Thread: A type of lazy susan

Coming along very nicely John , shame about the gap hey.

Do you have a picture of it side on, so we can see the profile of it.

Originally Posted by djstimber

Coming along very nicely John , shame about the gap hey.

Do you have a picture of it side on, so we can see the profile of it.

Do you mean the lid or the project?

Originally Posted by jow104

Do you mean the lid or the project?

The project with the lids on

The wife says she is hungary and we have got to eat so going up the supermarket, post some more pics when you are in bed.

The frontal view requested by DJ.





Decided to change tactics for the centre and make a one piece lid , compound angles drove me frantic and also realising that they would have to be cut by hand because of the small size.
Made a paper template as per picture and then sharpened my Stanley knife blade on the wet & dry sanding block ( I do that these days and I haven’t had to change or brake off any blade for sometime). Cut the six paper segments and marked the outside edges and timber variety, otherwise I thought I might have a large sort out puzzle at the end of the day.






Cut to the first to line on the SCMS saw;; but when needing to cut the other angle my fingers started to tingle, so I knocked up this idea for cutting the second side, I screwed a batten on my sawing board tightened it down tight on the timber and used it as a straight edge for cutting line. I can tell you using a Japanese saw the cut was super, equal or better than the SCMS cut.







The end is in sight, usually my boxes are 5 day jobs, but this one is stretching out, perhaps because it is 7 boxes.

Nice stuff John

Great project and your posts are fantastic I wish I had that sort of patience

Thanks John, it gives me a better perspective of the box and also the angles of the lid

Bad news from last evening, the autumn temperatures have dropped here in the UK and three of the lids needed more timber to build up to size and the glue had not set (titebond3) in the usual 30 mins.
I went out to put the pieces of timber away and a piece fell off. So only have 5 lids available this morning.
But I have got the domino box or my table saw to play with today!

Two of the lid pieces are short on width so I have built up to accommodate the triangle.





I have now got all 6 pieces cut and roughly fitted to centre space, did need some recuts and further attention is going to be required but will give it a rest for a few days just incase something springs to mind that might be missed if I go straight for a glue up. Thinking knobs, beadings etc.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with Wendy - I think it is looking great!

FWIW I wouldn't put any beading on inlay on it - the contrast from the variety of the timbers could be undermined by something like that.

Are you going to put knobs on the lids? I was just thinking that they could be somewhat dificult to lift (esp the centre one) without something on top to grab.

Jeremy, you are giving me problems, knobs for all those lids!

You have 2 great interesting projects going here. This is turning out nicely and some very pretty stock!

Corey

JOW, it looks like the middle box is removable?

If so, I'll 'bump' a suggestion I made earlier... drill a hole through the lid and fasten the handle to the bottom of the box instead, sorta like a tent pole.

This'd allow you to lift the box out of the outer ring by the handle, then remove the lid by grasping it's edges.