Rippled sycamore and burr elm mirror

[vinnie_chip]

Hi everyone, started posting pics of this on the finishing forum but thought I should show it on here from start to finish.. hope you like it..

 

[vinnie_chip]

After ripping the elm in half..

 

[vinnie_chip]

These are the sections i decided to use..

 

[vinnie_chip]

After planing up the sycamore..

 

[vinnie_chip]

The customer wanted me to include some little bowties in the design somewhere..

 

[vinnie_chip]

Little elm bowties before chopping them in.. (it was the only place i could think where to put them)

 

[vinnie_chip]

The finished mirror, finished in (elm) osmo polyx oil, (sycamore) liberon beeswax.

 

[gasman]

what lovely wood - and you have done it justice
wel done
cheers Mark

 

[Charlie Woody]

Very nice, bet the customer was very pleased.

Just wondering how you ripped the elm boards when there was no straight edges?

 

[Woodmonkey]

I was also wondering how you resawed that elm, you must have one big bandsaw

 

[Grahamshed]

That is a good looking mirror and the elm is lovely. Well done.

 

[morfa]

Looks lovely. The bowties have come out well also. But the main thing is the lovely wood. Excellent job.

 

[vinnie_chip]

The place I bought the wood from (englishhardwoods.com) has a big resaw bandsaw jobbie so wasn't a problem ripping it in half..

 

[NickWelford]

The place I bought the wood from (englishhardwoods.com) has a big resaw bandsaw jobbie so wasn't a problem ripping it in half..

www.englishhardwoods.co.uk

Lovely piece of work