Sims

Saw a thread on here a while back of some of you guys doing some wood working. Ran across these photos today on my computer. This is a desk I built about 6 years ago. 100% Solid cherry. Stock was purchased in AR from a small saw mill in rough cut form then cured in a barn for 6 months and then I roughed out with a planer and joiner and built this project from that. Had a couple hours in this one.

Thought some of you might enjoy.

c jackson

wow. beautiful.

RickyLee53

Nice piece, looks like a but more than a "couple of hours".

How long did it really take?

philafelman

looks really good...that color would look really good on kitchen cabinets as well.

Jenkinsal2

explain this "curing" thing you speak of?

Sims

Couple hundred hours...

Basically just stack the stock with shims in between each board and de-humidify.

HamiltonRex

that is some amazing work.

Dren

Beautiful work.

-RedneckDave-

Very nice work here.

tony1

Bullshit, I saw that at Ikea last week.

.Manny.

iTrader: (1)

LOL, except that you can pick up an Ikea desk that size with one hand.

96supercharged

I built a bench for our porch a few years back. You'd get seasick if you sat on it. :p

For some reason wood doesn't agree with me. Metal I love working with, wood, not so much.

Great work on the desk.

Sims

Haha, I don't think Ikea was open in Texas when I made that desk. I do remember that I had almost a grand in just the materials: rough lumber, drawer slides, pull handles, magnetic latches, glue, expansion *****, etc.

IIRC it was almost 450 pounds. I made it so that the top unbolts and then the middle section breaks down also.

pentaq

Excellent!