Oak window sill

[woodguy7]

Just a small wee job but quite fiddly too.  The client has exposed the stone on his living room wall & is in the process of re-pointing it.  My job was to fit a peice of oak m.d.f to the top & scribe solid oak to the sides.  I made a sill from a cutting of Oak stair stringer & the apron from solid oak (apron is what we call the decorative peice under the sill)
The apron is not what first seems though.

bare window before i started
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A picture of the completed window
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Close up of the apron
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The apron is actually a front to a secret drawer
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Picture of the drawer box in place
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Closeup of the dovetails (hand cut)
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Drawer bottom linned with leather
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And completed job with drawer shut
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The drawer is quite shallow, only about 30mm high on the inside but if you never knew about it i dont think anyone would find it.  Fiddly cutting those dovetails on angled sides but it was worth the effort.

Cheers, Woodguy.

 

[woodguy7]

I put 2 pictures the same in by mistake & when i tried to remove 1 it just muddled the others around  [huh]  You get the idea though.

 

[speed]

wow thats pretty cool [eek]

 

[peter halle]

I come home after doing drywall work and then see this.  WOW!  You guys on the other side of the pond have some challenges thrust upon you, and you make it work.

Congrats!

Peter

 

[woodguy7]

Cheers guys, i love a challenge  [smile]

 

[Jesse Cloud]

Fiddly is the word!  A scribed drawer than pulls out between two rough stone walls!

You da man! [big grin]

BTW, I was so taken with the functionality that I forgot to say that it looks great, too!

 

[rookie08]

That looks really nice.  What a great way to highlight the stonework.

Loving that hidden drawer!

[thumbs up]

 

[windmill man]

Pure Class , my friend.

Beautiful work , well up to your normal standard.

You get all the good jobs [smile]

John

 

[richard.selwyn]

Looks like a beautiful spot with a view of the sea - and more like a castle than a house. Very nice job. From the look of the place, the job and the stereo speaker you have good client there. I've just been working on a cheap and nasty block and render single story erection that I am reluctant to call a house - I envy you.
Richard

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Very nice Alan!  That work for MI6 did pay off!  [wink]  I'm guessing the front entry is through a pantry cabinet?  [tongue]

 

[woodguy7]

Cheers guys  [smile]

Ken, you may be on to something there  [scratch chin]

 

[Mat D]

Great Job!!

I bet your client was so pleased with the results?

Really nice.

[thumbs up]

 

[jmbfestool]

I looked at the first few photos and thought I have done load of shelves onto and in-between stone work.  The hard thing was the shelves where pre made and glued up they where about 4inch thick and it was a pain a real pain to scribe them and try and get them in as they where floating shelves.  

Any way I carried on looking at your photos to see you have done a draw and scribed that aswell!  Nice! Impressed!  Most people properly would have let's say 1inch long piece scribed and prermantly fixed to give you a straight edge for your draw.   Did you check or have to chisels some stone work?  Cus it's a tight scribe surprised!

Jmb

 

[woodguy7]

No stonework was harmed in this project 

 

[tiralie]

The drawer is quite shallow, only about 30mm high on the inside but if you never knew about it i dont think anyone would find it.  Fiddly cutting those dovetails on angled sides but it was worth the effort.

Looks great. I do like those dovetails, nice detail.
At first I couldn't figure out what you were referring to with the angled sides (duh!) because of the perspective in the photo, it hides the fact that the stone walls angle in (or out into the room).
The scribing on both sides (top and drawer) looks great, hard (time consuming) to do when both sides are irregular and must fit.
Tim

 

[Rob Z]

Wow Alan, I'm late to this thread, but still I'd like to say that that is a trick piece of work. 

How old is the house?

Mr. Ashley pointed this thread out to me.

 

[woodguy7]

Cheers Rob.

Yea, Guy is a sucker for a hand cut dovetail  [big grin]  Not quite sure how old the house is.  The original part is probably only 100 year old but it has had additions to it over the years.

 

[Guy Ashley]

Yea, Guy is a sucker for a hand cut dovetail  [big grin] 

Alan, I'm a sucker for anything where true craftsmanship is demonstrated by the skilful use of handtools rather than a pure reliance on power tools.

Power tools have their place but you cannot top a project that demonstrates the skill and experience and care taken by the maker rather than the rush, rush, quick, quick, bang it out and onto the next job ethos that seems to pervade today!

Really nice work!  [thumbs up]

 

[MarkR]

Very skillful work, what technique did you use to get the shelf in, spilling or scribing? would have thought scribing would be a pain in the rump.

 

[woodguy7]

Cheers Mark

I scribed it to the stone.  It was a pain as the oak is quite hard to work on the end grain (as i am sure you are aware) & the shelf is 33mm thick.  Believe it or not but the most time consuming part was getting the small oak guides for the runners lined up perfectly.