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| Dovetail and Tiger Maple Detail |
A piece I just finished. It was to be the stand for a jewelry box I made years ago. My wife has never liked the box, so we have placed it on the main floor for a while. It is a Greene and Greene inspired piece. It has a floating shelf in the bottom. As with all my work, it is using Indiana woods. Cherry is the main wood with walnut pieces for the handles and floating shelves. The drawers are made from maple, tiger maple for the fronts and soft maple for the drawers. It was finished using a dark water based tint to color the wood very slightly, which was the first coat. Then all the pieces were rubbed with boiled linseed oil. The next coat was blonde shellac for the bottom, with a dark wax as a final finish coat. The top was coated with garnet shellac (dark), covered with a water based poly, I may wax it for a final coat -- I am not sure yet. The poly will protect it better for water damage and make it harder to repair than the bottom. Shellac can be re-melted using alcohol, so repair is easy.
The top is 7/8" thick and the legs are 1 1/2" thick. You can see the tiger maple in some of the pictures.
