Three on the go

[jow104]

My wife feels I have been neglecting her friends so I have got another three boxes underway.

Prepared some maple on the bandsaw, I am going to make this set of boxes with three saws already set up from the last diagonal box, this means I do not have to keep changing the fence and can maintain stock measurements.
However there is a pleasant surprise on the way.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/23w-8.jpg

I have a home made workstation for the mitre crosscut saw, this is going to be used to cut boards to set lengths.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/24w-8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/25w-7.jpg

Boards cut to lengths, but the pleasant surprise is that the waste offcuts look interesting, I can feel a new pattern design coming from them, vertical stripes and contrasts!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/26w-6.jpg

Plus some BWalnut for contrasts.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/27w-6.jpg

Gluing up underway on the workstation board using screwed and clamped holding sticks. ( some of the screwed ones have been swung on a screw to apply tension. ) Got all three sets glued up, changed them over each hour.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/28w-6.jpg

Got to go gardening today before the wet weather expected comes in. The wife as got runnerbeans 12" high in pots ready for planting out.

[Hermit]

An assembly line! You'll need to hire workers soon.

You make 4 boxes more quickly than I can clean up the outside of one of my shaped ones.

Keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the offcuts.

... Steve

[munruben]

Nice work John, looking great.:2tsup::2tsup:

[jow104]

It was a bad day in the workshop yesterday. Some of that prepared timber, maple, I had forgotten was very difficult, last year I had buried it in the store area because it will not work very well.

So two of the boxes look like they have spent their life on the moon, the timber planes up and the appearance looks like those craters you see.

I changed the planer/thicknesser blades thinking it was about time anyway, (three years on the go) that takes me a couple of hours, glad I got the manual out, I had forgotten those mounting lugs on the blade holder, could easily have forgotten all about them.

Then I found the rubber drive belt has stretched after only 6 months use and 6 months storeage off during the last winter. So there is slippage.

Ran a solid piece of Iroko through the thicknesser and that came up with a furniture finish, so blades went in OK. I do not use any jig to set the blades, just an aluminum ruler laying between two wooden blocks and then can watch the ruler slide along 5mm past a block edge.

So these three boxes are going to have a good sanding 60 grit to clean them up.

[Hermit]

It was a bad day in the workshop yesterday. Some of that prepared timber, maple, I had forgotten was very difficult, last year I had buried it in the store area because it will not work very well.

So two of the boxes look like they have spent their life on the moon, the timber planes up and the appearance looks like those craters you see.

I changed the planer/thicknesser blades thinking it was about time anyway, (three years on the go) that takes me a couple of hours, glad I got the manual out, I had forgotten those mounting lugs on the blade holder, could easily have forgotten all about them.

Then I found the rubber drive belt has stretched after only 6 months use and 6 months storeage off during the last winter. So there is slippage.

Ran a solid piece of Iroko through the thicknesser and that came up with a furniture finish, so blades went in OK. I do not use any jig to set the blades, just an aluminum ruler laying between two wooden blocks and then can watch the ruler slide along 5mm past a block edge.

So these three boxes are going to have a good sanding 60 grit to clean them up.

I've been having the same problem all day planing a flat area with grain that reverses direction constantly. Fun, isn't it?
(Pays off in the end, though, because when finished it looks much nicer than boring, straight grain.)
I finished off with 180 glued to a sheet of perspex and lots of elbow grease.

Keep up the good work.

... Steve

[Christos]

Watching this one.

[jow104]

To display the problem I had with this particular piece of maple see picture.



After an hour of orbital sanding with 60 & 120 grit the appearance was restored.

Hope to finish the three boxes today.

[Hermit]

Looking good, mate. I really do like the pinstripe.
I think I'll have to borrow it for my next project. (Already half-planned.)

... Steve

[jow104]

Looking good, mate. I really do like the pinstripe.
I think I'll have to borrow it for my next project. (Already half-planned.)

... Steve

The waste bits might be more intresting?????

[Hermit]

The waste bits might be more intresting?????

They often are. I have a garage-full of small interesting waste bits. Great for inlays, hinges etc.

Regarding the pinstripe, I can see a double-pinstripe on my next box - one near the top edge and one near the bottom. A QLD Maple main body and Jarrah pinstripe.

... Steve

[jow104]

Look forward to seeing that one.:;

[Hermit]

Look forward to seeing that one.:;

Similar construction to the current one, but heart-shaped.

[jow104]

Didnt manage to finish, cold weather delayed gluing and ...............

However cut the tissue lids using a jig saw again to avoid changing the blade on the bandsaw, must find a method using a preshaped jig, any ideas welcome for use with a jigsaw.


The lids glued and will be put to the router for roundovers and underside rebating to fit carcass.

[chrisb691]

A router with guide, and template. Or make a cnc? :D

[jow104]

A router with guide, and template. Or make a cnc? :D

I've got the 1/2" triton router and never purchased the guides, I would really like to use the jigsaw so still looking for ideas.

[Hermit]

I've got the 1/2" triton router and never purchased the guides, I would really like to use the jigsaw so still looking for ideas.

You could possibly make up a jig similar to a plunge router that holds the jigsaw, then make templates to suit, but far easier to use a router. Got a press? With a good metal cutter, they'd press out. (I'm not really serious.)

[jow104]

fHIT

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/5w-27.jpg

I dont quite know what happened, I think the guide wheel on the roundover router bit rode up and the cutter dug in, the timber is only 7mm thick and there is not much timber for the wheel to ride on.

Anyway dont tell the misses.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/6w-25.jpg

I cut a new aperture.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/7w-25.jpg

And I ended up like this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/8w-26.jpg

Looked around for a piece of waste to make the bottom sliders and this piece nearly fitted the bill, its 4mm thick and the rebate was cut with a 4mm cutter so I am going to reduce its thickness.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/devonwoody/9w-24.jpg

Put on the safety glasses and stood back around 6 ft., I should have worn ear muffs as well, but it came out the other end perfect.

[Hermit]

Good save with the aperture.
Still looking good.

[Dengue]

thanks for posting the pics. Do you have any where you are clamping the boxes when gluing the 4 sides together? Did you just use a 45 degree glued joint for each corner?

[jow104]

thanks for posting the pics. Do you have any where you are clamping the boxes when gluing the 4 sides together? Did you just use a 45 degree glued joint for each corner?

Hello.

If you go back to my first box of this seaon.

http://www.woodworkforums.com/f87/first-box-2012-a-150206/

Post number 9 the last three pictures will most probably be the best information I can pass on.

The four pieces of the carcass are laid on masking tape sticky side up, to glue in position lift up the left hand side first and fold the box into shape, the final end, pull the tape over to the first end and the box rectangle is formed.

No need for clamps. (the corners are mitred)

AlexS first introduced this method to the forum I reckon about 7 years ago.

Regarding measurements I will get out my chart of sizes when I venture out to the workshop, its only 1C temp. here at the moment.

[jow104]

All above are now ready to finish with an external coat of shellac and wax polish and will be posted shortly.

Delay because I am attempting to create a new design and my head is spinning again.

Vertical patterns have not met my expectations on past boxes.

So I think I will go for a panelled design.