strange oak completed

[sunnybob]

As always with me, I finish something and THEN decide I should have taken pictures :eusa-doh:
This is the "hall table" which is actually a bedroom piece for a fairly tight room although the bed isnt normally pushed up against it like the pic shows.
The mirror frame is from the same oak. I made that first and had no issues at all with the wood.
The close up is the drawer front, with the flaked area roughly centre.
It would not pass muster to a customer, but as this is a spare bedroom only used a half dozen weeks a year it will do fine.
I always buy de waxed blonde shellac, but this oak has come out noticeably browner than other oak furniture I've made.

 

[sunnybob]

ARGGHH! Could Andy please oblige with the rotaions?

 

[Mike G]

That's nice Bob. You seem to have solved your problems pretty neatly. It's a new-to-me problem. I've bought tons of oak over the years, including lots of quarter sawn with medullary rays, and never had anything like that happen.

 

[AndyP]

ARGGHH! Could Andy please oblige with the rotaions?

Done.

I like that.

 

[sunnybob]

That's nice Bob. You seem to have solved your problems pretty neatly. It's a new-to-me problem. I've bought tons of oak over the years, including lots of quarter sawn with medullary rays, and never had anything like that happen.

Thanks Mike, it still amazes me that I can make something from wood that is acceptable indoors considering my complete uselessness with all hand tools :lol:

I've caught up on your desk making thread, I would love to make something like that with loads of mouldings, which I can actually do with the router table, but there is nowhere in our house that style would fit, and nobody in their right minds would pay me for my work. :eusa-hand:

Did you ever get to Cyprus? I remember there was a chance a few years ago.

 

[johnward]

Very nice Bob. Pleased you got over your problem with the lifting surface. I had something similar but on an outside table so not so much of a problem.

 

[sunnybob]

I'm annoyed over the one on the drawer panel. Although it does not show much to the eye, touching the wood as in dusting it is very obvious. I managed to cut around the others, except I got a scare when I fitted the top on as suddenly there was a big blister dead centre.... untii realised I had the top upside down :shock: :lol: When I fitted it the right way up the surface was good.

 

[Mike G]

........Did you ever get to Cyprus? I remember there was a chance a few years ago.

Not yet. It's a plan, still, but "events, dear boy, events" have got in the way.