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Veneered Maple Desk – Part 3

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Veneered Maple Desk After the final sanding was completed, we applied the same finish to this desk as we do to many of our projects, which was a coat of sanding sealer followed by two coats of a bright rubbed conversion varnish. The resulting finish is rock-hard, very durable, and perfectly smooth. With the sealer [...]

Veneered Maple Desk – Part 2

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Veneered Maple Desk In this picture, we are looking at one of the legs of the table.  Once the glue on the Maple end caps had dried, we used a flush trim bit and our router to trim away the excess Maple overhang. It was then time to spray on two coats of lacquer to [...]

Veneered Maple Desk – Part 1

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Veneered Maple Desk We recently had a client from Memphis, Tennessee contact us about designing and building a Maple table.  The client saw the original table in an Apple store, being used as a display table, but he wanted to use the same design and turn it into a desk. The desk is downright massive! [...]