Circular Beauty - Table Top Veneers

As a follow on to our last post, we thought that we would show you another piece of furniture that has arrived at our spray painting workshop in Huddersfield.

This impressive circular table top is made up of two different types of veneers - rosewood veneer and pippy oak veneer that is skillfully stitched together using glue thread.
 

Circular table top with veneers - unpolished state.

Below is a close up shot of the table top that shows just how well the veneers are joined - as you can see, the joints are extremely accurate!

Veneered table top - close up.

Over the next week or so, the table top will be sprayed and polished in a very similar way to the previous one that we showed you using top quality wood finishing products and we are sure that it will turn out spectacular - watch this space for the 'after' pictures!

The Beauty Of Rosewood

This week amongst all of our busyness, we have been doing a job for an interior design client of ours in West Yorkshire that will eventually end up in his customer's home in Manchester.  The job was to create a huge table top from a gorgeous piece of rosewood veneer that has a high gloss finish.

The boys in the spray shop have just finished the job and it's looking absolutely beautiful, so we thought we'd share with you bit about the process of turning a raw piece of wood into a highly polished, stunning piece of furniture.

Firstly, the rosewood top was sanded down in order to create a super smooth surface to work on.  The wood was then edged with a beveled solid iroko lipping to which the table top colour was then matched and stained to.

Raw rosewood table top with iroko lipping  - on the left the wood is sanded down.

After the surface was completely smooth, our amazingly talented spray painters got to work on turning the raw state of the wood into a highly polished surface.  Firstly, they started to build up and fill the grain, bringing out the markings of the wood by spray painting six coats of gloss AC lacquer onto the surface.  This was then left to dry and harden before the polishing began.

Once the lacquer had dried, the rosewood was then sanded flat again and the burnishing of the table top began. Firstly a cutting compound was used on the surface and then the high shine was achieved by the use of friction and pressure from a spinning pad on our burnishing tool.

It took a while to do, but the result was phenomenal!  Below is an image of the finished article and as you can see, our polishers did such a good job of the shine that you can see our workshop roof and wall in the reflection!  Another job well done over here at the mill that we're proud of...happy days!

Finished high gloss table top - So shiny you can see our workshop in the reflection!

Busy, busy, busy!

Wow....this week the work has gone mental over here in sunny Huddersfield, West Yorkshire!  Its always a nice feeling when you have a lot of work on rather than being quiet and this week is no exception!

We are currently doing a lot of work for some major brands (top secret though so we can't tell you yet!) and the workshop is filling up quickly with piles of wood that have been cut into components in our joinery shop on the CNC machine - these are now just waiting to be assembled and shipped out!

Wood cut to size by our CNC machine!

Also this week, we are busy making lots of chairs for the Nawaab restaurant in London.  Our joiners are working at the speed of light to get them finished and out on time and are also doing a superb job at stacking them up in order to keep the space to move in the workshop to a maximum - here is how they are looking at the moment:

Chair frames piled high in our workshop!

Once the chairs are finished being built, they will move into our spray shop to be painted to the customer's specification and will then be sent off on their way to be upholstered!  This is a big job for us and our customer that's ongoing, but once it's finished just imagine the amount of people that will sit on them in London whilst eating the delights of a curry!