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30th May 2019, 12:32 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Black Wattle - Red Oak box
Have just completed another box for my sister in Sydney. We are both congenitally deaf, waste of time going to the movie theatre, so any movies I download or copy, I find subtitles if necessary and merge them to the movie. I then send her a copy on a Blu-ray disc which can hold many movies at a time. The discs are scattered around her loungeroom, and I offered to make a box to hold them. This is the result, and will hold up to 70 thin DVD cases stood on edge.
The box is made of 11mm thick Black Wattle (Acacia mangium) with a floating Red Oak lid, lid lift and mitre splines (slipfeathers). Overall dimensions are 370W x 170 D x 150H. The box is finished with Kunos #244 Oil, the base is lined with hard wearing casino green pool table cloth.
I have used brass plated 6mm wide strap hinges and brass handles. Because the Red Oak lid is a fairly uniform colour over a relatively large area, and appearance varies with the angle of the light, I inlaid a 40mm mother of pearl disc to break it up a bit.
Not really happy about the combination of timbers after seeing the finish. Perhaps a light coloured lid, like Huon Pine, would have been better. But, it works
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30th May 2019, 02:09 PM #2Senior Member
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Not really happy about the combination of timbers after seeing the finish.
I'm not familiar with Red Oak, and I'm no timber expert, but for me that looks like Silky Oak.
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30th May 2019, 02:35 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Well Feckit, you are not far off the mark. It is quite like NSO to work with, and has the wide open grain that is difficult to fill, but it has the characteristic of cells collapsing while it dries, and with a 100 x 100 post you end up with each side concave so you might get an 80 x 80 post.
Botanical Name
Carnarvonia araliifolia F.Muell. var. araliifolia
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6: 81. Type: In silvis montium circum sinum Rockinghams Bay. J. Dallachy..
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Oak, Caledonian; Oak, Red; Caledonian Oak; Caledonian Silky Oak; Red Oak; Oak, Caledonian Silky; Red Silky Oak; Oak, Red Silkyregards,
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30th May 2019, 05:45 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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Hey Dengy,
Very nice looking box there, very impressive indeed, your sister will be stoked with that I reckon. For your pearl inlay did you use one of those template followers that you put on the bottom of your plunge router. ( I sold my triton plunge router recently).
Also I reckon the blokes down at your local pub wouldnt be too happy having a large rectangle piece of their pool table cloth cut off their pool table,.
Paul
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Another really lovely box, Joe I like the clean lines and the understated lid lift. I also agree that the top looks particularly good with the Mother of Pearl disc. I have no doubt your sister will be extremely proud of this.
Choice of timbers is always the hard part isn’t it? Lately I’ve been leaning towards complementary colour tones - for example with a piece of Red Oak like this for a top I might think of a plain timber such as jarrah for the main box. My thinking being that the jarrah would act as a frame to show off the top rather than compete for attention. I’m also rather in love with ‘campaign’ style handles at the moment, the sort that were used on officers’ furniture when they donned their pith helmets and headed out to the tropics - for example https://www.horton-brasses.com/campaign-hardware.asp
Great to see you back here, Joe, after the appalling weather conditions up your way earlier in the year!
Keep well,
Brian
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30th May 2019, 07:09 PM #8GOLD MEMBER
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hi Paul, thanks for your comments. I actually bought a 40mm diameter Forster drill bit that flattens the bottom of the hole, does the job nicely, but is difficult to get the depth exactly right so I drill a bit deeper and use epoxy to fill the gap under the MoP disc.
And I don’t muck about Paul, I take the whole pool table covering. You might have seen the beer stains in one of the photosregards,
Dengy
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31st May 2019, 12:06 AM #9GOLD MEMBER
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Hey Dengy, great reply.
So obviously you buy a MOP disc with a 40mm diameter, very nice. Talking about pool tables, I used to have a 1920 Heiron & Smith billiard table. My Dad bought it second hand when I was 5 (about 1954). I got it from Dad just before he died. I knew it was 1920 as when I used to work in Sydney near Wynyard I used to go to a shop that Eddie Charlton owned that sold billiard tables and accessories. This would be about 1973.
Eddie used to be always practising down the back. A very elderly chap used to work on the counter and he got me to write down the exact writing on the brass plate so he knew the precise year from that, plus the shape of the legs. At the time I was getting a few quotes on having it fully re cushioned, re clothed, re pocketed etc. But alas I sold the table when we moved up here 20 years ago, just was too large for this house.
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Very nice indeed. I like the look of the proud lid insert. I'm looking at doing one on a box i'm working on at the moment.
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31st May 2019, 09:08 AM #11GOLD MEMBER
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I like the look of the proud lid insert.regards,
Dengy
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19th September 2019, 04:50 PM #12The Livos lady
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Just stunning!!
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19th September 2019, 05:36 PM #13GOLD MEMBER
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Thanks Angela, glad you like it.
regards,
Dengy
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