Thread: Why not give it a go?

hi rumnut,
nice box for first try no you won't need a bobbin sander, if you use 1/8 14 tpi blade that will give you a reasonable smoothe cut and very little hand sanding, by the look of your box draw i think it needs to be rounded over to blend into the box carcass, i make my draw fronts about 10/12mm thick that gives me more wood to round over,
john.

John I can see that now thanks for the tip

Nice looking box.

I also tried my first one. Needed a 50th birthday present.

Its not my design, found it on the web and liked the shape.

I can see many more of these in my future.

The timber is "Vexillum sepem agmen".

Looks like big fish jumping over a boat shape to me??

nice work Fly
I love light coloured timber with knots in it.
What did you line the drawers with
Cheers
Rumnut

Its red felt from lady bunnings with gold glitter in it.
I didn't make ring holders or any of that inside the draws.
I used the part of wood I cut out of the draw to mark/cut the felt.
Then I sprayed contact adhesive onto the back of the felt. Didn't do a great job so I put real contact adhesive on the inside of the box with a ice cream stick.
When dried to tacky I put the sides in, then the bottom strip across.
After that cut any overlap with a scalpel and then rubbed corners with the handle of the plastic scalpel.

Then trimmed to tiny bits at the top with scalpel and used the end of the bottom strips and pushed that into the back of the box to move the draws forward.

The latin that I put above for the timber I am going to write on the bottom is "Standard fence column" (post comes out as post).

Hope that helps.

hello fly,
i think your box is called whale play, nice box its diffacult to glue the felt in the box draw i use different color flock and paint from carrols wood craft supplies its much eaiser.

regards john

Originally Posted by John T

hello fly,
i think your box is called whale play, nice box its diffacult to glue the felt in the box draw i use different color flock and paint from carrols wood craft supplies its much eaiser.

regards john

I'll have to hunt that down if I continue making them.
I did try and find flock at lady bunnings and those junk shops that are everywhere but couldn't find any so that why I went for felt.

And it wasn't that hard. 3 pieces per box, no corners.

Here it is.

Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

Here it is.

As it was my first I just used fence post.

I also forgot to take the back off first so its 2mm ply back there (am I meant to say that).
I pushed each box from the back to find the sweet spot to get the draw open and closed without sticking. Thats why the buttons don't line up, but that cool.

I didn't see a finished one, I found it as an outline in google images under bandsaw boxes.

Thinking of a big fur tree (cedar thing) style one, Each of the big branch lunps would get a box and the trunk would be a thin tall box where the opening would be in the side, give it some pins to hang stuff on and push back in. (does that make sense).
Peter

G'day Rumnut & _fly_

Thanks for posting your first attempts guys. The results are excellent and the finishes you have achieved using ordinary bits of wood is quite amazing. Keep them coming!

Rumnut - as a matter of interest what size blade did you use?

John T - you suggest using a 1/8" blade. Do you have any tips on setup so the blade does not roll off the wheels, as I have asked this question previously with nil feedback. I'm restricted to using a 1/4" blade at this stage due to this setup challenge.

Cheers.
Ray

HI RAY,
yes i do use 1/8 blade which i get from HENRY BROS in sydney, i dont have any trouble with blade tracking i have a 16" bandsaw and it works very well.
john.

Well done both of you both boxes are a good start. Worth keeping to look back on, I did this with my first turning and find how much I have improved since i started. i will do the same with the first Bandsaw box when i get around to making it

[QUOTE=yosam;1503670]G'day Rumnut & _fly_


Rumnut - as a matter of interest what size blade did you use?

The blade I used was a 6mm 6TPI. As it was a new blade it cut like butter & I pehaps went a tad to quick as the cut was suprisingly course. However the object at the start was to learn something & I did.

SHMBO has already claimed it so I probably will have it for a while to look back on.

Cheers
Rumnut

HI RUMNUT,
What i do when i fit a new blade on the bandsaw to cut my bs boxes i hold a rub stone on the back corners of the blade, it helps to turn sharper corners with less burn marks i hope helps.
john.