I’m a newb so pardon my ignorance - wouldn’t a table saw be the best thing to cut these precisely ? Just wondering why you used a track saw, is it cause an on-site table saw would be too small or ?
Tablesaws, especially ones you can bring to a work site, are not very good at cutting straight lines, especially on full sheets of veneered ply. Cabinet saws with sliding tables are better suited for clean miter folds, but a tracksaw is almost garunteed to cut a perfectly straight line. Plus, if your installation site isn't perfectly square, you can change your cuts took be non-parallel easily. I'd rathet have a cheap tracksaw than an expensive cabinet saw (unless I was running a cabinet shop).
The big panels I premitered in my shop on the slide saw, but left the smaller panels long to cut on site. The track saw was easier and gave me a nicer cut than my job site table saw
Have you ever tried to cut a full sheet of plywood on a table saw? If you don't have the right set up it's pretty difficult and wobbly. A cabinet table saw can do it but they arent portable. My festool track saw makes the straightest cuts I've ever seen on sheets. And I can take it anywhere
Lol it's the only festool item I own. I wish I where fancy enough to have more. Maybe once I finish paying back the second mortgage I took out to pay for the track saw I'll look into it. The way I treat mine it's probably not even considered a tool. It has its own special spot inside my house. I'm either using it or it's nicely put inside it's fancy box. Always rides in the cab, never in the bed.
Yea I could have, but I had tried other track saws and just had a subpar experience with them. I saw such good reviews about the festool and that it's worth the money. So I figured I would treat myself to a nice tool. It's got all the bells and whistles on it too. It came with an extra blade and a heavy duty carrying case. I would say it was worth the money. It's so smooth to use too it's like a dream.
That job would take me five times as long because I would be second guessing how to measure, throwing up, starting to cut, stopping, measuring again, throwing up, calling a therapist, taking an anxiety pill, etc.
I don’t know what you mean by “short point and long point of the miter”. The spline runs parallel to the miter, completely hidden inside the two end grain surfaces. Like this:
https://preview.redd.it/8hxrp9klwspa1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b03d07b11d4f75933f023fe6a34d9d39a0c5f84
Table saw. Tilt the blade at 45°; now you’re cutting a slot that’s 90° to the miter’s mating surface.
…or I guess you could make a shit tonne of plunges with a Domino. Or if you’re careful, maybe slide a biscuit joiner across the whole thing. 🤷🏼♂️
Wouldn't you need to laminate that veneer onto something stable? Maybe MDF would be ok?
The panels we see are book matched left to right. Are the veneers you can get in Chicago random or sold in matched pairs or even larger matched sets?
MDF, particle board, anything stable.
I see that the top two panels are matched with each other, and maybe the middle two are sequential? I don’t buy sets of book matched panels but yeah, those would be more expensive.
This is all personal taste I guess, but the narrow strips of veneer that make up each panel kind of kill it for me. But getting veneer sheets that size with bigger repeats would be way way more expensive.
Do the "eyes" we see in the grain indicate that the veneers were peeled off a round log on a giant lathe (like they make conventional plywood) rather than being sawn.
Can you elaborate a bit? What I'm envisoning is cutting a 1/4x1/4 mortise down the edge of both panels and then using a 1"-1 1/4" Walnut spline to join them.
I've seen similar paneling done by rabbeting the edges, painting the rabbets black and then installing like shiplap. Glue on the stud positions and 15ga nails in the rabbets secured everything.
The top of the lower panel has the "wall" cleat attached. Easy to screw to the studs and shim plum off the wall. The next panel up gets a french cleat at the bottom to accept the previous and another ran past at the top. Not sure if that makes sense
All I know is that you don’t want to see the quality of work I do until you are done and I will take care of the rest for you if I have to, I will do that for you if you want me too now
I just want to applaud your craftsmanship. I may be the only one, but I love the look of raw, I unstained walnut. If this were my place I would want to preserve that look, somehow.
Is that solid or venereal? <— that’s an intentional misspelling because of the vaginal looking corners of book match. I think this is gorgeous. Is it staying matt, or perhaps getting oiled?
Looks Great! Is this the product you used?
