Thread: A bit of old firewood

Fabulous. Great design.

Originally Posted by Rattrap

Very nice job peter, can u explain how u went about doing those spectacular mitered corners to the lid?

Hi Rattrap ,
Sorry I do not have pics during construction but here goes .The frame of my lid was 12mm thick , and i cut slots in the miters of the lid frame and for the raised lid with a 3mm slotting bit using a miter sled . I use the word "sled" loosely.The slots were 8mm deep


Starting with a piece of wenge 16mmx,.20mm , I used my router table to progressively cut 4 rebates in the wenge to make a cruciform ,making the wings on the cruciform 8mmx3mm and then cut that into 4 lengths.
I then made 2 pieces shown in the drawing below to allow me to clamp the cruciform while i made miter cuts using my Japanese saw which has a blade without any set on the teeth . The cruciforms required a bit of sanding and fine tuning to get the fit right.

Thanks for that peter, wow i didn't realise that the dark corner pieces were all 1 piece!

Lovely, Lovely stuff. Nice job on the finish

Beautiful box, and nicely made and finished. Please.... NO handles.
Jim

Not only is the wood impressive, but the lid corners, and the shaped body corners are mightily good!!

I'll add to the chorus of no handle...

M

It is a most beautiful box as it is ...no handles
les