Popular Post Ronn W Posted June 5, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 Thougt I would share this veneer project. The hanging is 26" diameter made with Robbon sapele and Tamo Ash veneer. Assmebling peices. Blue tap used to pull pieces together and hold unitl veneer tape can be put on the show side of the piece. After Veneer taping and gluing in vacuum bag. Notice that glue was suckked thru the sapele. Scraped of easily - no big deal. Unfinished pics. Finishes pics - 7 coats on minwax clear gloss poly. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted June 5, 2018 Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 That turned out awesome! Nicely done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted June 5, 2018 Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 Real nice Ronn. Would have made a nice table top also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyoak Posted June 5, 2018 Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 Wow! That is perfection and beauty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drzaius Posted June 5, 2018 Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 Nice work Ronn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keggers Posted June 5, 2018 Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 Super nice job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted June 5, 2018 Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 Great job Ronn!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted June 5, 2018 Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 Great work Ronn, anyone would love to have that in their home, well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted June 5, 2018 Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 Awesome indeed!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted June 5, 2018 Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 Excellent young man. Just excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdwerker Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Veneer work is so exacting. Fitting all those pieces turned out very well ! Beautiful piece of work . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Wow this looks great. I like the look of those 2 woods together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 That's a great top. How thick are your veneer pieces? On the glue getting sucked through, did you worry that there would be pinholes where the glue came up through that messes with your finish? Did you have any issue finishing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronn W Posted June 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 11 hours ago, Brendon_t said: That's a great top. How thick are your veneer pieces? On the glue getting sucked through, did you worry that there would be pinholes where the glue came up through that messes with your finish? Did you have any issue finishing? The veneer, from Veneer Supply, is 1/46" thick. I can notice the difference between 1/46" and other veneer that is 1/42" thick. I used a fiberglass screen on top of the work piece on the bag in lieu of a caul. The glue that got sucked thru kind grabbed onto the screen and did not spread out. A card scraer took off the littel blobs - no problem. I have heard that using a screen actually causes more glue to be sucked thru becuase that is an " air path", whereas a solid caul sucks less glue through because there is no air suction through it like with a screen. I don't have enough experience to say if that is really true. I had no issues with the finishing other than my own self imposed ones. The minwax poly went on thick and smooth without significant air bubbles or dust nibs. Just keep your touch with the sponge brush very light. I was trying to get a perfectly smooth finish with all the grain topograhy levelled off. I got the sapele to that point but then realized that I would proboably need another 7 coats to level off the Tamo Ash - very deep grain in the dark areas. So I stopped. I don't think that I willt ry for perfectly smooth again - I kinds like seeing the texture of the wood. All depends on the wood , I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 Ronn, that is a beautiful piece of work? Mind enlightening me a bit? Never heard of ''Tamo ash" before. What's the deal with Tamo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronn W Posted June 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 I Really don't know much about it. I just bought the veneer because it looked like it would make a nice 12 piece hexagon match. Here is a little info on the lumber....... Tamo A species of common ash from the Far East produces one of the world's most rare and treasured woods. Native to Manchuria, but transplanted to the mountainous regions of Japan centuries ago, this particular ash owes its fame to a uniquely figured grain. Tamo, also called damo, shioji, and yachidama, looks like white ash. Very few trees, however, produce figured wood that resembles peanut shells laid side by side. Tamo trees develop this peanut figure when strong vines encircle their trunks. This girdling restricts the flow of nutrients. So the tree grows in spurts, and the grain shows it. When all timber harvesting was done by hand, workers would find such a tree, and in felling it, sometimes discover only half the wood to be figured. Because they had to carry the wood down the mountain on their shoulders, they only took the figured wood. For centuries, the peanut-figured wood was reserved for items made for Japanese royalty and shoguns, due to the difficulty in obtaining it. Japanese master craftsmen, seeking a more reliable supply of figured tamo, eventually learned to tie ropes around saplings. The controlled construction of the rope produced, over many years, the same figure in the tree. However, as these propagated tamo trees were harvested, the figured wood grew rarer and rarer. Now, Japan relies heavily on the import of fine cabinetwoods. And peanut-figured tamo-tied, slow-grown, and cultivated-has become very rare. It's available only in Japan as extremely expensive, minutely-thin veneer used for the most exclusive projects. Illustration: Jim Stevenson Photograph: Bob Calmer and here is a little more....... In its plain, unfigured form, Tamo Ash is very similar to the North American species Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra) , and is usually simply referred to as Japanese Ash (with the name Tamo being reserved for the more figured sections of wood). It is anecdotally reported that the peanut figure found in higher grades of Tamo Ash are caused by vines which wrap themselves around the tree’s trunk, restricting the flow of nutrients and causing the tree to grow in an uneven stop-and-go manner. Tamo Ash | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification ... www.wood-database.com/tamo-ash/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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