Our local lumberyard had some honey locust — but not much, and they weren’t expecting any more!

I wanted to do something with that species, and I wanted to upgrade my first shoe shelf. I ended up stretching the locust out by laminating it with walnut, and tapering it to compensate for some wane.

This was my first experience with laminates, dados, and hardwax finish. It was originally going to be much boxier, but having to work around the limits in the amount of stock made it more interesting than the initial design.

Materials: honey locust, walnut, Osmo polyx.

Design

Assembly