new pencil box april 2010

**jow104** · 5th April 2010, 06:55 PM

A glorious start to a new project, and a pencil box gift requested by an art member friend of mine.

window open.

temp.15C and humidity below 70% ( season can stay like that till Nov.with pleasure)

I had cut off a 4x3" length of sycamore, previous week, and now taken off a section for a pencil box, leaving a long enough piece for tissue boxes to come later.

Set the planer to give me a second square edge (The timber came one surface clean)

came off the planer square and flat.

Over to the bandsaw and put a clamp to secure my fence, because a 4x3 can push my lightweight fence around.

However my good mood is now on the wane after the clean up of the bandsaw cut and the timber going through the thicknesser.
It doesnt look very nice does it?

On top of that poor start and the second piece cut and I get this.

So I clamped the pieces together and put some pressure on them for the rest of the day.

I paid over £38 per cu.ft for that sycamore and it looks like the first 250mm is rubbish. Do you think I should request a discount and credit from the supplier.

**jow104** · 6th April 2010, 09:33 PM

Because the timber is unstable I am putting in some decorative pieces hoping box will be more stable when in use. So glued up carcass pieces as such.

This morning I had to hand plane the bow out of the pieces then I put it through the thicknesser..

When putting thin pieces of timber through the thicknesser and the grain is questionable I put a thin batten either side of the machine table in case the timber twists whilst machining and crashes into the side of the machine and then gets tangled up with the blades.

Anyway I have glued up the carcass and holding my breath, I fully expect to have to stitch up the corner mitres with reinforcing cross splines after the box as dried.

**benupton** · 6th April 2010, 10:29 PM

Looking nice so far.

**jow104** · 7th April 2010, 05:52 PM

BTW, the box is a disaster, I shall most probably use this one in the workshop myself for some tool storeage, and make another for my friend.

I really did want to match the sycamore tho, there are ten other boxes (made on the same lines as this current one) used by an art group, we keep our tube paints standing in these boxes in an upwarward orientation.

**Old farmer** · 7th April 2010, 07:43 PM

I think you are hard on yourself, jow 104. Am sure you will have the box looking very well with finish.

**jow104** · 8th April 2010, 01:42 AM

A little happier this afternoon, I got out the chisel and disguised this bad corner (bottom corner of box only)

same corner after chisel work.

Then I put it to the belt sander to disguise the faces, and cleaned it up- with a rotary sander.

I only hope my friend doesnt have any offspring with a try square checking corners.

**munruben** · 9th April 2010, 09:18 AM

Looks good

**jow104** · 9th April 2010, 05:42 PM

The latest is that the box has stayed stable, it has been in a centrally heated room for around 48 hours and not playing up. Perhaps it was only timber stress. I will take it out to the workshop in a different atmosphere and see what happens in the next 24 hours.

**jow104** · 12th April 2010, 08:47 PM

I have tidied up pencil box and given it a coat of white polish, I will warn recipient that joints might spring because timber is either not seasoned enough or there is timber stress.

Although this is called a pencil box it is actually going to store watercolur tubes of paint in a vertical condition.

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