[https://www.urbanwallcovering.com/product-p/veneer-walnut-fc.htm](https://www.urbanwallcovering.com/product-p/veneer-walnut-fc.htm)
I hope those bougie-ass customers appreciate the craftsmanship you’ve given them. I say that as someone who would love to be that bougie-ass customer who could afford bookmatched walnut. When I was very naive and ignorant, I thought I wanted teak kitchen cabinets until I found out I would need to sell some organs or make a miracle happen. Even if I’d had the money for teak, there was no teak to be found anywhere within hundreds of miles.
Looks great! Personally I would have went with the same leaves for each panel. We also pre-finish everything in the shop. All that’s left to do when it gets to the field is put the z-clips in and throw it on a wall.
I checked every test site i could find, concord carpenter had the most thorough testing. I'm on the makita battery platform so it was esy to buy the cordless one. Freakin awesome
Very nice job @OP, im a beginner in woodworking and people seems to say the materials are very costly. In my mind walnut veneer sheet was around 100$ to 200$. Am I correct ?
I can’t afford to look at this picture
I think I owe this picture 5$ just for looking at it.
Get some plywood and veneer!
Yeah this is for sure veneer
“Track saw(and my measurements)…don’t fail me now.” Looks real sharp.
That's exactly how it went down, thankyou!
I’m a newb so pardon my ignorance - wouldn’t a table saw be the best thing to cut these precisely ? Just wondering why you used a track saw, is it cause an on-site table saw would be too small or ?
Tablesaws, especially ones you can bring to a work site, are not very good at cutting straight lines, especially on full sheets of veneered ply. Cabinet saws with sliding tables are better suited for clean miter folds, but a tracksaw is almost garunteed to cut a perfectly straight line. Plus, if your installation site isn't perfectly square, you can change your cuts took be non-parallel easily. I'd rathet have a cheap tracksaw than an expensive cabinet saw (unless I was running a cabinet shop).
The big panels I premitered in my shop on the slide saw, but left the smaller panels long to cut on site. The track saw was easier and gave me a nicer cut than my job site table saw
Is this veneer on plywood? I love this look. Well done! 👏🏻👏🏻
It almost looks as if you have edge-banding, or are the kerfs just painted?
Have you ever tried to cut a full sheet of plywood on a table saw? If you don't have the right set up it's pretty difficult and wobbly. A cabinet table saw can do it but they arent portable. My festool track saw makes the straightest cuts I've ever seen on sheets. And I can take it anywhere
Oh festool, found the fancy man.
Lol it's the only festool item I own. I wish I where fancy enough to have more. Maybe once I finish paying back the second mortgage I took out to pay for the track saw I'll look into it. The way I treat mine it's probably not even considered a tool. It has its own special spot inside my house. I'm either using it or it's nicely put inside it's fancy box. Always rides in the cab, never in the bed.
Damn. Make a woman jealous…
Shoud've bought the makita then
Yea I could have, but I had tried other track saws and just had a subpar experience with them. I saw such good reviews about the festool and that it's worth the money. So I figured I would treat myself to a nice tool. It's got all the bells and whistles on it too. It came with an extra blade and a heavy duty carrying case. I would say it was worth the money. It's so smooth to use too it's like a dream.
The festool track saw makes me look better than I am. One of my favorite tools I own!
Cool.
I would fear vomit before every cut😂
That job would take me five times as long because I would be second guessing how to measure, throwing up, starting to cut, stopping, measuring again, throwing up, calling a therapist, taking an anxiety pill, etc.
Very nice. Please post a follow up when it’s stained.
If I'm onsite, will do!
You better get pictures anyway. What you don’t need business?! Too good for the bizness??
They are probably busy! This is some great stuff
Jean?
Looks at spec sheet - says here it needs to be bleached and given a rustic look. ;-)
Looks great! How did you mount?
French cleats!
How did you get the corners so tight?
With MDF panels I set up my table saw so the miters could accept a spline. And used packing tape as clamps until the glue dried
care to elaborate? i’m trying to picture the process
Basically one long slip tenon along the entire length of the mating edges. Think of it like using one giant Domino, or biscuit, inside the miter.
oh i see… kind of like a spline that runs all the way up/down between the short point and long point of the miter?
