rowley.jeffery
Key Slips with exotic wood veneer
The key slips or the pieces that are at the front base of each of the keyboards are actually steel. They were purchased from Classic Midi Works in Canada - link here: us.midiworks.ca/index.php/products.
I liked them as they were, but thought that I needed something a little more splashy and I do not recommend this method for anyone else simply because it took a lot of time and two complete tries to make it work.
They are covered with Bubinga Waterfall Veneer: Waterfall Bubinga Wood Veneer is one of the most figured woods you can find. The waterfall effects range from piece to piece. If you are looking for a one of kind, this is the veneer that can achieve it. Bubinga can be found in Cameroon, Gabon and Zaire. The common names are African Rosewood, Kewazinga and Kevasingo. This veneer was purchased at my local Woodcraft® Store in 8 sheets. They were "book matched" so in other words it is from the same cut and same tree. They slice the layers very thin and you can assemble the pieces to be a mirror image of the pattern.
In this case the pattern is matched from bottom to top and left to right. If placed together it would be all 8 sheets combined. Unbeknownst to me it ended up at the top middle manual with a heart.
This took about 4 weeks to finish and it was all ruined when direct sunlight hit my metal key slips and expanded them greatly - this cracking my creation. It took a day for the slips to go back to normal size, but it destroyed my efforts.
I regrouped and removed all of the veneer and had enough left to make a whole new application.
There are seams but they really are not noticeable because I took out my trusty oil paint and "healed" some of the more prominent cracks and touched up the areas for the top transition.
I think they look fantastic and am very pleased with the result. I also will have to make sure to never place the console in direct sunlight or heat.
Key Slips with exotic wood veneer
The key slips or the pieces that are at the front base of each of the keyboards are actually steel. They were purchased from Classic Midi Works in Canada - link here: us.midiworks.ca/index.php/products.
I liked them as they were, but thought that I needed something a little more splashy and I do not recommend this method for anyone else simply because it took a lot of time and two complete tries to make it work.
They are covered with Bubinga Waterfall Veneer: Waterfall Bubinga Wood Veneer is one of the most figured woods you can find. The waterfall effects range from piece to piece. If you are looking for a one of kind, this is the veneer that can achieve it. Bubinga can be found in Cameroon, Gabon and Zaire. The common names are African Rosewood, Kewazinga and Kevasingo. This veneer was purchased at my local Woodcraft® Store in 8 sheets. They were "book matched" so in other words it is from the same cut and same tree. They slice the layers very thin and you can assemble the pieces to be a mirror image of the pattern.
In this case the pattern is matched from bottom to top and left to right. If placed together it would be all 8 sheets combined. Unbeknownst to me it ended up at the top middle manual with a heart.
This took about 4 weeks to finish and it was all ruined when direct sunlight hit my metal key slips and expanded them greatly - this cracking my creation. It took a day for the slips to go back to normal size, but it destroyed my efforts.
I regrouped and removed all of the veneer and had enough left to make a whole new application.
There are seams but they really are not noticeable because I took out my trusty oil paint and "healed" some of the more prominent cracks and touched up the areas for the top transition.
I think they look fantastic and am very pleased with the result. I also will have to make sure to never place the console in direct sunlight or heat.