Thread: Tea lady's lidded box "Fred!"

So far it's the best thing you have ever turned!!!!

Originally Posted by ElizaLeahy

So far it's the best thing you have ever turned!!!!

Yep! No catches. No cracks. Lid isn't crooked.

To get the wood to really talk to you, you need a dram or two of single malt and to study the heft, grain, light refraction etc of the wood whilst savouring the whiskey.

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

To get the wood to really talk to you, you need a dram or two of single malt and to study the heft, grain, light refraction etc of the wood whilst savouring the whiskey.

Do I look through the glass or round it? Does it work with champagne.

Originally Posted by tea lady

Do I look through the glass or round it? Does it work with champagne.

Above the glass, of course. Champagne definitely works better, but only if it is vintage, not the cheap $60 a bottle French stuff, otherwise you might as well buy some good quality Aussie clone.

Can't find the appeal of scotch, even if some old single malt is drinkable. Without the sherry flavour it would be just wodka. Might as well drink a good sherry.

See how low we have fallen? Reminiscing about alcohol to forget that science has told us how bad it is to actally drink it.

Well, I done my thunking, and decided to just make a box to get going. Complicated can wait for later. So I'm just doing a little flattish box like eliza's first one out of a table leg off cut I got from rubbish pile. Laminated something-or-other. Straightish sides, flatish top.

1.Had to glue waste blocks to them cos there isn't much of it, then clamped that in the chuck.

2.Turned round and flat on the face.

3. hollowing

4. More hollowing

5. sanded to 400#

6. All shiny with EEE and then Shithot wax cos I couldn't get the lid off my shellawax.

7. Started doing the other part then the school rang and said that Small Boy was feeling sick, so off I went to be mother. Oh well. More turning tomorrow hopefully.

Hey, AM? Once you've finished Fred, are any follow-ups going to be called Wilma, Pebbles, Barney... ?

Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest

Can't find the appeal of scotch, even if some old single malt is drinkable. Without the sherry flavour it would be just wodka. Might as well drink a good sherry.

Sherry taste? Scotch? Your taste buds seriously need a check up And there's no such thing as a "good sherry!"

See how low we have fallen? Reminiscing about alcohol to forget that science has told us how bad it is to actally drink it.

Pah! Science hasn't, doctors have. And that's just their opinion. I defy them to scientifically and accurately demonstrate the damage a single shot of good whisky does to my system. They can't... they'll come back with "It has been proven that drinking enough fast enough will damage your health."

Again... PAH! So does water. It's called "drowning."

Or they break out the "science" of statistics. Humbug, I say! Statistics can prove anything you desire. For example, there has never been a single recorded death on the moon. Therefore, statistically, the moon is a healthier place to live!

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Hey, AM? Once you've finished Fred, are any follow-ups going to be called Wilma, Pebbles, Barney... ? No! Just lots of Freds.



Sherry taste? Scotch? Your taste buds seriously need a check up And there's no such thing as a "good sherry!" You could have a Tokay. That's pretty good.



Pah! Science hasn't, doctors have. And that's just their opinion. I defy them to scientifically and accurately demonstrate the damage a single shot of good whisky does to my system. They can't... they'll come back with "It has been proven that drinking enough fast enough will damage your health."

Again... PAH! So does water. It's called "drowning."

Or they break out the "science" of statistics. Humbug, I say! Statistics can prove anything you desire. For example, there has never been a single recorded death on the moon. Therefore, statistically, the moon is a healthier place to live!

Jeeeeez Skew! Sounds like you need a drink. Or at the very least a cup of tea.

Originally Posted by tea lady

Jeeeeez Skew! Sounds like you need a drink. Or at the very least a cup of tea.

Nar, just more time on the lathe. Got in late, did a little teensy bit more on my boxes and then got called in for tea just as I was getting into the rhythm of things.

After tea is deemed "too late" to upset the neighbours with my turning. I don't think it's the lathe noise so much as the blue air that often accompanies it.

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Sherry taste? Scotch? Your taste buds seriously need a check up And there's no such thing as a "good sherry!"

Alas, what a betrayal of your heritage!

Once distilled the "new make spirit" is placed into oak casks for the maturation process. Historically, casks previously used for sherry were used (as barrels are expensive, and there was a ready market for used sherry butts). Today, the casks used are typically sherry or bourbon casks. Bourbon production is a nearly inexhaustible generator of used barrels, due to a regulation requiring the use of new, oak barrels. Some believe that older whiskies are inherently better, but others find that the age for optimum flavour development changes drastically from distillery to distillery, or even from cask to cask.
Colour can give a clue to the type of cask (sherry or bourbon) used to age the whisky, although the addition of legal "spirit caramel" is sometimes used to darken an otherwise lightly coloured whisky. Sherried whisky is usually darker or more amber in colour, while whisky aged in ex-bourbon casks is usually a golden-yellow/honey colour.

(From Wikipedia)

Oak turned smells like rum...

Happy turning tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest

Alas, what a betrayal of your heritage!

Alright, alright... it's good for pre-flavouring casks.

As toddlers our dummies were dipped in sherry and, when a bit older, on special occasions we were allowed "sherry shanties." I can't stand the stuff now.

....all this talk about booze is makin' me thirsty, but it's only 9:43 in the am right now, too early to have a couple of cold ones

Hope "Small Boy" gets to feelin' better !!

Originally Posted by Ed Reiss

....all this talk about booze is makin' me thirsty, but it's only 9:43 in the am right now, too early to have a couple of cold ones

Hope "Small Boy" gets to feelin' better !!

It's already after 5pm somewhere in the world

Nice box TL. Was the timber pre-laminated, or did you do that yourself? Looks kinda cool

Cheers,
Dave