When I finished this job, I didn't bring my camera with me. So last week I stopped by to get some shots.

This was my first herringbone with a border, but with the use of Ken's Festool plunge cut saw, it went pretty smoothly. Thanks Ken.

The floor is Mirage- Brazillian Cherry, BC border with Birdseye Maple strip, glued down.

It's different...nice install though.

Wow, looks very nice. I like the look very much. Very professional looking.

But did you stand on the desk to get the arial photo shots?

Looks real good!

Custom!


Did you have to mill your boards to lengths, or did it come cut for a herringbone??

Thanks guys.



It came cut for herringbone.




No, just held the camera up really high.


Another shot.

Very nice. Difficult to pull off well with a pre-finished product for sure. So, I'm am guessing this is a glue down? You installed the field herringbone first, correct? Then trimmed the field for the borders using the festool circular saw and guide, right. Then glued down the border/apron. Damn, that would be one time consuming job

That's exactly how it was done Gary. Only, the guides for the saw were too short. So I used some aluminum from the screen cage that was being constructed outside. It was screwed to the subfloor, and used as a guide. The stuff is light and straight as an arrow. I actually grabbed a few pieces that day that I still use to check floor flatness.

Edit: The field was also routed for the border. The corners of the border were routed too, and splined.

Real nice bayside ..

Beautiful workmanship, Bayside.
Gotta love that engineered Mirage product for precision fitting. Only downside to the line is the short lengths.

That is an awesome display of your skills. I just cut a herringbone package for a twelve thousand square foot house "on the job". Lucky thing is that only 6000 took oak! It was 4x24 inch 3/4 white oak. Did you make the herringbone from prefinished, and what are the lengths? Jeff-Tulsa

I have cut and installed herringbone on site using random lengths of prefinished. I went with 12" lengths for 2 1/4" strip. I kept track of it and the waste factor was 35% this way.