Well, all is not mdf here even though it may look like it in my most recent post ... Will finished up
the double bureau yesterday and as I suspected, the cherry is spectacular ... This is my first photo session with my new lights and I think I can do better. The cherry seems kind of 'cool' compared to the real thing ... It's still set up so I've got all weekend ... Click the photos to enlarge them ...
this was a hard piece to photograph with all the 'action' in the wood grain ... i took the one above recently and it looks like we could call it 'bee's wing cherry'.
It's interesting to see how the design evolved as we progressed. If you check the cad drawing in the previous post (linked above) you'll see we started out with the legs pointing in the opposite direction, which is the way we've always used them as table legs. in this case, when we were waving them around before they were attached, inverting them seemed to give the bureau more connection and a 'better' feeling .... The cherry was soooooo nice, we debated the hardware choice until the very last minute ... In the end, we didn't want to 'clutter' the look of the piece and Sam is in the middle of a big railing project anyway ... So, brainstorm, imho ... continue the bolt theme with lag bolt pulls ... There was some concern about getting them installed exactly perpendicular, so we made the jig below. First we drilled the guide holes on the drill press, marked out the centers, stuck the brad point drill through into the center mark, pushed the wood guide firmly against the drawer face and drilled the pilot hole. Next we put a longer lag through the wood guide block and screwed it home. That created the perpendicular threading for the actual, shorter pulls which we installed by hand in the precut threads ... there are four 1/8" thick carpet glides on the back of the jig to protect the finished drawer face while in use ...
Below is a close up of the metal finish on the legs ... The angle iron was dynabraded (rotary air sander) with 80 grit and 120 grit. next it was treated with a chemical called ‘ready brown’ from
Sur-Fin Chemicals that works on brass and steel to quickly darken it to a brown black color. After treatment it was neutralized with a solution of baking soda and water, sanded again to add highlights, and top coated with ben moore ‘high gloss, low lustre’ metal finish … sounds complicated, but isn’t …
Great job Will and Sam ....
Well, all is not mdf here even though it may look like it in my most recent post ... Will finished up the double bureau yesterday and as I suspected, the cherry is spectacular ... This is my first photo session with my new lights and I think I can do better. The cherry seems kind of 'cool' compared to the real thing ... It's still set up so I've got all weekend ... Click the photos to enlarge them ...
this was a hard piece to photograph with all the 'action' in the wood grain ... i took the one above recently and it looks like we could call it 'bee's wing cherry'.
It's interesting to see how the design evolved as we progressed. If you check the cad drawing in the previous post (linked above) you'll see we started out with the legs pointing in the opposite direction, which is the way we've always used them as table legs. in this case, when we were waving them around before they were attached, inverting them seemed to give the bureau more connection and a 'better' feeling .... The cherry was soooooo nice, we debated the hardware choice until the very last minute ... In the end, we didn't want to 'clutter' the look of the piece and Sam is in the middle of a big railing project anyway ... So, brainstorm, imho ... continue the bolt theme with lag bolt pulls ... There was some concern about getting them installed exactly perpendicular, so we made the jig below. First we drilled the guide holes on the drill press, marked out the centers, stuck the brad point drill through into the center mark, pushed the wood guide firmly against the drawer face and drilled the pilot hole. Next we put a longer lag through the wood guide block and screwed it home. That created the perpendicular threading for the actual, shorter pulls which we installed by hand in the precut threads ... there are four 1/8" thick carpet glides on the back of the jig to protect the finished drawer face while in use ...
Below is a close up of the metal finish on the legs ... The angle iron was dynabraded (rotary air sander) with 80 grit and 120 grit. next it was treated with a chemical called ‘ready brown’ from Sur-Fin Chemicals that works on brass and steel to quickly darken it to a brown black color. After treatment it was neutralized with a solution of baking soda and water, sanded again to add highlights, and top coated with ben moore ‘high gloss, low lustre’ metal finish … sounds complicated, but isn’t …
Great job Will and Sam ....
I REALLY like this piece! The design is spot on. It's clean and simple but has such great motion.
ReplyDeleteI would disagree with your concern of color. I don't think the cherry looks cool at all. I would say there is a slight blue color cast to the image as a whole, but it certainly doesn't distract my goofy eye in the slightest. I'm also curious what type of lighting your now using!
Thanks for sharing another great post with us!
thanks jason ... i tried once over the weekend to get a 'warmer' photo using my old photography hot lights, but turns out there wasn't much of a noticeable difference ...looking again, the cherry is just a little 'cool' from being recently worked and finished. for these pictures, believe it or not, i just used the new florescent lighting in my finish room with a couple of white styrofoam reflectors to light the side better ... see the post about efficiency vermont ... i don't know the name of the bulbs, but they are sweet ...
ReplyDeleteWOW! Good to know. Well done with the lighting. To get a seamless background as smooth as you did is no small task (for some of us) I will have a look at those bulbs for sure. I'm a strobe guy, so I don't generally shoot with continuous lights. However the nice thing about digital cameras today, especially if you shoot RAW, is that white balance is SO SO easy to correct either in the camera or in post.
ReplyDeleteCheers!