Working wood

Well, the house is finally finished and the desk will be on its way to its new home tomorrow. We finished it up a few weeks ago but we were waiting for the carpenters to finish, the hardware to arrive and the ok for delivery. All set now and ready to go except for a small adjustment that I see I need to make to the bottom file drawer face ... Its amazing what you dont see until you look at the photographs closely. Anyway ... no problem well take care of it in the morning before the shipper arrives ... A nice use of the 30" wide mahogany boards, if I do say so myself ... Good job boys .... Click the photos to enlarge them ...
Close up of the very nice handmade hardware by Richard Spreda, The Stowe Smith/
Drawers like this on both sides, 3/16ths by 1/2" brass hanging file supports in the bottom drawers. There is also a removable butterfly grommet (not shown in the file) for cord passage to the surge protector in the center below the kneehole ... The cord from that travels between the drawers and plugs into the wall that the desk will be placed up against ... More drawings, comments and construction photos from the original post here ...

Ive started work on the maple desk project! The idea is to custom make an executive desk that will match a home office. Here are some pictures of the office and style, and also of the materials Ive purchased. Ive bought 3/4" maple (good 2 sides) and some rough maple from a mill in Swanton, Ohio. The rough maple will, of course, go through my normal process of planers, joiners, and saws to square up the material and shape it to what I need. Itll take a few days to do this process.