ear3
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I stumbled across this beautiful wood a few months ago at a lumber place down in the Rockaways. It's called lacewood, which describes the spiderweb grain when the board is typically quartersawn. But when it is flat cut, you get this spotted leopard effect from the full exposure of the medullary rays. Anyway, I decided to use it as paneling for this piece of furniture I just finished for my office.
I have one corner of my office that is not occupied by something I built. That's where I positioned a filing cabinet, which, even in the era of electronic record keeping, is still useful for more important stuff.
The challenge of that space is the steam pipe that juts out maybe 4 inches from the side wall and 18 inches from the backwall, which places all sorts of restrictions on what might fit there. I still wanted to have a filing cabinet, but not give up all of that usable vertical space (ceilings are about 10ft tall), so I decided to do a towered construction, with a bookshelf stacked on top of a filing cabinet, which would be removable for transport and installation. This is essentially the same design I used for an earlier piece of furniture that is also in my office.
Very happy with the results of the Sapele/Lacewood combination, which is finished in clear matte Osmo. I found a few pieces of Sapele with more interesting grain, so I featured them on the more visible side of the bookcase and the drawer fronts.
I have one corner of my office that is not occupied by something I built. That's where I positioned a filing cabinet, which, even in the era of electronic record keeping, is still useful for more important stuff.
The challenge of that space is the steam pipe that juts out maybe 4 inches from the side wall and 18 inches from the backwall, which places all sorts of restrictions on what might fit there. I still wanted to have a filing cabinet, but not give up all of that usable vertical space (ceilings are about 10ft tall), so I decided to do a towered construction, with a bookshelf stacked on top of a filing cabinet, which would be removable for transport and installation. This is essentially the same design I used for an earlier piece of furniture that is also in my office.
Very happy with the results of the Sapele/Lacewood combination, which is finished in clear matte Osmo. I found a few pieces of Sapele with more interesting grain, so I featured them on the more visible side of the bookcase and the drawer fronts.
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