It’s a little scratch and dent given it’s made out of offcuts, scraps and extras from other projects but I think it came out okay. Three coats of fake “tung oil” finish and it came up to a nice warm semi-gloss, and ambered up the pine enough to take the edge off the grain.
Detail shot of the side hung, center guided drawer and its rabbeted dovetail front and shop made handle.
Yeah I’m going on a bit of a victory lap here, I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out.
Endangered hardwood shipped in from the other side of the planet? Nah. Depending on the budget I would use walnut, white oak ebonized with iron acetate, or something like beech stained with india ink.
It was a joke. A nightstand made out of ebony would cost tens of thousands I think. I’ve only seen it in pen blanks before, never dimensional.
My hardwood supplier doesn’t even stock it, and they stock genuine teak (at 40 bucks a board foot).
The guy who suggested mahogany (apparently a reference to an anime?) was more practical; I can get South American mahogany for 9 or 10 bucks a board foot, which is about comparable to walnut or quarter sawn oak. and I can get locally cut cherry for about 5.
Yea it’s like the rarest wood out there. It can be $200+ a board foot, it was intended as a joke since it would be like making your coffee table out of silver bars.