Julian the woodnut

I pulled the apple wood and mulberry out of the kiln yesterday, and was anxious to see what it looked like. This was the result. It's a 10x12 tray made with mulberry sides and an apple bottom panel. It was fun to make, and I must say that mulberry is a great wood for hand cutting dovetails in. It's fairly soft so chisels plow right through it.

In time the mulberry will darken to an orange-brown color similiar to osage orange, so it should look great with the apple bottom panel. This piece was finished with BLO and my homemade beeswax finish.

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b00kemdano

oh wow, that's beautiful! I wish I could find wood like that around here.

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firehawkmph

Very Nice Julian.
The apple is very pretty. You'll have to post a pic later on when the mulberry turns orange.
Mike Hawkins

kjhart0133

Beautiful tray, and excellent craftsmanship. I am curious, how did you attach the bottom? Did you dado a groove all the way around the inside? Did you rabbet a groove on the bottom? Thanks,

Kevin H.

Julian the woodnut

Kevin, the sides have a 5/16 x 1/4 dado, and the panel is planed down to 5/16 so it fits in the groove.

kjhart0133

Julian,

Thank you for the response. I guess I'm curious how you ran the dado so that it is not visible in any of the corners. Did you use a stop dado cut, or did you somehow cleverly cover the dado ends with a careful arrangement of the pins and/or tails of your dovetails? Oh, wait! Did you say you only put the dado in the sides?

In any event the final product looks great.

Kevin

Holden

Beautiful work, I had no idea apple wood was so striking in appearance. Holden

PTownSubbie

That is downright beautiful!!

What are you planning to use it for?

I wish I had some trees that I could cut and dry . I need some land with some forest on it!!

Fred

Julian the woodnut

Kevin, I stopped the dados in the tails so it wouldn't show on the ends. I just used a 1/4 spiral bit in the router table to make the cut.

Fred, All you need to do is watch craigslist for free wood. That's how I scored the mulberry. It was already cut down, so all I had to do was pick it up and mill it. I have plenty left over for firewood and for smoking in the barbeque.

joasis

Very nice! Never worked with Apple wood, and it definitely has an appeal.

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Rick C.

Julian,excellent craftsmanship,I'm amazed at the look of both woods.I've heard of smoking with apple not mulberry,there is another one I need to try.Nice tray,Rick

JP Sinclair

Nice! - I've been wanting to find some apple for milling to put in stock but very few people around here ever want to cut those trees. Very pretty look

CMSwoodworker

Its hard finding Apple. This turned out beautiful. Glad your camera could capture the colors on this piece.

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