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The 'Wishbone Desk'

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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Mike G » 20 Aug 2017, 20:29

I don't even know what brown oak is! ;)
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Woodbloke » 26 Aug 2017, 18:13

A little more's been done on this one. Owing to a truly ghastly bit of work on the bandsaw, mainly due to a blunt blade :oops: :oops: one of the pieces of veneer became too 'thin' after the top's initial sanding so I had to insert a 'dutchman'...

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...which turned out alright once it was planed and sanded flush.

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...which you can just about make out. Even better, SWIMBO hasn't spotted it yet :eusa-dance:

The frame has been glued (Cascamite) and the wishbone rail has a twin mortice and tenon, wedged with Indian ebony wedges, exposed and rounded....speciality of the house :D

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The drawer box has been made and is shown just cramped into position.

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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby RogerM » 26 Aug 2017, 19:17

Looking fabulous Rob. Consider that "Dutchman" idea nicked to install in my next cock up. Like the wedged tenons too.
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Malc2098 » 26 Aug 2017, 22:07

Nice
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby MattS » 30 Aug 2017, 23:14

Looks great, love the joint detail. And thanks for showing your mistakes as well. Very good rescue!
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Andyp » 31 Aug 2017, 07:35

Woodbloke wrote:
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...which you can just about make out. Even better, SWIMBO hasn't spotted it yet :eusa-dance:
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Woodbloke » 07 Sep 2017, 23:16

A few more bits n'pieces done on this one. The drawer box has been made and glued in place followed by the top, the frame and box have been polished with three thin coats of Osmo with wax over the top prior to assembly, wax yet to be cleaned off under the top:

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Completed joint on the wishbone rail, twin stub tenons, wedged, exposed and rounded:

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The rear of the drawer box, veneered in brown oak. This had to be fitted (on the bench) after the box was glued to the underside of the top, buttons used to join the twin real rails to the top:

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The drawer box itself, domino'd together. The drawer runs on a 12mm hornbeam rail located in the middle of the base and the drawer sides move on a pair of 3mm thick hornbeam runners:

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The drawer is made from 8mm thick quarter sawn oak, dovetailed together, with an oak centre muntin (under which is the 12mm hornbeam rail), quarter sawn oak bottoms and oak slips.The brown oak drawer front is located in position with a pair of 4mm brass pins and will eventually be screwed to the main drawer with eight 16mm Torx headed screws:

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A view of the front of the drawer showing the narrow 'edge' of the drawer box, which is the effect I was hoping to achieve. A circular recess has been routed out (depth 5mm) into which will fit an ebony knob which was spun up on the lathe this morning. The last thing to be made is a tray for A4 paper to fit inside the drawer and this was started this afternoon:

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Once the tray has been made, the last thing to do will be to give everything a final sand and then polish - Rob
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Malc2098 » 08 Sep 2017, 00:01

Beautiful.
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby TrimTheKing » 08 Sep 2017, 00:23

Very nice Roberto.

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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Andyp » 08 Sep 2017, 07:25

Gorgeous. I can see there is no place to hide doing the drawer front like that. V. Clever.
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby MattS » 08 Sep 2017, 09:27

Incredible work, it is all so perfect and precise. A joy to look at! :eusa-clap:
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Rod » 08 Sep 2017, 09:32

Nice

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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Woodbloke » 08 Sep 2017, 14:02

No project of mine is ever be complete without at least a couple of monumental cock-ups. The first is the 'dutchman' which was mentioned earlier, but an even more onerous one happened to the drawer box. The two sets of mating dom slots to fix the box to the top underside should have been perfectly in line...they weren't and were out by a smidge. :cry:
This had the effect of splaying the box from dead square to slightly out of kilter as it went in, but on the first glue up, it wasn't parallel to the front of the top. Even 'tappage' :eusa-whistle: with a white rubber maul wouldn't shift it, so I then had to use said maul to really belt it to break the glue 'grab' (TB3) to lift it out, the result of which was that there was severe damage to the narrow leading edge.
Fortunately, the jointing on the box itself wasn't kaput, but it took me two days of fiddling around with bits of brown oak to make the repairs.

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Although you can't see it in the pic, and would be very hard pushed to see it close up (even with the bottle glass lenses that Trim now has to use :lol: :lol:) the leading short edge closest to the camera has been completely rebuilt and re-polished. The second glue up was with Cascamite which gave me a lot longer open time and instead of a rubber tapometer, I used a cunning arrangement of sash cramps to position it precisely parallel to the desk edge - Rob
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Malc2098 » 08 Sep 2017, 14:04

A cunning plan, and still beautiful!
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby fiveeyes » 09 Sep 2017, 00:49

Very, very nice.
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Jimmy Mack » 09 Sep 2017, 12:43

Great to catch up on this wip Rob... Turning out great! A marked improvement on the drawer design and a tidy save on the desk veneer.

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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Woodbloke » 10 Sep 2017, 17:38

Completed this afternoon and the computer re-installed

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Drawer box with turned Indian Ebony pull, below;

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...and open to show the printer paper tray

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The desk top, finished with four coats of Osmo;

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and finally....

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...with the computer re-installed - Rob
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Tusses » 10 Sep 2017, 18:03

Looks great Rob :obscene-drinkingcheers:

even better when the grouting ages a bit ;)
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Rod » 10 Sep 2017, 18:44

Very nice but from the photos the drawer seems to dominate.

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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Woodbloke » 10 Sep 2017, 19:03

Rod wrote:Very nice but from the photos the drawer seems to dominate.

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Angle of the pic Rod, you can see it better in this shot. The drawer is large, but that's what I needed to hold printer paper, pens, pencils and other accumulated office crud (calculators, stapler, blu-tack etc) - Rob

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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Woodbloke » 10 Sep 2017, 19:04

Tusses wrote:Looks great Rob :obscene-drinkingcheers:

even better when the grouting ages a bit ;)


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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Rod » 10 Sep 2017, 19:33

That's a better angle

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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby Andyp » 10 Sep 2017, 20:10

Very nice Rob.
You have gone to all that effort to create a really gorgeous top and now only half of it can be seen :)

Like the detail inside the drawer with the cut outs in the paper tray.
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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby TrimTheKing » 10 Sep 2017, 22:06

Very nice Rob

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Re: The 'Wishbone Desk'

Postby MattS » 10 Sep 2017, 22:22

:text-bravo:

Like this a lot, you'll enjoy sitting at that, I would. Love the paper tray in the draw, and that handle looks great set in that recessed circle, lovely!
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