Peacock Return

[munzieb]

I enjoyed making my Peacock Night Light so much I decided to pull out the patterns and try it again. This time I broke out the expensive wood, Babinga, for this project. It is definitely a denser and harder wood but does not change colors and darken like Padauk. This time I stack cut the 1/8" BBPW twice. I get too much blade drift with this fine pattern with anything over 1/4" total. I decided to Stain the panels to match the base, top and sides and found a red walnut stain at Lowe's. I applied a pre-stain to prevent any blotchy appearance and it helped. My wife thought it would look great if there was a pattern on the top. Knowing that Babinga can be a little brittle, I was hesitant cutting 1/2" material with such a fine pattern. The cutting went fine but when fitting it all together, I leaned on the top a little too much and broke off a piece of the pattern. Thanks goodness for CA glue, all better! Finished with shellac and gloss lacquer. I was kind of hoping that the top cutout would project up on the ceiling but I would need to add some kind of lens. I'll probably revisit the first one I did in oak to add the top design cutout but may "hog" out a 1/4" of material since it is 3/4.

[spirithorse]

Beautiful!
Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

[Rockytime]

That is a beautiful piece of work!

[lawson56]

OOHH.Awesome work!!!

[Scrolling Steve]

Nice, Very nice !

[daveww1]

awesome job

[Scrappile]

Very well done.  Great scrolling, fitting and finishing.

[fredfret]

Really like that. You did a great job.  Where did you get the pattern?

[heppnerguy]

This is really nice. I have thought about cutting a lamp but this one is over the top. What a great piece. Maybe I will consider making a lamp too.

Dick

heppnerguy

[Miran]

WAUW. Hope one day I can saw as good as that

[wombatie]

Oh I do so LOVE this piece.  BEAUTIFUL.     Could you tell me where you got the pattern from please?

Marg

Edited August 19, 2019 by wombatie

[amazingkevin]

absolute stunning work!!!