Started to make a box from the coast banksia that I showed in the timber forum.
Pic. 1. Selected the pieces to use and dressed a face and an edge on each piece. Labeled them.
Pic. 2. Bandsawed to little over finished thickness. This will leave me with some nice pieves of veneer for another job.
Pic. 3. Oops! When I resawed the back & front of the lid frame, a knot that I had planned to use as a feature turned out to be loose. I still want to use it, so it will have to be fixed.
Pic. 4 The myrtle burl that I want to use as the lid panel also has some holes that need filling, so I'll do them all with casting resin. This stuff is very thin & runny, so I've stuck some bits of scrap to the underside using hot-melt glue. This should stop it leaking through.
Pic. 5. On the other side, I've built 'dams' around the holes so I can over fill them with resin, as it does shrink a bit as it sets. Built similar dams on the lid frame pieces.