Huon viking longship jewelry box WIP

**xgrain** · 24th July 2012, 09:08 AM

Hi all
Another little work in progress is the Huon Pine viking ship jewelry box. I made a prototype out of plywood (see post in bandsaw boxes) which was successful enough to spur me onto the real thing. I did decide tho that i would not bandsaw the innards on this one tho, opting for a routered centre. I will build a deck which will be the lid of the box.

I was given a piece of laminated huon offcut and decided to cut it horizontal. Either way I was going to end up with a glue line on the bow and stern so it may as well be horizontal. This offcut was not square so the first port of call was to square it up.

I made some templates of paper using inkscape and bitmap tracing a viking ship.

I then carbon paper copied them onto the wood. In an effort to keep at least a face square with the bandsaw table I progressed the cuts as follows:
draw the side view and cut the top off.
redraw the sides (top view)..because i just cut the drawing off

now the bow and stern curves.
and finally with the table set at 5deg tapering the top to the bottom I cut the sides.

We now have the basic shape.

Next will be to router out the rebate which the lid/deck will sit on and then the internals of the box itself.

now cut the sides off

**Durham Lad** · 24th July 2012, 08:54 PM

Interesting project, will look for the next installment.

**xgrain** · 25th July 2012, 09:18 AM

Righto
Laminated, what will be the deck, last night. Its some walnut 10x10mm billets I had left over from arrow making. I should have taken more time to square these up but I thought as i was going to re square after laminating it wouldnt matter. But when it came to glueup I had to apply a fair bit of pressure to get them together. some had cusps and bows. We will just have to wait.
Hind site now tells me if I had precut them a little thinner I would have had less opposition to form and it might have looked more to scale.

Also a picture of the beginnings of the internals route.
Ship is dble sided taped to a ply scrap which is clamped to the table. Router on quick nockup skis and a couple of spacers so I can get depth but clear ship.

**Durham Lad** · 25th July 2012, 10:05 AM

All going tp plan, will be sailing in no time.

**crowie** · 25th July 2012, 08:02 PM

I'm on for a sail on this boat.....

**xgrain** · 26th July 2012, 09:31 AM

Righto sandpaper for drum sander arrived(thanks sandman) so I can get on and cleanup the deck lams once I get the paper installed on the drum. Short nights really bothering me. I dont have space/air quality for equipment to run in the shed I have to drag it outside under lights.

more routing done tho

The deck has a 3mm lip to sit on and will be flush with the gunnels, thus it will protrude down into the cavity about 5mm(8mm thick all up). This will allow me to scoop out the deck a little from the edge to center so its not just a boring flat deck but a bit more realistic.

Im not sure how to I'm going to get the, deck lip sides, nice n clean with the inside of the gunnels as yet. The gunnels lip was hand routed. I should have made templates that I could then use to cut the deck piece out. Might have to back track.Original thought was to make a paper imprint and use that to cut oversize then hand sand it back to fit.

The pressure is off, I was trying to get this finished by the 4th, even if I got the chopping done now the finishing would take a week because of drying times and coats so rather than rush Im going to council work it(go slow). Tis a shame I reckon another week and Idv made it home.

**AlexS** · 27th July 2012, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by xgrain

Im not sure how to I'm going to get the, deck lip sides, nice n clean with the inside of the gunnels as yet. The gunnels lip was hand routed. I should have made templates that I could then use to cut the deck piece out. Might have to back track.Original thought was to make a paper imprint and use that to cut oversize then hand sand it back to fit.

Carbon paper or tracing paper may be your friend.

**Hermit** · 28th July 2012, 12:21 PM

Very interesting project. I'm looking forward to seeing how it progresses.
Looking good so far.

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