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!