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Desk for my daughter, Reclaimed Pine Heartwood and Maple

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Desk for my daughter, Reclaimed Pine Heartwood and MapleMy 8 year-old elder daughter requested that I make her a desk for her to do her homework on. I may have overdone it a bit—she'll grow into it, but at 5-feet long, it's quite a lot of desk for a little girl. Guess I should have scaled things down. Took me long enough too—I started back in April and just delivered last week…Very grateful to Brett for sharing the plans for his Walnut and Maple desk, with an honorary mention to BroncoBrian, whose Purpleheart and Maple rendition of Brett's plans I first stumbled across.The top and drawer fronts are ~100 year old pine heartwood, formerly floorboards from the kitchen of my ~100 year old house. For the top, although the boards started out around 13/16”, even with cauls I had to plane it to about 11/16” to get things flat, making for a relatively thin top. The many nail holes are filled with West System epoxy, colored with some black pigment that I had sitting around from an attempt at colored concrete many years ago. Body is all hard maple, nothing too exciting there.I'm really please with how this turned out. Made a lot of progress with my skills—the dovetails on the drawers are my best yet. Also during this project I finally figured out how reliably to get my chisels super sharp (thanks to a Paul Sellers video), which was a big help with chopping mortises in that hard-as-rock maple!



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