Woodbloke
Sequoia
In 2017 I bought (for a very reasonable sum...a fiver 
) a very inauspicious board of London Plane from the very top of the log, so there was a lot of sap and bark; however I thought there was enough to get out a small cabinet with a solid, curved door:
The pics show the cabinet sans door as I'd taken it off by then as it appears the timber wasn't quite dry enough when it was made; as a consequence it had bowed and twisted over the last couple of years. I thought if I planed it flat, there would be enough 'meat' in the bowed and twisted wood to get out a 12mm thick, straight panel for another door. I had some more dry London Plane (of which more later ) so yesterday I very diligently made a new door with a flat panel, where the vertical styles would be slightly shaped to follow the contour of the base. So good, so far...I made a super-duper job of the door (if I say so meself :lol:; proper Krenovian matched grain etc etc ) except that when I offered it up to the cabinet.....
...it was about 30mm too short :eusa-whistle: :eusa-violin: :eusa-violin:
No way to fix it, no way to make a monumental cock-up into a feature, so it had to be another door.
As luck would have it, I bought a few very tolerable green boards a couple of years ago, again for a very reasonable price. One chunk I already had in the 'shop...
...was pretty spectacular and cost the grand sum of £8
but was too narrow for a new panel, so this morning I went and delved under the tarp outside and extracted another nice lump of London Plane...
...which cost the miserly sum of a tenner; 75mm thick :eusa-whistle:
With some careful cutting on the big bandsaw, I sorted out some oversize pieces for another door:
A couple of weeks ago, SWIMBO treated me to a new moisture meter from 'the old firm' and what a brilliant bit of kit it is!! When I tested the wood it had a MC of 14.5%...
...so all the wood is now conditioning for a month or two in the 'shop, when hopefully it should be less than 10% MC.
Every cloud has a silver lining though, so look what I've ended up with
Lacewood! The door I made yesterday is too good to be used as 'bandsaw fodder' so it'll be kept for another cabinet, possibly with drawers and a stand..who knows? - Rob
) a very inauspicious board of London Plane from the very top of the log, so there was a lot of sap and bark; however I thought there was enough to get out a small cabinet with a solid, curved door:The pics show the cabinet sans door as I'd taken it off by then as it appears the timber wasn't quite dry enough when it was made; as a consequence it had bowed and twisted over the last couple of years. I thought if I planed it flat, there would be enough 'meat' in the bowed and twisted wood to get out a 12mm thick, straight panel for another door. I had some more dry London Plane (of which more later
) so yesterday I very diligently made a new door with a flat panel, where the vertical styles would be slightly shaped to follow the contour of the base. So good, so far...I made a super-duper job of the door (if I say so meself :lol:; proper Krenovian matched grain etc etc ) except that when I offered it up to the cabinet........it was about 30mm too short :eusa-whistle: :eusa-violin: :eusa-violin:
No way to fix it, no way to make a monumental cock-up into a feature, so it had to be another door.
As luck would have it, I bought a few very tolerable green boards a couple of years ago, again for a very reasonable price. One chunk I already had in the 'shop...
...was pretty spectacular and cost the grand sum of £8
but was too narrow for a new panel, so this morning I went and delved under the tarp outside and extracted another nice lump of London Plane......which cost the miserly sum of a tenner; 75mm thick :eusa-whistle:
With some careful cutting on the big bandsaw, I sorted out some oversize pieces for another door:
A couple of weeks ago, SWIMBO treated me to a new moisture meter from 'the old firm' and what a brilliant bit of kit it is!! When I tested the wood it had a MC of 14.5%...
...so all the wood is now conditioning for a month or two in the 'shop, when hopefully it should be less than 10% MC.
Every cloud has a silver lining though, so look what I've ended up with
Lacewood! The door I made yesterday is too good to be used as 'bandsaw fodder' so it'll be kept for another cabinet, possibly with drawers and a stand..who knows? - Rob
