Thread: Just finished bandsawn box course

Nice Bob. I saw Allans work on the weekend. Wish I had the time to attend a couple of those classes. I hope to do a course with Doug Moseley the blacksmith from the expo, when they set it up.

He had a lot of people interested in his work on the Saturday of the expo. You should have fun on the course judging by the time I spent watching him - facinating!

Where are the results Bob?

Sir Stink, I will take some photos tomorrow and post. There were six on the course and we all made the same small box. This took most of the first day with some finishing done on the second. We then selected a project of our choosing from a selection pf drawings provided. As we really only had half a day for this, we left with the cutting out done and the project to be finished at home. I am almost there. Another project is running interference at the moment.

HI BOB
It will be good to see some pics of your two days with allan.
regards john.

I look forward to seeing what was produced.

Sorry about no pics. Had two attempts at putting them up and each time was advised that a security token was missing, so no dice.Never seen this before and had no problems before. Since last lot of pics went up I have changed to Windows7 and the latest version of Bitdefender for the firewall and virus checker. Anyone got any ideas.

Hi Bob,

No idea about you uploading issue unfortunately but you could upload onto a photo sharing site, such as Photobucket and link to your photos there.

Stinky

How many pics are you loading? Some times splitting them over a couple of posts helps.
Regards

Tried to upload the photos again from an XP system using an older version of Bitdefender. This has been attempted from three different systems now. Starting to think that the problem is not at this end. Can upload photos to other sites. Time for maybe a moderator to get invovled.

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Gooday Bob. Are you trying to post them in their original size, i.e. 1.3 MB?

If so they need to be resized. That is what I did to the one above.

Our software cannot shrink them if they are too big.

Thanks . I usually do resize my images. However, I thought that I had done direct uploads from this camera in the past. Guess that I was wrong - or a senior moment

The first two images are of the box that we all made. With the general introduction, instructions, and questions, this box took about a day and a half. I suspect that if I was to do one now it would take a couple of hours up to the finishing stage. Possibly less.

The remaining images are of a project that I chose. Others did different designs. As we only had half a day left with Alan the goal was to get it cut out to be finished at home. This is as far as I have got. Still have to apply the finish.

Hi Bob ..... well worth the wait for the images.

The first one looks like a good design to start with however I am not a huge fan of the form.

As for the second one ..... that is a real winner and I love it. It looks as if you have done a fine job on both, but I am really taken by the second.

I would love to see further progressions / advancements on the second form when you start your third.

Cheers

Stinky.

As mantioned Stinky, the first was just a basic box to get us going and to learn the technique. Obviously I liked the second design as that is the reason I chose it. Whilst I do have another design of Alan's, I am basically on my own now. My biggest problem at the moment is timber. Not being a bandsaw box maker I don't have any big lumps of wood to work with - everything is a slab!