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02-22-2017 08:37 PM |
Last year, I made a cabinet out of oak with flat walnut panels for the doors. I wasn’t sure how it would sell, but it didn’t last long on the floor. Once I get caught up, I’d like to make a couple more cabinets with contrasting woods. The next one I get too will be a walnut cabinet with curly maple doors. What are some of the wood combos you have used together or found to compliment each other? |
25 replies so far
#1 posted 02-22-2017 08:48 PM |
First, nice looking cabinet. I like cherry and walnut combos. |
#2 posted 02-22-2017 09:03 PM |
Yes, pretty much any wood mated with walnut. Maple on the other end of the spectrum where a lighter accent wood is wanted. |
#3 posted 02-22-2017 09:51 PM |
Ash and Purpleheart for me |
#4 posted 02-22-2017 10:31 PM |
Clammy, I really like buginga and white oak. Here is an example. -- Art |
#5 posted 02-22-2017 10:57 PM |
I like cherry and maple together. Walnut and white oak also work well together. -- Paul Mayer, http://youtube.com/c/toolmetrix |
#6 posted 02-22-2017 11:08 PM |
My favorite combo is Walnut and Birdseye Maple. I also like Purple heart and Yellow heart together. |
#7 posted 02-22-2017 11:15 PM |
I’m just wrapping up a keepsake box made from curly maple and padauk. While it sounds pretty stark, I’m please with the way it looks. I haven’t posted a finished photo in my project gallery yet but here it is during finishing: -- Brett — Peters Creek, Alaska |
#8 posted 02-22-2017 11:26 PM |
Im working some sapele and cherry right now. If i would have just left them alone and not tried to get cute i think they wouldve looked great together. -- Its not a crack, its a casting imperfection. |
#9 posted 02-23-2017 01:31 AM |
I make small boxes and I like oak and walnut together but cedar and maple sells best. Walnut and cedar, I do not like nor do I like cedar and oak together. -- No PHD just a DD214 Lubbock Texas |
#10 posted 02-23-2017 01:35 AM |
For me it doesn’t get better than walnut and maple. I love them together. -- Bill M. "People change, walnut doesn't" by Gene. |
#11 posted 02-23-2017 01:35 AM |
Everything I’ve ever made: Black Walnut / Flame Maple, just love them together. |
#12 posted 02-23-2017 01:39 AM |
Walnut and Jatoba…. the jatoba is so hard though. Here’s a bed I made. The jatoba is the reddish wood in the bedhead. It also has some maple in it. -- The smell of wood, coffee in the cup, the wife let's me do my thing, the lake is peaceful. |
#13 posted 02-23-2017 02:03 AM |
I like Wenge and Zebra wood |
#14 posted 02-23-2017 02:12 AM |
Maple and walnut or mahogany: |
#15 posted 02-23-2017 02:25 AM |
Honey Locust and Walnut. -- Don K, (Holland, Michigan) |
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