Finished the interior structure and the base stretchers today .. 2 19
If you blow it up, you can see where we left extra stock where the curved stretchers join the side stretchers. We'll cut that curve and sand it to a point just before we glue up ...
Inspiration photo
Long post coming here .... Lots of stuff working up to this one. It's a desk based loosely on a design By Edwin Lutyens, a British Architect who worked from the 1890's into the 1940. And, whoa, was he prolific. There is a great book by Elizabeth Wilhide on his life and work ... Amazing dude. So, we took a big desk in a castle he designed and chopped out the center section, redesigned the palette and the turnings a bit, and we're having at it. It's going to be a good one ... Lots of challenging techniques too ... Click the photos to enlarge them
The finished elevation
The desk as it is today ... 2/18
Leg stock pregrooved for moldings
Rouhging out the legs with the Vega Duplicator ... chips are FLYING !
The CAD files for the stretchers
which were cut on the cnc
which were cut on the cnc
So they fit real nice
We mortised the legs and the lower stretcher structure on the Multi Router ...
More later