A striking pair of heavy, geometric bookends utilizing alternating, contrasting laminations of premium Hard Maple and Black Walnut. Designed as a mirrored pair (one walnut-dominant, one maple-dominant), these bookends feature multi-faceted compound bevel cuts that showcase the end grain, face grain, and geometric interaction of the two contrasting woods. Engineered to be solid and heavy (utilizing Hard Maple's 44 lb/ft³ density) to easily support heavy volumes without slipping, this project challenges the woodworker's milling precision, glue-up execution, and safe table saw compound angle cutting techniques.
intermediate wood other
Tools Required
- Table saw with 80-tooth crosscut blade
- Table saw tenoning jig or custom compound-angle sled
- Jointer
- Thickness planer
- Miter gauge with sacrificial fence and stop block
- Parallel clamps (minimum 4)
- Digital angle finder (bevel box)
- Card scraper
- Random orbital sander