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Reception Desk and Counters

Canaday Designs - Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 10:52pm

This was a good project, s/s electropolished, all woodwork and countertops were done by Cornerstone Cabnets, richlight counters, and treefrog veneers. Design's by Bill Ostrander (owner) Jerry Johnson (cornerstone) and myself.

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Very sleek and clean. I

eligius1427 - Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 11:06pm

Very sleek and clean. I like the combination of all of the materials. Are the circles and rectangles inset into the wood stainless steel as well? It looks like there is some sort of pattern or grillwork. I don't have a whole lot of experience with stainless steel, but polishing out the couple of projects I did work on was a real chore. What exactly is electropolishing? Does it occur before or after fabrication? If it does occur before, how did you finish your joints(particularly the frames around the wood panels), they look flawless.

Great work!

Jake


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Hi Jake and thank you,The

Canaday Designs - Friday, January 4, 2008 - 12:32am

Hi Jake and thank you,
The panels are the veneers cherry (main) and coffee bubinga burl (inner rectangles and circles), pretty stuff, and then the 1/8 x 3/4 x 3/4 ss angle inside and outside frames. The electro polishing is cool stuff, I heard of it here from Giuseppe, but he got some gold in his somehow (I'm guessing post heating it). Any how, you do all your stuff and then they dip the pieces in some chemical and shock the crap out of it. Luckily I had the mind to make a little sample (with different grinding and polishing levels and so on) and send it to them, I was surprised at how much it doesn't do, but, you basically can treat the piece as if you were polishing it, but eliminate the last fine sanding and buffing steps. The legs we just didn't touch accept were we welded. It really saves a lot of time like DAYS OF WORK, it’s a great process.
Hope all this rambling helps
Matt


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Thanks for the info, Matt.

eligius1427 - Friday, January 4, 2008 - 10:41am

Thanks for the info, Matt. I'll be checking to see if electropolishing is available around here. Anything that gets me out of days of sanding and polishing is worth looking into.

Jake


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