A friend of mine, a fellow woodworker, passed away and left behind a stack of lumber that he’d collected over the years. His wife asked if I could make her a desk using some of the lumber. She did the design for the desk and together we went through the stack of lumber determining what we could use and how best to arrange all the different species of wood. We managed to incorporate most of the lumber in the desk and combine it in a way that the various woods worked together.
The desk is made up of maple, lacewood, zebrawood, padauk, purple heart, South American mahogany, Spanish cedar, and butternut. As most of the wood was around 1″ thick it would have been too thin for the span of the desk. So it was resawn to 1/4″ thick and the shopmade veneer was laminated on both sides of a 1″ thick core of plywood.
Working on the desk and seeing the final result brought back memories of a good man.
