So this is where everyone went...

[wisardd1]

Any way, I posted this on another board, so I hope you don't mind it being posted here:

Hmm, I was making a mission style mirror for my Son and Daughter-in-law. It is 48x32 and I set it the desk I am also working on and thought, Hmm, I wonder! Looks like that would make for a cool desk top. Any ideas? Glue up is not my favorite part of woodworking. I thought I could use a contrast wood in this outline like Phipino Mahogany which this is, and fill the blanks with quarterawn oak. Any, just thinking about it and would love any feedback.
dale

[Joe Lyddon]

Hi Dale!

Glad you found us...

Welcome Aboard!

[wisardd1]

I don't get how to post pics here. Tried it several times to no evail.

[wisardd1]

Thanks Joe

[Joe Lyddon]

Take a look at the Tutorial section... and Introduction section...

[larryh86gt]

I've been hoping you would come over so I can see your lastest carvings. Welcome.
Larry

[wisardd1]

Nov 30, 2009 13:00:07 GMT -6 larryh86gt said:

I've been hoping you would come over so I can see your lastest carvings. Welcome.
Larry

Can I post carvings here? Thank you Larry

dale

[TDHofstetter]

Welcome, Dale!

I think it'd be a pain to have a paneled desktop. The panels will move with the seasons, meaning that there'd be distinct cracks in the desktop during dry seasons... just enough to drop the point of a pen into, making writing difficult at best. For a desktop, you really want a completely flat, smooth surface.

EDIT: For the APPEARANCE, though - which is really pretty neat - you could use an MDF substrate & veeer it with a pattern similar to the mirror's frame-and-panel pattern. That'd work just fine... and you CAN get QSWO veneer.

[larryh86gt]

Nov 30, 2009 13:02:11 GMT -6 wisardd1 said:

Nov 30, 2009 13:00:07 GMT -6 larryh86gt said:

I've been hoping you would come over so I can see your lastest carvings. Welcome.
Larry

Can I post carvings here? Thank you Larry

dale

Sure. I think General Woodworking would be the right section for showing them to us.
Larry

[wisardd1]

Thanks Tim, that is the kind of answer I was looking for. I just do the quartersawn 1 inch boards. Question. Why are desk or table tops glued up with small widths rather than larger widths? Why not 3 ten inch wideths instead of 6 five inch widths. Is there a rule of thumb to table tops?

dale

[TDHofstetter]

That's generally because wood moves at a different rate radially (from the center of the tree to the bark) and circumferentially (which some folks call "tangentially" - following the growth rings around the tree). Because of that difference, most wood will tend to warp as it moves. Wide boards will warp more obviously than narrow boards, and if you laminate up a panel with a bunch of narrow boards with the growth rings oriented the same, the resulting panel will also warp pretty obviously. If you alternate the growth ring orientation, though, where one stick warps upwards & the next one warps downwards, the worst you get is a shallow ripple instead of a large wave.

There are charts available showing the ratio of radial to circumferential movement of various woods - some woods move the same both directions - it's fine to use huge wide planks of those woods for tabletops & such. Other woods move radically differently in those two directions, and need to be ripped & flipped into small strips to make a fairly stable tabletop.

That's one of the great benefits to plywood - the veneer layers are nearly always parallel to the growth rings, so they tend to stay about as flat as anything can. MDF, too, makes very good tabletops because of its flatness & rigidity. If MDF "feels cheap", though... there's no dishonor in using plywood - beautiful furniture, GOOD furniture, has been built for a LONG, LONG TIME from plywood.

[sawduster]

For pics you need to enclose the url between image tags. If you look at the buttons above the typing window you'll see one with a globe and another with an envelope. The one betwixt those will give you a pair of image tags. Put you cursor between the ][ and copy your url there.



I copied and pasted the url for your first pic between the image tags and viola, the pic is in the post.

[wisardd1]

I did try that, I will try again. Sawduster (Jerry?) or another?

[dcarter636]

Just put a clear glass top over the deliberately floated luan panels and it will be a functional eye catcher.

[wisardd1]

Tim, is that a for real pic of you?

[TDHofstetter]

Yep - I'm really not green & flat, I just a skinny hairy fella.

[wisardd1]

Cool pic. Kind of Jethro Tull mixed with Robin Hood's living in an enchanted forest. A medevil soul at heart?

[TDHofstetter]

Yep, gotta' admit there's something neat about that period. I'd'a had a tinker's wagon with an anvil hangin' on one side & a springpole lathe on the other, crammed fulla' papyrus scrolls of drawings & design notes and apothecary jars.

Pulled by, no doubting, a heavy horse - cream-colored shire with huge ironclad featherfeet, pounding the dust.

[Leo Voisine]

Nov 30, 2009 14:48:23 GMT -6 wisardd1 said:

Tim, is that a for real pic of you?

Oh yeah - that's ole Timmer - and that is his posture too.

[Leo Voisine]

Hey there wizard - I am glad you came on over - love your stuff.

About the pics - you did everything right - except ONE detail

what you need to do is to cut the line http.........jpg and paste is BETWEEN the brackets with IMG -- I don't think this will show up - but

{IMG} http.......jpg {/IMG}

Except the square brackets

Go back and look at the tutorial again - you will see it

Anyway

WELCOME