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Sister in law wanted some bookcases built for her school books. I got the dimensions from her and started them. They are 3/4″ red oak ply with red oak for edge banding. The stain is cherry (to hopefully match the fireplace in her room). Original plan was to dado the shelves in but I got ahead of myself and edge banned them too quickly. So pocket holes it was. They are rock solid and not going anywhere. [External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied][External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied][External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied][External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied][External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied][External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied]
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Wow is that sharp, that grain is awesome!
This look great. So did you card scrape the face to match or was that just for glue.
I am currently watching a back episode in my Rob Cosman class where he is building a chest of drawers. He left the face extra wide and hand planed it down to the finish plywood. Its quite a process and not much room for error. I need to practice.
But nice job !
Great job Rich, it came out fantastic!
JimboS1ice wrote:
Wow is that sharp, that grain is awesome!
Thanks. Oak isn’t my favorite but it turned out nice.
rrmccabe wrote:
This look great. So did you card scrape the face to match or was that just for glue.
I am currently watching a back episode in my Rob Cosman class where he is building a chest of drawers. He left the face extra wide and hand planed it down to the finish plywood. Its quite a process and not much room for error. I need to practice.
But nice job !
Thanks. I used a card scraper to get the edge banding down to the plywood. Then sanded it. I hadn’t messed with the plane yet at that point so didn’t feel comfortable trying it that way. Card scraper worked really well.
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Nice job. Those look really nice.
rrich1 wrote:
6 hours ago, rrich1 said:
Thanks. Oak isn’t my favorite but it turned out nice.
Thanks. I used a card scraper to get the edge banding down to the plywood. Then sanded it. I hadn’t messed with the plane yet at that point so didn’t feel comfortable trying it that way. Card scraper worked really well.
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Oak is classic though, a little cliche but its such a beautiful grain IMO
JimboS1ice wrote:
1 hour ago, JimboS1ice said:Oak is classic though, a little cliche but its such a beautiful grain IMO
Agreed, it looks good in that stain too. Plus it’s different than the dark walnut everyone uses on oak.
BMack37 wrote:
On 5/9/2017 at 9:16 PM, BMack37 said:
Agreed, it looks good in that stain too. Plus it’s different than the dark walnut everyone uses on oak.
I use Minwax fruitwood oil on personal stuff. I have done a fair bit of staining at work with oak and I don’t remember using dark walnut. I have used Jacobean which is fairly dark. Jacobean plus amber shelac equals aged 70’s dark cabinet look.
Jronman wrote:
2 hours ago, Jronman said:I use Minwax fruitwood oil on personal stuff. I have done a fair bit of staining at work with oak and I don’t remember using dark walnut. I have used Jacobean which is fairly dark. Jacobean plus amber shelac equals aged 70’s dark cabinet look.
They’re pretty close in color, jacobean has a grey hue which makes it looked aged. Dark Walnut makes it look like the veneer you get on Walmart furniture.
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