Adze texture on pine

[Gene Davis]

Saw a piece in a special exhibit of western art at the Denver museum.  Probably from the teens or twenties, a sideboard hutch, all in pine, and textured with an adze.

Thought I might like to try building a near-copy.

I know where I can get a good chopper, but I was wondering whether the Festool planer with the curved knives could do what is needed.

Pics below of the original, and my Sketchup study.

 

[tbellemare]

That looks a lot like the HL 850 Undulating Head to me.

Tom

 

[bronco71]

That looks a lot like the HL 850 Undulating Head to me.

Tom

Yup.  Someone here posted up a cabinet he built with a similar treatment to the wood.  Maybe they will chime in and post up a link.

 

[SittingElf]

Actually, it looks more like it may have been done with a RAS.

If you watch Jory Brigham's videos, look for the bed build. Very similar and used the RAS.  The HL850 would generally be more linear.

Cheers,

Frank

 

[Phil Beckley]

Hi
Texturing with the H.L850 works very well. Another way is with the R.O SANDERS. The attached image was a Union Jack flag and the R.O.150 was used to give the surface a 'wave' effect. The big advantage is that you have control of the pattern and gradually going through the grits will of course provide the finished the surface. I started with 60 grit and super soft pad and finished at 400 with an interface pad to refine the 'wave'.
The finish was with Surfix.
rg
Phil

 

[iamnothim]

Hi Gene

What might be cool (work) is to take a No 4 1/4 or lower smoothing plane and sharpen the iron so the camber is exaggerated.  You could take an old iron and mung it up.

Luke

 

[Gene Davis]

As it turns out, I think I have what I need.  Close to 35 years ago, I bought a German-made gouge, a big one, from a hand tool outfit in Chicago called Frog Tool.  A #6 sweep x 40mm thing, a big fishtail.  Reason I bought it was to chop and smooth saddle cuts in pine logs after hogging them out with a Stihl AV028 chainsaw.  I was building a 3/4 size Adirondack lean-to for the kids.

I used the gouge as-is.  Never sharpened it.  Over the years it got used only to pare dried glue away from edgeglued joints.  Sad.

So while the museum piece was done by hand with an adze, per the artist info and the story on the placque, I'll try achieving the texture with this gouge.

Pic's attached.  One is of a gouge like mine.  I promise mine will look like that when I clean it up and sharpen it.  I did the prelim work with a 400g belt on a 1x30 sander/grinder, and when I get the felt wheel and stick of compound I ordered from Lee Valley, I'll hone the thing and polish it.