A diamond pattern tissue box

**jow104** · 13th June 2010, 03:50 AM

Timbers are tobe Maple and sapele.

Started Friday evening, it was too warm in the shed during the daytime.

Got out some sapele and maple

Did some stripping, (the purple heart board is there as a spacer to enable the crown guard to drop down inside the fence)

Obtained 12 strips.

Restarted Saturday afternoon in the warm shed!

Cut 4 diamonds shapes by hand, the pieces were too small for me on a machine.

Then found I needed some more maple stock so cut a short length off the plank to reduce weight.

Put through the bandsaw and then machined on the planer/thicknesser ready for another start hopefully Monday.

**munruben** · 13th June 2010, 09:31 AM

This will be an interesting design. Look forward to seeing its progress.

**Fencepost2** · 13th June 2010, 03:03 PM

Going to be nice. But is it really 28 degrees in Devon? I thought the Gulf Stream was being diverted and everyone freezing over there.

**jow104** · 15th June 2010, 03:35 AM

Prepared the maple boards, (only got five pieces off the block this time)

laid out the strips to prepare for cutting to lengths.

Set the twelve pieces on my sled to cut all to equal lengths.

Then chickened out and only cut 6 lengths at a time, didnt fancy the holding position on the sled.

finished up with 24 lengths.

Then stopped for the days session, had a heavy day yesterday, went to a neighbours retirement party and played the keyboard for three hours and that zonked me.

Computer going to the doctors in the morning to have Windows xp with service pack 3 loaded direct from a windows disk. The patch update is not satisfactory for loading some new software when needed.

**jow104** · 18th June 2010, 05:48 PM

I have handcut strips and fitted in diamond shapes.

They have cleaned up OK.

Box carcass glued and shaping up ok.

The lid is also in preparation.

**artme** · 18th June 2010, 07:14 PM

Wondering how that design woul look with an elongated diamond as the openimg in the top.

**jow104** · 18th June 2010, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by artme

Wondering how that design woul look with an elongated diamond as the openimg in the top.

Thanks for the idea, or you might do one yourself?

**artme** · 20th June 2010, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by jow104

Thanks for the idea, or you might do one yourself?

Probably not as a tissue box.

**Woody1** · 20th June 2010, 09:06 PM

Woody UK
I just love to see work in progress photos because I learn so much from them.
Your design is beatuiful, I love the 2 contrasting colours and the diamond
Thank you for sharing
Cheers

**jow104** · 20th June 2010, 10:06 PM

Woody1, its a pleasure for me as well. Wait til you see the next one started this morning, its got some Aussie timber which I think is redgum.

**Woody1** · 20th June 2010, 10:43 PM

I will look forward to it

Cheers

**jow104** · 25th June 2010, 02:13 AM

Completed the diamond pattern tissue box apart from shellac and waxing which will be done tonight when its cooler.

(Couldn't resist putting it on the wife's laptop table

)

The veneered box is awaiting the present heatwave to die down.

**munruben** · 27th June 2010, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by jow104

Couldn't resist putting it on the wife's laptop table

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Show off

Nice work mate

**Christos** · 2nd July 2010, 12:54 AM

Very nice work.

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