Chest of drawers - spalted beech and recycled wood - Diego Bernasconi

[@jimmiemurvin1871]

Its not only a remarkable piece of furniture, it's a work of art. Congratulations!

[@diegobernasconi]

@@jimmiemurvin1871 Hey thank you! Very happy you like it. It really was great fun to design and make.

[@diegobernasconi]

I’ve been commissioned to make this piece for a client with a special love of wood. The drawer fronts have a sentimental touch as a good number of the bits used are coming from her personal life. There are some sort of teak slats for the cot she had for her daughters while living in Africa, pieces of African mahogany, walnut, cedar of Lebanon, even a broken chopping board that has been with them for a long time.

[@mattelias721]

Very nice. The carcase is bulletproof. I've wanted to use my collection of scraps in a similar application as you did for the drawer fronts - did you fit each edge by hand with a plane?

[@diegobernasconi]

@@mattelias721 hi Matt, thank you, glad you like it! I did’t use the shooting board and hand plane, I didn’t even think about it until you mentioned it, to be honest. I just made sure every end was square and started building from there, but also many of the longer pieces met edges only once, and then cut the overhang with the cross cut saw. I wanted to do it as random as possible rather nice and tidy and square, that’s why I even put some bits perpendicular to the rest, something pretty much “forbidden” in furniture making. Looking forward to seeing your design! Good luck, you’ll need a lot less bits than you think. I ended up using about half of the ones in the video.

[@gingerfishcreations]

what did you use to finish it? Wax? Oil?

[@diegobernasconi]

@@gingerfishcreations I used clear semi-matt Osmo. It worked great bringing up the features of the spalted beech. I used to use Liberon Finishing Oil and that was easier to apply. I always found Osmo quite sticky and much less forgiving if you don’t wipe everything thoroughly!

[@karluskasttro4538]

it´s a poor work of art.