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Cherry / Waterfall Bubinga Wine Cabinets (post #167976)

bones on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 13:40

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Finally completed this project. It got interruped with two other "emergency projects". Anyway one is for a client and one is for my wine. It's made with cherrry and waterfall bubuinga vaneered top. The hardware was chosen to match our other hutch. The glass is antique seed glass (again to match the hutch) with a stained glass front panel. It holds 16 bottles. I put a LED light in ours and the client wanted theirs plain (till they saw mine). Finish is two coats of waterlox original satin sealer, followed by three sprayed coats of the satin finish. There's a few design changes due to errors but they were covered up well. Anyway here's a link to a flicker slide show

http://www.flickr.com//photos/22447246@N06/sets/72157626974447275/show/

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Hi Bones , (post #167976, reply #1 of 3)

by oldusty in reply to bones [original] on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 07:04

Hi Bones ,

The wine cabinets are beautiful , the selection of grain and materials works for me .

very nice work thanks for sharing

regards dusty , boxmaker

Heck Yah ! (post #167976, reply #2 of 3)

by roc in reply to bones [original] on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 11:05

Those are beautiful !

Way to go.

Are you willing to say how you prepared the water fall veneer surface before finishing it? Did you plane it or sand it or both ? Did you have to use scraping ? Scraper plane or hand scrapers ?

Thanks

roc

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )

Finishing bubinga vaneer (post #167976, reply #3 of 3)

by bones in reply to roc [original] on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 22:22

The finishing was not that dificult. I used a vacum press and the glue form www.joewoodworker.com. It was nice dried hard and filled some of the minor voids. The vaneer was rated AAA+ so there were not many. I then used my festool OF1400 to get it and the cherry trim knocked down close, then went to small LN scraper plane and Some LN scrapers to finish it off. Like I mentioned I wish I'd have used a grain filler. Even after the initial two coats of sealer, the grain was evident it a couple areas. The wife and client did not notice it, but to me it sticks out like a sore thumb. Anyway my first experience with vaneer and bubinga too. I love it. Take care.

...For that old machine lovers: http://vintagemachinery.org/home.aspx