After months of contemplation and planning I have finally got my new fly tying desk. It is made out of walnut with popular as the secondary wood. It was built for me by a local cabinet maker that I discovered during my years at work.
The walnut was collected/cut by my father and I over a span of 20 or so years. I have been holding on to this wood for a lot of years for a special project, and I think I have found it.
The desk measures 48 inches wide by 27 inches deep. The chest of drawers is 18 inches high and contains 18 seperate drawers.
That’s a great looking desk! To have it made out of wood that you’ve saved for so long just makes it that much more of an instant airloom. What are the knobs made from or out of ? I’ve always liked desks that had lots of drawers or cubby holes to stick stuff in. You can never have too many. Yours look like they are almost airtight!
This is just spectacular. I thought it was beautiful when I saw the pictures, but now that I’ve read about the origins of the wood, it’s even better. Just terrific!
Hugh
I even slipped in a piece of walnut that my grandfather had cut at least 50 years ago. I guess you could call me a wood freak. I have gathered small pieces of walnut, maple and several other woods form all over the place. A couple of the rods I have built have reel reat spacers that came from Gates Lodge wood pile! Rusty told me that he cut the wood himself. I think it is a neet thing to use things like that in your projects. To me, it gives them more meaning.
Although I did not have a piece of wood from my Mother’s Father, I do have his old tying vice. It will have a home in one of the drawers.
Fantastic. I have no skills in that area, but I’m always amazed by folks who really enjoy working with wood. I have a friend who builds beautiful rod cases out of various materials (none of them are the heirloom quality you have accumulated, though), and the results are stunning. I’d tell you to enjoy the desk, but I think you already know that.
That is a beautiful piece of furniture. I love walnut, I think I am completely out now but I had a few scraps I hung onto for years before using them for bases to mount antler tips with a slit to hold a display fly. You will appreciate an unusual investment my college roommate made for his children. He planted a stand of walnut trees figuring by time he had past on they would be mature and his son and daughter would inherit the place and trees.
