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Thread: I know its just radiata pine...
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14th August 2007, 04:21 PM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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I know its just radiata pine...
... but I like it.
This tool box started as a practice box for using the Leigh 1600 Dovetail Jig, it grew a bit from there.
Approx external dimensions are 275 x 295 x 680 mm, Leigh Dovetail Jig through dovetails, on carcass and tray, wood is Bunnings budget radiata, finish is linseed and tung oil.
Most expensive part is brassware; hinges, hasp and staple and the handles cost around $40 alone !
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14th August 2007, 04:28 PM #2Senior Member
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Hi Cruzi,
Might just be Raidata Pine but it still shows the quality of workmanship that went into it. Looks great to me!!!Cheers
Baz
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14th August 2007, 04:45 PM #3
good one
Looks like a really useful box. Nice workmanship. What are you going to use it for?
"... it is better to succeed in originality than to fail in imitation" (Herman Melville's letters)
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14th August 2007, 04:57 PM #4
Love it!!!
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14th August 2007, 05:33 PM #5
Cruzi, it is an attractive box, the price of the timber should be more expensive with a grain like that.
It you have trouble with the lid bowing at a later date, (put some of that timber left over in a safe place) you can always take the lid off and cut it into strips (reverse the grain each piece) use the scrap you saved and rebuild as a laminated lid. It works for me here in the UK where a lot of our timber is not well seasoned.woody U.K.
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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14th August 2007, 05:40 PM #6
Great looking box, and functional too.
Nothing wrong with radiata if you select your timber properly as you have done.
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14th August 2007, 05:54 PM #7
Looks good from here Cruzi, nothing wrong with that radiata
Cheers
DJ
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14th August 2007, 07:54 PM #8
G'day Cruzi,
Excellent construction. Who cares if its pine....looks bloody good!
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14th August 2007, 08:33 PM #9
Very nice project. The thing to recognize is not what kind of wood you used or what you built, but that the work you've done is high quality. Although it's simple, your attention to detail doesn't pass by without notice.
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14th August 2007, 09:23 PM #10
Great tool box.
I really love everyday items expertly hand crafted. You can work with pride each time you take a tool out of it.
The great thing about it being pine instead of an expensive exotic is you can feel ok using it and banging it around as tool boxes generally are. Over the years it will just look better and better with each nick and dent a silent witness to the labors of the craftsman. With worksmanship like that of those expertly done dovetails it is sure to be a treasured heirloom to be passed down to one of your children, or grandchildren.
Nice one.“When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think...that a time is to come when those (heirlooms) will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ‘See! This our father did for us.’ “ --John Ruskin. Audels Carpenters and Builders Guide, 1923 Theo Audel & CO. New York.
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14th August 2007, 11:20 PM #11
Pine
Pine has never looked so good.
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14th August 2007, 11:29 PM #12
Some people deride pine, but I think it's just fine. The only thing you need is razor sharp tools if you want to cut endgrain.
That box looks fantastic. Quality almost up there with the Pope's coffin.Those are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others.
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15th August 2007, 08:37 AM #13
Good work Cruzi, great effort. Don't knock the pine I have used pine a lot in the past and made some real nice pieces.
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Cheers John
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15th August 2007, 08:45 AM #14Senior Member
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Hey, good looking box - nice joins.
I use a lot of pine - like the colour. I think the only reason radiata pine is looked-down-on (gotta be a better word, but stuffed if I can think of it) is that there is so much of it, it's easy to get and cheap. Bit like rabbits - Aussies don't eat rabbits, there's too many of them (and most of them have ddt or something in their genes) - Poms eat them cos they're harder to get (and cos their cows and sheep are always being... oh stoppit).
Anyway, I like pine. If you want a good two-tone, pine and maple look good.
Cheers,
ChumleyLast edited by Chumley; 15th August 2007 at 08:47 AM. Reason: sp.
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15th August 2007, 08:49 AM #15GOLD MEMBER
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very nice
I always thought radiata is one of the hardest timbers to work and still get a quality looking job - cause of the way the edges crumble. You did it well.
From an environmental standpoint, its good to see someone make something that looks so good from a plantation timber. Its probably all we will be able to get some day.
Arron
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