Thread: A type of lazy susan

I look forward to seeing how this progresses. By the way, if anyone needs help with some plans, let me know as I am an Architect and would be happy to assist anyone needing box plans.

Thanks Spoonman, I have said before that the internet has brought some good things to this modern world, such has your reply above.

Spent the day preparing timber for the six outer boxes and pleased to say that all finished up at 12mm thick and 74mm wide, various lengths but should be enough I hope if there are no mishaps.



The Shelves shown were from our childrens bedrooms made in 1970 and have been stored in the loft the last 23 years. They would have been made by hand (perhaps a black & decker portable clip on circular saw may have been around then) the joints shown were through tenons and wedged.








The last picture shows timbers finished with a few slivers laying on top that are 0.5mm thick after coming of the Triton workcentre. I was thinking I might purchase a tablesaw this week at the Yandles wood show, but how could I improve on that ripping.

Beautiful selection of timbers there.....by the way, where did you get the purple heart and brazillian mahogany.....as, correct me if I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure both of those timbers are endangered species now and are quite hard to get...at least here in Melbourne. Look forward to seeing this project progress. I'm also happy to see you recycling some timber from past furniture....I do the same where I can. Especially on hard rubbish collection days, people throw away unbelievable timber. I just missed grabbing a blackwood solid desk someone was throwing away, someone else just beat me to it.

Thank you Spoonman for your comments.
The Br. Mahogany I purchased (30 mtrs. of 8"x1") over 5 years ago from a builders merchant, they said at the time it was a cancelled contract and I got a bargain. (around 6 mtrs. left on my shelf), There seems tobe a fair amount of Purple heart here in the U.K. at the moment.

Originally Posted by Spoon Man

I'm pretty sure both of those timbers are endangered species now and are quite hard to get...at least here in Melbourne.

If you want pieces suitable for small boxes (or pens), try doing the rounds of decking suppliers. I've seen a couple of 'em that carry Purpleheart decking and have bought a couple of metres for only a few $ per m!

Day off today, I've reached the three score years and ten.

Originally Posted by jow104

Day off today, I've reached the three score years and ten.

If that's your birthday and not the number of boxes you've made

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Had a little rant on another forum, then went and helped the trouble and strife getting ready for the autumn cleanup in the garden.

And then did a dummy run on the boxes using some software battens cut to size fitting the template as shewn below.





Its not proving to be easy because very precise measures are required taking into account angles.

So can anyone out there give me some directions or tips which way they would go?

Does each segment have to be a discrete box?

It might have to come to that.

It's just I was thinking you could hot-melt a couple of strips to a sacrificial piece of ply or MDF at the right spacing, and then you could cut both the matching inside and outside pieces in one pass. Alternating the direction of the cuts would economise on the wood.

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With the MDF/ply still holding them in position, you could fit the sides (spokes?) to complete each segment and later remove the MDF/ply to fasten a base.

Do you follow what I mean? You'd still need to be as accurate as possible, but it reduces the number of cuts, so makes for less chances to screw up... Thinking on it, you might need to fit a block here'n'there between the sides to keep 'em squared to the base, but it's still doable. I think. It's not something I've ever tried...

Thats sounds great advice, I'd been thinking along the lines of something sacrificial.

Anymore bids?

Using the paper pattern I made from the computer I have cut a hardboard template and going to attempt to stick box sides with a temporary type of glue to the hardboard and gluing up the sides with pva and superglue at the same time.

Nailed an old ruler to the bench and used a Stanley knife to cut some of the hardboard to shape. Nailed the ruler down because last year the stanley knife ran across the ruler and my thumbnail and it needed superglue to stick the thumb tip back on.













Cut the template out as per photographs below and had a bonus, I got 4 60x30x90 triangles (forgotten what sort of triangles they are called now)





Put a fence with a 30% cutting line ready to use on box sides.





But still not commited if someone advises me a different way later this evening.