Greene and Greene Desk

Andy,

A really well crafted piece to be proud of!

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher

Great lines. Airy. A piece of furniture I would be very proud to have in my office. Well crafted.

-- ***Pat*** Rookie woodworker looking for an education!!!

This is just superb..a delight to view and even be jealous! The lower cloud lift pieces seem so small..at my house I’d worry about rough housing dogs, and people putting their feet up on them. :-( thanks for sharing this..

Simply stunning!! Well done

-- I am not a hoarder...., I am a rescuer of still usable things !!

Andy – excellent G&G piece. It is in my favorites for use as inspiration as I start designing a G&G computer desk. I’m curious – where did you get the mahogany? Is it easy to work with?

-- Earl "I'm a pessamist - generally that increases the chance that things will turn out better than expected"

Andy,

Nicely done. Thanks for sharing

-- T Loftus -- Just on the edge of common sense

excellent work looks great

Very nice. It looks great.

-- earthartandfoods.com

Excellent!
The closer I look, the more details I see.

Can you tell us how many hours you spent and what you used for your cloud lifts (router template)?

Great looking Desk Andy very fine workmanship.

Beautiful piece – details and proportions are right on. Very pleasing to the eye, and I’m sure to the touch. Well done.

-- Rod - Oregon

Terriffic!!
Nicely done
would love to see, know about your jig to make the plugs
they are the most difficult part IMHO of G and G furniture

-- Bruce. a mind is like a book it is only useful when open.

Thanks for all of the compliments. I am very proud of this piece so the compliments mean a lot.

All of the curves were done on the router table using a template that I made out of plywood. I first plot the arcs full scale using a plotter. Then each one was cutout and stuck to the plywood using a spray adhesive. I cut them out on a bandsaw and the smoothed them out using an oscillating spindle sander with some hand sanding to get the final shape.

The lower lifts are actually much stronger than the look. The arch adds quite a bit of strength.

The mahogany was bought locally here in San Diego from TH&H Hardwoods. It machines very nicely. If anything I would prefer that it be a little harder. Other say they don’t have any trouble with blotching when staining but that hasn’t been my experience. I sealed it first with a coat of 1lb shellac followed by two coats of the dye stain.

-- Andy

Terriffic!!
Nicely done
would love to see, know about your jig to make the plugs
they are the most difficult part IMHO of G and G furniture

- abie

I’ll try to post some pictures of the jig tonight. There are actually a couple of different jigs that were used for the plugs and splines.

-- Andy

Absolutely gorgeous. Having made a couple G&G pieces I can really appreciate the time and care put into this desk.
I too would like to sees the router table jig to make the plugs. I used William Ng’s method that works pretty well.