scenes on this job for one year, 3-1/2 mos. and today we finally physically began work. Hard won, long fought.

New Natural Resources Headquarters Building Project 2021 - YouTube

[doc henderson]

very cool and thanks for the video.  if a picture is worth a thousand words.  ...

[Magicman]

Is this the "Brown" project?

[tule peak timber]

This is the "Brown Project" link. The name of this job is actually Rise Hollywood and ironically we just got re-engaged on another contract for additional millwork in this building about a week ago.  The "brown" refers to the horrific gyrations required to create the tones of brown for the interior millwork project. Beetle kill pine with voodoo #9 mix.
The link below is the architectural rendering of the apartment building project set to open soon.

The Rise Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA | Prices, Plans, Availability

[doc henderson]

Tule I know you are very busy, but we all miss you when you are gone!  (off line)

[thecfarm]

Probably will takes a while, a year? But would like to see that same video in real time.    Bring the forest to the city.  Looks like some wide "boards" will be used too.

[Jim_Rogers]

A while ago, I posted a picture of me cutting a hand hewed beam down the middle so the customer could use it in his house remodel project:


 

Late yesterday, he sent me some pictures of his completed project:


 

 

 

 

 

Jim Rogers

[longtime lurker]

I am kinda fortunate to have in my customer list (and as friends) two of the best woodturners around. And I say fortunate because (1) they're both great blokes and (2) they give me good press with others with the same interests and (3) that keeps the "not really commercial lumber but too good to throw out" pile thinned out. It's handy knowing blokes who will take wood in sizes down to inch by inch.




 

 

Nice hollow form about 11" across done in some of my Queensland Maple/ Northern Silver Ash / Black Bean



 

 

Pens done in (predominantly) Northern Silver Ash. I've got a bit of a rep for being able to keep it free of mould which helps move things along nicely because as we all know keeping whites bone white and not salt and pepper takes some doing. And y'all will note the nice banding done in Black Bean and Silver Ash in the background. Both of these guys do their own inlay work - by hand, the old fashioned way.

Would take more patience than I ever have to do either of the above, and the intarsia work they do is a whole lot of patience above and beyond again.

And... I dunno... I find this kind of stuff more satisfying than yet another truckload of 6 x 2's. One is wood as art, the other wood as commodity: good for the soul as opposed to good for the wallet perhaps. But looking at fine woodwork makes me happy in ways that seeing just another house does not.

[longtime lurker]

Slab bench/desk in Queensland Maple. Yeahhhhhhhhh, shame with some bits of wood, you then pile stuff on them and cant see it no more.



 

 

Of all the species I cut QMP is probably my favourite and this is why.... if you sell it to someone who's prepared to put in the work to finish it well it is always a joy to behold. Which is why its regarded as one of the worlds great cabinet timbers I guess.

And I think I'm learning to love epoxy infill - 10 years ago I'd have ripped that back into a couple clear boards either side of the heart shake when sawing because we only sold clear wood.   And I still get people walk in here and ask me why I dont throw out the slabs with holes in them :D



 

I don't know what finished was used. I do know that when you can see detail like that frosting in the casement windows reflecting in the surface: you've done a whole lot of work. I don't have enough words for just how impressed I am with the standard of this lady's work. I think I want to give her a job