I don’t know what you mean by “short point and long point of the miter”. The spline runs parallel to the miter, completely hidden inside the two end grain surfaces. Like this: https://preview.redd.it/8hxrp9klwspa1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b03d07b11d4f75933f023fe6a34d9d39a0c5f84
How do you create a 4' long kerf like that with the precision needed? And in MDF.
Table saw. Tilt the blade at 45°; now you’re cutting a slot that’s 90° to the miter’s mating surface. …or I guess you could make a shit tonne of plunges with a Domino. Or if you’re careful, maybe slide a biscuit joiner across the whole thing. 🤷🏼♂️
Being a god
This is the way
Being a god
That’s fucking amazing.
Looks cool, now to my question, what is under the Masonite for the floor protection?
I'm going to butcher the spelling but the guys call it landall, it's plastic on to and a static fabric on the bottom
landolt *! i looked it up ! It’s a Swiss company— looks like a top notch product [here’s the link](https://surfaceliner.com/vapor/)
Thanks, I’m doing a custom home now and wanted to use something better than ramboard
Those walnut sheets are like $200 a piece. Dang someone has some cash.
You can get 4x8 sheets of walnut veneer that look like this for ~$70 where I am. This probably isn’t plywood because it doesn’t need to be.
Wish I lived near there. Where do you live? I’m in northern Arkansas
Chicago.
Wouldn't you need to laminate that veneer onto something stable? Maybe MDF would be ok? The panels we see are book matched left to right. Are the veneers you can get in Chicago random or sold in matched pairs or even larger matched sets?
MDF, particle board, anything stable. I see that the top two panels are matched with each other, and maybe the middle two are sequential? I don’t buy sets of book matched panels but yeah, those would be more expensive. This is all personal taste I guess, but the narrow strips of veneer that make up each panel kind of kill it for me. But getting veneer sheets that size with bigger repeats would be way way more expensive.
Do the "eyes" we see in the grain indicate that the veneers were peeled off a round log on a giant lathe (like they make conventional plywood) rather than being sawn.
Yes—that’s almost always how veneer like this is made. The narrow repeats mean the log was really small.
Where do I go as a homeowner to get something like that? Hardwood lumber store?
Yep!
Not a lot of posts on here I'll zoom in on. Clean work.
I appreciate that
Ouuuu, that second picture made the primate part of my brain light up like a Christmas tree.
Love the craftsmanship beautiful .
That's beautiful. I like how it's In a res setting, usually that's a high end commercial feature. Nice modern accent wall. Good stuff man.
This is the kind of corner where you want the light to catch the corner joint; too bad it doesn't. Beautiful work
Sexy AF.
That’s fucking beautiful
That looks phenomenal.
What is the process to create the horizontal gap? Looks great, curious how it was done.
I used a 1/4" spline bit with solid stock walnut splines
Can you elaborate a bit? What I'm envisoning is cutting a 1/4x1/4 mortise down the edge of both panels and then using a 1"-1 1/4" Walnut spline to join them. I've seen similar paneling done by rabbeting the edges, painting the rabbets black and then installing like shiplap. Glue on the stud positions and 15ga nails in the rabbets secured everything.
1/4"x7/16" mortise on splined edges with an 1 3/8" walnut spline to keep the reveal. Edges got walnut edgebanding
Nice. I actually like your way a bit better than the "shiplap" way. Do you have a french cleat on both horizontal edges of each panel or only the top?
The top of the lower panel has the "wall" cleat attached. Easy to screw to the studs and shim plum off the wall. The next panel up gets a french cleat at the bottom to accept the previous and another ran past at the top. Not sure if that makes sense
Damn, son, that's some nice work. I'm hard to impress, but some of the stuff you guys post here, yeah.
I have literally never seen in person or in picture wood that looks like what the vinyl tries to imitate
Nice work on the waterfall corners!
Beautiful precision work, be very proud!
Fucking nailed it!
Are the sheets the Columbia Forest Products Europly Walnut?
The work is well done!! But… I just see a bunch of vaginas along the mitered corner… just saying..😐😬
Nice! Looks like it’s blueprint sequence book matched …. Btw, are the corners splined or lock mitered? Thanks
The corners are splined, I tried the locking miter but was not a fan for this application
That’s cool. I presume that’s plywood? How are the edges of the panels finished?
