Thread: My dotty tissue box

Third and final corners have glued up OK, nearly took the box to bed with me, superglue must have leaked on to my fingers.

Originally Posted by chrisb691

Have a look here Anne-Marie, and all will be explained.

Thanks for that, they are so neat!

I think it is going well.



Cleaned up the corners, did some handwork for a change, I must recommend the Tormek wet sharpening system, I suspect the others are good as well, I have never had such pleasure with a plane after the last sharpening session, I just stroked the work and it was really smooth.

Hoping to fit on the lid aperture today, debating whether to go for a dark top with white spots or give it a rest?

HI Jow
I think a dark timber would look classy, with a 50mm round aperture for the tissues.
Looking great
Cheers Wardy

Lovely to see all those thing curly shavings. I think a plain dark top would look fantastic, but it depends on what you have in the bin.

Found a reject piece of black walnut, marked it up with gauge at 1/2" from both sides and got a nice cutting line guide to run using the bandsaw, just keep the blade within those gauge lines and I have two very usable bits of timber.



Went to clean up on the thicknesser and I got some snipe, but I was happy to hand plane it out after last nights experience with the newly sharpened blade. BTW the snipe was caused I think because the thicknesser table was dirty, wiped some beeswax over the table and the next sample piece of timber planed without snipe, so there you are.



Took me half an hour at least to find this set of free hole saws (came in one of those free drill sets on a purchase). Never used one before so did a trial run, glad I did, double sided tape would not hold in place.



So I screwed the waste internal cut down.





Got a nice cut out on this trial run. However I will have to elongate the lid piece with a jig saw.



Back tomorrow.

Originally Posted by jow104

Back tomorrow.

So will I.

Enthusiasm got the better of me and I went out to the W/S again in the evening when the lid timber glue up was set.

Cut the 2" hole as per trial run earlier in the day, and then had to go hunting for my jig saw blades, last used I think 12 years ago when doing the kitchen worktop with primitive tools.
So cut the elongated hole free hand and it seems to work on a tissue box.



Going back today to fit lid in carcass and the final sand, might even get the shellac and wax on today.

Got the lid glued on, did a cleanup of all faces and put a roundover bit on lid and aperture.



Gave it a coat of shellac outside because of the sanding earlier and will then wax tomorrow.



I have started another T/B using the same oak but it has got some check cracks, do you think I can fill cracks later and the timber remain stable?

The dotty box looks great, the timbers really contrast nicely.

OK here it is with applied photographic composition.




Put the last two together.



(My get my tripod out and the 10mp camera set up and try again)

Both look great John.

Very nice work.