Thread: Aidan's toy chest

I reckon it looks pretty flash. The rest of the box is fairly understated, so I think it's a nice embellishment. Just don't use them on everything you make

Nice one and the boy likes it, so mission accomplished.

Hold the phone. :eek:

Ryan dude, another excellent job.

I like the look of it personally .... as for leaving it outside in the garden? what ever floats your boat.

How were the inlays done? with the incra (?) system?

Originally Posted by ryanarcher

.........and take up painting............

Nice box, but have you steeled yourself for the day when Aidan proudly shows you his acrylic paint job he does on his toybox? I nearly burst out crying the first time one of the girls painted a silky oak jewellery box red and yellow and green and blue etc

Very nice work. I like th eparticular attention you paid to the dovetail inlays.

Cheers

Kris

Originally Posted by silentC

Just don't use them on everything you make

No, i don't think I'll ever use them again. They look pretty striking to non woodworking folk, but definately scream ROUTER JIG! to any cabinet maker that comes around.

Originally Posted by Wongo

Hold the phone. Ryan dude, another excellent job.

Thanks dude an inspiring compliment coming from you!

Originally Posted by stinky

I like the look of it personally .... as for leaving it outside in the garden? what ever floats your boat.

Stink,
Outside light is always better for photography. although next time i do a photo shoot, i don't think I'll hire models. Those guys were expensive :eek: and now they've set up camp in my house and refuse to leave!
inlay done using a leigh jig.

Originally Posted by namtrak

Nice box, but have you steeled yourself for the day when Aidan proudly shows you his acrylic paint job he does on his toybox? I nearly burst out crying the first time one of the girls painted a silky oak jewellery box red and yellow and green and blue etc

he's already marked it up a bit with pens. Hopefully though he'll be giving it to his kids and they can mark it up some more. but if he painted it completly :eek: ...i'd be weepin' too (so would he after i got through with him :eek: )

thanks guys
-Ryan

Ryan, That looks great. I'm just being a pratt with my criticism of inlaid dovetails. I'm sure they're bloody difficult to do wether theyre done with a router jig or not. You don't just put a tree in one end of the machine and pull an inlaid dovetail box out of the other.

Rock maple is hideously, hideously expensive over here, top end electric guitars ony me thinks.

As usual, Ryan, nice work.

Don't know why, but it reminds me of a coffin I saw somewhere recently with Dovetail Joints - and not as fancy as these ones.

Ryan, with the lid, did you make it as a coopered panel, or did you bend it afterwards? Reason I ask is that I'm making a similiar box at the mo' and I was thinking of curving the lid but I've already glued up the panel. It is a bit flexy, so I thought I might get away with it.

That looks great Ryan. As someone said, with that design, the inlaid dovetails look good. I don't think they "scream Router jig" - in fact, I reckon you've now set the challenge for darksiders to do a box with them hand done.

Very nice Ryan, He he he if the lad puts on some wheels and paints it red he could make out its a caboose(spellin? er the last train carriage!).

Originally Posted by silentC

Ryan, with the lid, did you make it as a coopered panel, or did you bend it afterwards? Reason I ask is that I'm making a similiar box at the mo' and I was thinking of curving the lid but I've already glued up the panel. It is a bit flexy, so I thought I might get away with it.

It's coopered. 16 (quartersawn) pieces with 1.25 degree bevels on each side. i also added some reinforcing ribs underneath because aidan's favorite game is to climb on top of the furniture and jump off.

Originally Posted by LineLefty

Ryan, That looks great. I'm just being a pratt with my criticism of inlaid dovetails. I'm sure they're bloody difficult to do wether theyre done with a router jig or not. You don't just put a tree in one end of the machine and pull an inlaid dovetail box out of the other.

Rock maple is hideously, hideously expensive over here, top end electric guitars ony me thinks.

No worries Bro there was never any hard feelings on my part. it's Like they say at my work - "f***'em if he can't take a joke"

Rock Maple is probably as expensive there as Bloodwood is here. all relative i guess. I got a pretty good deal, but had to buy a lot. 552 board feet for $1000US. to think i just wanted to build a kitchen island for SWMBO. now everything that comes out of my shop is made of hard maple .

Originally Posted by ryanarcher

Rock Maple is probably as expensive there as Bloodwood is here. all relative i guess. I got a pretty good deal, but had to buy a lot. 552 board feet for $1000US.

Ryan,

Now you are really rubbing our noses in it. 552 board feet is over 1.3 cubic metres. Here in QLD we pay about AUD5000 per cubic metre for rock maple, so you got it for about one-fifth of the price But then we pay over AUD4600 per cubic metre for jarrah, so maple's price is not that bad for us, who are used to paying high prices for quality timber.

I have never had the courage to attempt inlaid dovetails, although I do have a Leigh jig. But then I tend to subscribe to the Shaker view of beauty, where beauty is thought of as fitness for its purpose, and decoration for its own sake was frowned upon.

Rocker