Found this while cleaning the shop;

[tjbnwi]

the material at least [big grin]

Legs are ipe, bow tie is maple, seat is walnut with cherry edge band, exposed Domino's are steamed beech. There are 6 quarter sawn white oak Domino's in each leg assembly. The finish is Surfix.

All made from a single fixture.

Tom

 

[Jesse Cloud]

Very nice!  Too nice, in fact.  My wife strolled by as I was viewing and said "Oooh!  I want one!"

How did you make the legs?  Bent, laminated, or just cut that way?

Congrats on a great piece, all the more so as it was "found" wood!! [thumbs up]

 

[tjbnwi]

Glued up a U shaped piece to machine the legs out of, placed them in the fixture and routed away. The two larger pieces laying loose in the fixture are the spacers to set the router trammel distance. I routed all the internal arches then the outer arches. The top was routed in steps off the center line.

I started to video this for the contest. My iPhone ran out of memory so it didn't get finished. Except for the clamps every tools was a Festool.

If you want I can post a PDF of the sizes.

Tom

 

[panelchat]

beautiful little piece!
its seems to have a very nice shine to the finish- did you rub out/buff it after the surfix oil cured, or is it just the basic oil application method of wiping excess oil off and leaving it?

 

[tjbnwi]

Buffed once, final buff in the morning.

Tom

 

[semenza]

Tom, that is very sharp !  [cool]

Love the Dominos

Seth

 

[ScotF]

Beautiful piece!!  If that was lost in your shop, what other treasures do you have buried in there?  [eek] [poke]  [big grin]

Scot

 

[sancho57]

Awesome Tom,

Funny Ive been thinking on using the Surfix finish on my next project (media center) which happens to be walnut.

Looks like it does a nice job on walnut.

I really like the cherry accent banding and the dominos are pretty darned kewl…

 

[PaulMarcel]

Love the shape and design; well done!  That Surfix finish is interesting; might want to tinker with it.

 

[tjbnwi]

Beautiful piece!!  If that was lost in your shop, what other treasures do you have buried in there?   [eek] [poke]  [big grin]

Scot

You mean skeletons???

The Surfix was easy to work with. This may not have been the project to test it on. I could apply the oil to the legs with the Surix applicator, but not having an RO 90 or Deltex I had the do the rub in and buffing by hand (I cut a pad and tried the DTS, hand was easier). Make sure you leave the oil sit long enough before the 320 (or higher) Brilliant 2 sand. If your doing a large area order the additional oil of your choice, it would not be good to run out mid panel.

Thanks to everyone else, just wish the video would have worked out.

Tom

 

[ericbuggeln]

Tom, youre well rounded, Eric

 

[panelchat]

Tom- are you buffing it as per surfix instructions with the white Vlies, while wet, or buffing with another material after it dries?

 

[tjbnwi]

Both. I want to see what polishes and wax will do to the finish.

Tom

 

[Kev]

Face on it has a Chinese character feel to it. Very interesting piece!

 

[Wojciech Fortuna]

I like when people are using their heads in this profession. The effect is great... some nice skills were used. Congrats. Bow legs are quite easy to make even without the picture with the jig. I just cant figure out how did You route the top so precise. Now I have something to think about. Thank You regards

 

[tjbnwi]

I was shooting a video of how I did the seat, seeing as I'm not a very intelligent person, it did not go well. I guess you need to free up memory on your phone once in awhile.

I shaped the seat with the MFT 3, 1400 router, 5/8" Otto cutting bit, both wings from the UG stand on the right side/rail side of the MFT 3.

The seat is 488 mm in width.

Starting at the right edge of the seat, set the bit to zero. Slide the seat to the right 5/8", remove .5 mm. Slide remove .5 mm, continue until you get to the center. Now you have to raise the bit .5 mm with each 5/8" move.

The reason for concaved first is when you flip the seat, it now rides on the left and right edges. If you do the convex side first, the seat will rock.

To do the convexed side start on the right, set bit to 10 mm, route, slide seat 5/8", raise bit .5 mm, repeat until you reach the center. Now you have lower the bit bit .5 mm each move.

A few things to note;

The "rear" UG stand fence must be aligned to the MFT fence, both stands must be on plane with the MFT.

You need to have a pice of material the same thickness of the seat to support the rail as you slide the seat to the right..

There will be a minimal amount of sanding to blend the "steps".

It took me longer to type this than shape the seat. I'm sure I screwed up part of the process.

Tom