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A long and narrow slab of walnut on a workbench. It has two "live edges" with lighter color sap wood and darker middle. The lower edge is next to a black straight edge and this is the front of the shelf.
A long and narrow slab of walnut on a workbench. It has two "live edges" with lighter color sap wood and darker middle. The lower edge is next to a black straight edge and this is the front of the shelf.
A close of the front live edge. Mineral oil application has made the wood look much darker to simulate what a finished version might look like. There's a curve that protrudes out and it has a crazy amount of "crotch figure" (swirly lines and patterns) and chattoyance.
A close of the front live edge. Mineral oil application has made the wood look much darker to simulate what a finished version might look like. There's a curve that protrudes out and it has a crazy amount of "crotch figure" (swirly lines and patterns) and chattoyance.

I bought this slab of walnut two years. This has been many things in my head over that time. It's too short and narrow for a lot of those applications, but the two year timer is up and it has to become something.

So it'll be a monitor riser shelf for my desk. With the live edge on the front and the back squared off to avoid the sap wood. Looks like it'll be 44½" (113 cm) on the 55" (140 cm) table top, 12" (30.5 cm) at the narrowest and 15" (38 cm) at the widest.

Did some rough block planing and put some mineral oil to get a feel for what the showcase feature is going to be... just look at that crotch figure 😍

#Woodworking #BuildThread

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An e-ink tablet (PineNote) in the dark with the screen illuminated with an amber backlight. There are three iterations of drawings of the side profile of stubby angular legs, each more detailed. The last one with measurements.
An e-ink tablet (PineNote) in the dark with the screen illuminated with an amber backlight. There are three iterations of drawings of the side profile of stubby angular legs, each more detailed. The last one with measurements.

Today was leg (design) day on the PineNote!
I don't know if I have the skills to actually build this with the angles as drawn. I want something that's not just rectangles sticking out of a slab, want to try stuff, but without doing too many design elements and detracting from the wood figure.

I don't have enough walnut for legs but I have some cherry that I can mill up to be 1" (2.5 cm) thick or the most sensible way to say it: ⁴/₄ four quarter 🤦🏽‍♂️

Tomorrow we cut into the slab... hyperventilation!

#Woodworking #BuildThread #PineNote

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Mark B Tomlinson
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@shom I love that your take the time to add the metric values of you dimensions Shom. For me up to a yard it is fine in my head after that I am all metric. When I worked a draughtsman it was all metric and since then I am too.
The one thing I still have to think about is the double it and add 30 for temps, not super accurate but for middle temps near enough. At least the world mostly uses the same system for time 😂

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@mbt3d the Fahrenheit is just bananas. Sadly that's what I've become accustomed to despite growing up with Celcius. Not that it's impossible, but it is very difficult to do woodworking in metric in the US. But I definitely want the posts to be inclusive and also for me to have a better mental model so I convert.