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Thanks David, I'm glad you like it. Lots of work but worth seeing it finished and seeing how well it resembled the hickory and the wood work that went into the home.
Hello Tim, Thank you for the nice complement. Although this does resemble calico hickory this hutch is made out of pecky pine fininshed with multi coats of clear lacquer. I was fortunate to have build a large set of kitchen cabinets and bath cabinets for this customer of which had a large home built at the same time. It was a two story finished in knotty pine trim and panel pine doors through out. I did the cabinet work out of rough knotty calico hickory with black expoxy in the voids and defects. This gave it a western type appeal of which the customer having several horses and riding arena desired.
I build the master bedroom bed and furniture out of the pecky pine with some of the same black epoxy in voids and defects. After the finish of the project this piece was requested and wanted it out of the pecky pine to help tie the home interior trim into cabinets. What you see here is the results and to keep with the cabinet work in the kitchen I installed a slab of the same granite as used on the kitchen cabinet counters.
I hand painted the horse heads with porceline paint and oven baked it. The heads are done to resemble the two favorite horses they own.
To answer you question about using a cad drawing software, I normally do not use one and do not even use a rough sketch, drawing from my prior building experience and just get a customer sizes and describtion of what they desire and start cutting. I do this to insured that they have a one of a kind custom build.
I have a big 3-d drawing program loaded on one of my computers, that I paid a large amount of money for. Although it will draw anything you want in multi layer drawings about the only time I use it to do a cad drawings for other contractors or for my self in preparing for a building permit.
Google sketch up is a free cad program that would give you experience in learning the cad operation. Thanks again Tim.
Jay, i can see why you like hickory wood. this calico hickory is beautiful.
You did a great job on this hutch. Do you use cad or just do like me, a rough hand drawing? I would like to learn cad some day, i feel it could help reduce my mistakes.
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