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263367 "Joseph Sullivan" <joe@j...> 2017‑09‑22 Table
Oho.

Elegant design, to be sure.  As to the drawer, from the write up it appears
that the Quaker lock allows only the front compartment to be revealed.  Yet
you have three compartments; are #2 and #3 of the order of secret
compartments that can only be examined by depressing the lock?

You say the top is Hard Maple; I seem to recall an earlier post that it is
the North American timber?  If so, I know it well.  Dense, hard, dent
resistant, and lovely.

I found a mill in the north woods of Minnesota where I can buy plenty of it,
S4S, at a price below that of ordinary Poplar in most retail stores.  Still
not exactly cheap. But reasonable, and they only charge $1.00 more per bd ft
for figure. The mill is near my cabin.  I drive the 1300 miles up there once
a year with a little trailer so we can haul stuff back and forth.  Last time
I bought half a dozen heavily figured curly and birds-eye boards.  He sells
them at actual width and at 9/16 rather than 3/4 as is usual with our
debased dimensions here in the states, so you get more per nominal bd ft as
well as having a good price.  I asked him what it would cost to resaw as I
have no resaw ability for boards of that size.  He ran my selected few
through a horizontal bandsaw for $0.15 per linear foot.  I am about to make
a birds-eye frame about 4" x 6" this weekend, for a shallow shadow box to
display a large Chinese silk embroidery piece that my grandfather brought
back from the Pacific war in 1945.

What fun.

Joseph Sullivan
263368 Derek Cohen <derekcohen@i...> 2017‑09‑22 Re: Table

            

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