Thread: Making a Yew Caddy

Nice Cadillacs

Originally Posted by Ozkaban

Isn't there a pill you can take for this ??

Opinionated visitors or the compulsion to make furniture?

Originally Posted by Ozkaban

I had assumed that you'd have dividers on the inside. I will be interested to see how you end up doing the inside.

As mentioned, the interior will be lined with paper.

WW, I assume the yew moulding slips you mitred and glued on are a sort of lipping around the panel for the lid, so the moulding would be struck into yew wood? Were the two short slips cut cross-grain so they appeared as end grain in the moulding?

Originally Posted by mic-d

WW, I assume the yew moulding slips you mitred and glued on are a sort of lipping around the panel for the lid, so the moulding would be struck into yew wood?

Correct.

Originally Posted by mic-d

Were the two short slips cut cross-grain so they appeared as end grain in the moulding?

All the mouldings are long-grained. Sometimes the moulding round the lids are moulded in-situ in solid timber.

Make a nice man box for the TV remote and 3D glasses

A question WW. Was it really pure lead foil that was used to line tea caddies or was it alloyed with any other metal such as tin?
Magnificent as always.
Cheers,
Jim

Originally Posted by jimbur

A question WW. Was it really pure lead foil that was used to line tea caddies or was it alloyed with any other metal such as tin?
Magnificent as always.
Cheers,
Jim

Pewter would have been somewhat less toxic, but tea caddy foil was pure lead.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

Pewter would have been somewhat less toxic, but tea caddy foil was pure lead.

............could explain why "mad dogs and Englishmen went out in the midday sun"

Originally Posted by Big Shed

............could explain why "mad dogs and Englishmen went out in the midday sun"

Just because I drink tea does not make me mad.

Sometimes very peaceful.

The reproduction arsedine – procured from Optimum Brasses – is copied directly from eighteenth-century examples and cast in period-correct brass alloy.

The paper lining necessitated the underside of the lid to be unobstructed, so I shortened the pommel threads significantly and recessed the pommel nuts into the lid. The nuts were slotted so they could be tightened with a forked screwdriver once within the recesses.

I tidied up the brasses; filing off casting flashes and smoothing away grinding marks before buffing and colouring them.

The fettled and polished arsedine.

After polishing the exterior of the caddy, I attached the handle to the lid and plugged the nut recesses.

Pommel nuts recessed into lid.

The lid was attached to the box with a pair of small brass stop-hinges and the escutcheon was pinned to the front of the caddy.

The caddy, lightly aged.

I made a couple of sheets of combed marbled paper – a popular pattern during the eighteenth-century – and lined the caddy with it using traditional paste made from flour and water.

The stop hinges hold the lid open.

The marbled interior.

I like the Tea Caddy but not a fan on the marble paper. Thank you for the update.

Nice work, sir

Love it you have set a benchmark for my man boxes.

Having been exposed to so much laminate veneered compressed oatmeal over the years, I don't think I have properly appreciated what can be achieved by a master craftsman with material that might otherwise have ended up in the firewood pile.

If you had asked me prior to watching this thread what a veneered box might look like, this is not what would have immediately sprung to mind! When I saw the original in the white, I was nonplussed by what looked to me to be a slice of questionable gum knotted wood glued over some offcuts of pine .

Another beautiful result, aesthetic balance and subtle understatement (lightly aged ).