Very pretty.

I wonder if they're plywood... Otherwise their grain is going the wrong way.

Good point, blowing up the picture of the largest butterfly it's not clear. It looks sort of like a design in the wood?

Could be regular butterfly joints, covered with an inlay.

What is it? Damifino, I guess it's a desk with embellishments. Maybe Timothy Leary's desk. :stpaddy:

With a little imagination you could make a pipe out of that pussy cat. ;)

Jap wood treatment of Cedar is supposed to make it more fire resistant.

I learned about that after watching this:



:devil:

Something tells me this wasn't built with an axe and adze. :headshake

Interesting, I do something similar to protect wooden xc skis.

Wow. The more you look at it, the more impressive it is.

This is strange, obviously not wood.

That looks like wood.

I'd say it's veneer.

It's interesting. The seams at the edges look like formica with the obvious white joint. If it's wood veneer, it's interesting that the woodworker was skilled enough to make the edge joints of the veneer completely disapear in the curved area, but was unable to make them disappear in the corners.

They claim it's wood.
http://www.alegna.eu/basicgallery

$35K

Veneer or not, I can see the joints in the curved area pretty clearly, especially on the closeups on the page you posted.

You see the joints in the curved area because of the grain changes at the joints.

exactly. I see where the joints should be, but I don't see the glue line.

There aren't any glue lines because everything is pressed together with a high pressure after being soaked with resin.

On the corners and edges, there's not much you can do about it if you want the clean lines of the veneer to go all the way; one or both of the ends of the veneer will be visible, and if the veneer makes a sharp corner, it's likely to chip. Some get around it by adding a frame of solid wood, or metal, around the edges, but that would break up the lines.

Pretty fancy whittlin'...

Zig-Zag stitch instead of butterflies, makes that opening more usable too.

Um... yeah.

Yeah, but that oozing and running calls for a different medication.

Swing baby...

When we were teenagers a friend of mine did that to his bed using chain and eyebolts.

Swung himself to sleep every night.

OK, building your own band saw is cool, and maybe your own block planes, but I can't buy making a tape measure. Nope, no way.

Another of those glass tables but a little different than the critters rising up through the surface like it was water. One thing you can count, an absolute truth, when there is a figure it will be female.

Looks a bit like the beautiful wood counters at the pot store.

http://cannabis-chronicles.com/wp-co...creen-shot.jpg

Custom crafted from a massive 750-year-old sunken tree that was pulled from the Willamette River six or eight years ago. Not long before the store opened, one of the owners saw an ad for the tree on Craigslist, and got an idea . . .

As you leave the Portland (OR) airport, you'll see these . . . beautiful!

http://columbiariverimages.com/Image...tures_2006.jpg

http://columbiariverimages.com/Image...pture_2006.jpg

Seeing those horses would give a veterinarian nightmares. :haha:

Those horseys got wood.

This may be slightly beyond your DIY skills without a little practice.
But these dudes make a bunch of different size and shape tambour furniture. I think this one is only $24k. :rolleyes:

http://cellar.org/2017/mFIi3T9.gif

nicely done.

Holy cow.

I was wrong on the price, that one is W41xH36xD18 at $14k.
The bigger one is W46xH62xD15 at $18k.

That is nice. I wonder what you use for a strap, and how it is attached, that is both long-lasting and replaceable.

It looks like the mechanism with the bronze rails is made, then the veneer added. What makes me think that is the grain pattern doesn't seem to be interrupted so the must be cutting the veneer with a laser or some other very narrow kerf method.

My mother in law has a tambour side cabinet as part of a dining room set, and while bored out of my mind at her place one day, I was closely examining it. There is a special cloth, a lot like canvas that is used.

And according to this online store, there is a tambour glue.

The thin kerf cut also really impressed me. I wondered how they did it. Maybe it's a standard 1/16th inch kerf that you would get on a thin kerf saw.

Sure, using the bunch of straps glued to canvas is the easiest way, but unless the curve in the track is gentle, the slats will open up a lot. The way around that was to make the strips of wood half rounds so the separation on turns wasn't noticeable. The high end pieces skipped the canvas and machined each slat to interlock. With that method there still had to be some rounded relief between slats. What these guys are doing is beyond that, big bucks beyond that.

:idea: In each of the material lists they mention leather but I don't see any showing. I wonder if they use leather for a backing on the tambour?

WANT!

Another one of those common pieces of factory equipment turned into a fancy table for the people who closed the factories and sent the work to China/Taiwan/ India/Africa.

Just find yourself a purty piece of wood... and some quarter sawn boards, then build a box.

Just glue your scraps together for a beautiful table.
Nice scraps required

Carved fireplace surround/mantle. I'll bet with a fire and a few candles or whale oil lamps for light, that sumbitch make some spooky shadows. :unsure:

If you want to graduate from carving wood to stone you can carve an Indian as big as a mountain, or fancy headstones for Russian gangsters, or something less ambitious like a bird.

Unique clock you can make, even cheat with doll or puppet hands.

No thalidomide jokes, please.

Of course not. After all, it's a *digital* clock.

Now this is a toilet, hand me a corn cob...

Wonder if it's called Hot Seat?

Heavy duty tables...

Pretty cool. What did those come out of? Not a Geo Prizm.

No idea, the crankshafts from a small 4 cylinder and the brake rotors from something yuge. :haha:

This will keep those poker players from flipping the table over...

Some clever designs...

Carving a guy who can't be president, look at those hands...

Build it then spend the rest of your life carving it.