Thread: Three on the go

An assembly line! You'll need to hire workers soon.

You make 4 boxes more quickly than I can clean up the outside of one of my shaped ones.

Keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the offcuts.

... Steve

Nice work John, looking great.

It was a bad day in the workshop yesterday. Some of that prepared timber, maple, I had forgotten was very difficult, last year I had buried it in the store area because it will not work very well.

So two of the boxes look like they have spent their life on the moon, the timber planes up and the appearance looks like those craters you see.

I changed the planer/thicknesser blades thinking it was about time anyway, (three years on the go) that takes me a couple of hours, glad I got the manual out, I had forgotten those mounting lugs on the blade holder, could easily have forgotten all about them.

Then I found the rubber drive belt has stretched after only 6 months use and 6 months storeage off during the last winter. So there is slippage.

Ran a solid piece of Iroko through the thicknesser and that came up with a furniture finish, so blades went in OK. I do not use any jig to set the blades, just an aluminum ruler laying between two wooden blocks and then can watch the ruler slide along 5mm past a block edge.

So these three boxes are going to have a good sanding 60 grit to clean them up.

Originally Posted by jow104

It was a bad day in the workshop yesterday. Some of that prepared timber, maple, I had forgotten was very difficult, last year I had buried it in the store area because it will not work very well.

So two of the boxes look like they have spent their life on the moon, the timber planes up and the appearance looks like those craters you see.

I changed the planer/thicknesser blades thinking it was about time anyway, (three years on the go) that takes me a couple of hours, glad I got the manual out, I had forgotten those mounting lugs on the blade holder, could easily have forgotten all about them.

Then I found the rubber drive belt has stretched after only 6 months use and 6 months storeage off during the last winter. So there is slippage.

Ran a solid piece of Iroko through the thicknesser and that came up with a furniture finish, so blades went in OK. I do not use any jig to set the blades, just an aluminum ruler laying between two wooden blocks and then can watch the ruler slide along 5mm past a block edge.

So these three boxes are going to have a good sanding 60 grit to clean them up.

I've been having the same problem all day planing a flat area with grain that reverses direction constantly. Fun, isn't it?
(Pays off in the end, though, because when finished it looks much nicer than boring, straight grain.)
I finished off with 180 glued to a sheet of perspex and lots of elbow grease.

Keep up the good work.

... Steve

Watching this one.

To display the problem I had with this particular piece of maple see picture.



After an hour of orbital sanding with 60 & 120 grit the appearance was restored.

Hope to finish the three boxes today.

Looking good, mate. I really do like the pinstripe.
I think I'll have to borrow it for my next project. (Already half-planned.)

... Steve

Originally Posted by Hermit

Looking good, mate. I really do like the pinstripe.
I think I'll have to borrow it for my next project. (Already half-planned.)

... Steve

The waste bits might be more intresting?????

Originally Posted by jow104

The waste bits might be more intresting?????

They often are. I have a garage-full of small interesting waste bits. Great for inlays, hinges etc.

Regarding the pinstripe, I can see a double-pinstripe on my next box - one near the top edge and one near the bottom. A QLD Maple main body and Jarrah pinstripe.

... Steve

Look forward to seeing that one.

Originally Posted by jow104

Look forward to seeing that one.

Similar construction to the current one, but heart-shaped.

Didnt manage to finish, cold weather delayed gluing and ...............

However cut the tissue lids using a jig saw again to avoid changing the blade on the bandsaw, must find a method using a preshaped jig, any ideas welcome for use with a jigsaw.


The lids glued and will be put to the router for roundovers and underside rebating to fit carcass.

A router with guide, and template. Or make a cnc?

Originally Posted by chrisb691

A router with guide, and template. Or make a cnc?

I've got the 1/2" triton router and never purchased the guides, I would really like to use the jigsaw so still looking for ideas.