Thread: Box Practice

Very nice. is it Mountain Silky Oak?

Sheoak, Bulloak, Frigoak?


Al

Nice wee box Gazaly! I reckon silky oak, but the lid is different? Fiddle back eucalypt of some sort.


Cheers,

I reckon it's all silky oak and just beautiful!

cheers
Wendy

Nice looking boxes. They are always satisfying to make.

You may want to experiment with the spacing of the tails and pins on the dovetails. If you make the pins very slender sometimes it makes the joints look better but the work involved is no extra.

Try putting Traditional wax on after the EEE wax. EEE has Tripoli powder in it to polish the previous layer but is not recommended for the final finish.

My suggestions are for further improvement to already great looking boxes.

Originally Posted by Wood Borer

You may want to experiment with the spacing of the tails and pins on the dovetails. If you make the pins very slender sometimes it makes the joints look better but the work involved is no extra.

Thanks Borer, but until Rogor Gifkins makes a template to do it, I'm afraid I'm stuck with the spacings as are. That is of course unless I completey lose my mind and turn to the dark side :eek: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO000

Originally Posted by Wood Borer

Try putting Traditional wax on after the EEE wax. EEE has Tripoli powder in it to polish the previous layer but is not recommended for the final finish.

Thanks again. By traditional wax, do you mean:


Hey....Hey......Hey????? Oh forget it!

Gazaly,

Thanks for the explanation. Darkside methods have crossed your mind, you have thought about them, it is only your conclusion that needs a bit of fine tuning.

Yep, that's the wax I was talking about.

Keep up the thoughts on Darksiding.

As for the timber, the sides are banksia from Scuttle and the top and bottom are redwood from Ozwinner.

Thanks gents.

The dovetails look good buddy.

Hey Borer, delete some of ya PM's. I can't send ya one cause your full!

Emptied the inbox out somewhat - sorry about that.

ooh ooh, I know, I know...

dammit, you already spilled the beans...

Nice work matey...

You wanna make some boxes for my missus b'day and that wedding Im going too....

Im too damn busy making that cutting table atm!..

I thought you were making a sun lounge or something.....!!..

ps I picked up my gifkins dovetails bits yesterday....

I just need some more time to use them (and Im only working 4 days a week atm....where the hell does my time go!)


cheers

Redback

Originally Posted by Wood Borer

Darkside methods have crossed your mind, you have thought about them, it is only your conclusion that needs a bit of fine tuning.

I thought about the darkside once, but then I got well again