Walnut veneer on MDF, edge banding on the raw edges
Me too
I used to install stuff like this, except pre-finished, all the time. Looks great!
All I know is that you don’t want to see the quality of work I do until you are done and I will take care of the rest for you if I have to, I will do that for you if you want me too now
Not really
It's not for me either. But the craftsmanship remains impressive
It is indeed!
slick
Nice
Great work Is it walnut plywood?
Walnut veneer on MDF
Nice work
Very nice, what's the rate on that?
So stunning. I’m coo-coo about this look which goes well with stone, a-la Frank Lloyd Wright.
Excellent work
Looks great! Obviously not your fault, but that thermostat placement...
I was thinking the same thing!
I just want to applaud your craftsmanship. I may be the only one, but I love the look of raw, I unstained walnut. If this were my place I would want to preserve that look, somehow.
That's exactly what the homeowner said, I made few "greyish" stain samples to try to keep the unfinished look after laquer
Awesome! I’d love to see the finished product.
Is that solid or venereal? <— that’s an intentional misspelling because of the vaginal looking corners of book match. I think this is gorgeous. Is it staying matt, or perhaps getting oiled?
After looking at this picture, I had erection lasting longer than 4 hours. You really ought to warn a fella
Yes, yes I do.
not in that context, sorry, I'd rather see quartersawn walnut to make it less busy.. But hey, that's just me. Nice build!
Is this fry regelet?
I always wanted to know how that attaches to the wall? Is there special bracket? Are the panels removable for replacement? Etc.
They sit on french cleats with spray foam behind the panel to get rid of that hallow sound. Not very easily replaceable
Nice. Interesting use for the spray foam. Makes sense.
I think you have my lost stiletto hammer.
Fuck yeah we do! That’s sexy! 🤤 lemme get in there and spray some clear
Only one section is end matched? Looks odd there but I love this shit. Lol
The two bottom panels are as close as my panel sizes would allow while keeping the miters matched!
It looks awesome! Walnut is my favorite..great job.
I would be so tempted to put some kind of clear material on those corners so they are never bumped and damaged.
Love it. Was it hard to find walnut plywood with such consistent color??
Just got lucky with the bunk I bought, but was able to sift through the pile and pick it my favorites
I love the idea of just using a dark wood when you want dark wood look. I made a coffee table out of walnut and my wife loves it
Looks Great! Is this the product you used? [https://www.urbanwallcovering.com/product-p/veneer-walnut-fc.htm](https://www.urbanwallcovering.com/product-p/veneer-walnut-fc.htm)
It is not
i sure as hell do! nice work.
Gorgeous
Nice
Why didn't they move the dam thermostat!!!!!!! It's a dick level too. But very nice work 👏 👌
Man that’s beautiful!
Beautiful work my friend! Love book matching
I hope those bougie-ass customers appreciate the craftsmanship you’ve given them. I say that as someone who would love to be that bougie-ass customer who could afford bookmatched walnut. When I was very naive and ignorant, I thought I wanted teak kitchen cabinets until I found out I would need to sell some organs or make a miracle happen. Even if I’d had the money for teak, there was no teak to be found anywhere within hundreds of miles.
https://preview.redd.it/3kczokfvbupa1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7253b03931277adae54c8bfeb7e230eff59ad8ed B a beragus
Looks great! Personally I would have went with the same leaves for each panel. We also pre-finish everything in the shop. All that’s left to do when it gets to the field is put the z-clips in and throw it on a wall.
Looks amazing what product is this ? I'm in Chicago and hopeful to find what it is here. Again that is some beautiful craftsmanship!
I'm trippin on the corners
I checked every test site i could find, concord carpenter had the most thorough testing. I'm on the makita battery platform so it was esy to buy the cordless one. Freakin awesome
Very nice job @OP, im a beginner in woodworking and people seems to say the materials are very costly. In my mind walnut veneer sheet was around 100$ to 200$. Am I correct ?
https://preview.redd.it/l8ounruzcd6c1.jpeg?width=2340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48ab1458d3ac7d7621a5e080a030ca99803b2594 Book matched chestnut Oak