Thread: Another tissue box session May 2013

My wife brought home some boxes of tissues last week and the opening is rectangular instead of oval.
I dont know if this is just Coles brand or if it is a leap in tissue box technology

Interesting, what was the depth of tissues and were they around 250 mm across.?

The box contains 224 2 ply tissues 20cm x 19.5cm

The box is
22cm long
11.5 cm wide
10.5 cm high

The opening is 13cm long x 5 cm wide with radiused corners

Originally Posted by jow104

Prepared another two boards, Maple & American black walnut as per picture should have been enough for ten tissue boxes but.............................

But all is not as it should be.


That maple would only cut one direction at the bandsaw, it would drift off sawblade if attempted opposite end. Even putting through the P/T could only be done with many sleight cuts, but there is one piece that has an interesting grain and discolouration.

Anyway tied the stuff down on the tablesaw with some weights for the day, that should keep it quiet.

A bit of a PITA. Did it settle down overnight John?

It looks like there won't be much bow anyway, by the time they're cut to length. You could try hand-planing the last bit out after cutting them to length maybe?

(After cutting to length, I'd run them through the wide drum sander bow upwards first to flatten one side, then dish upwards. I've had to do a bit of that lately with the Merbau I've been resawing. It bows at every cut. Heaps of internal tension)

Thanks Clinto & Hermit,
This time timber has not really settled down, whether it me or the weather playing up but I knuckled down and made some progress yesterday.


I need to make a deeper holding tissue box for a forum friend and prepared this arrangement of abw and american ash. Because of the timber problems mentioned it was eventually got under control but its thickness has been reduced to under 8mm thick.

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Work started on those maple boards as well and above mentioned box carcass built up but will need splines if it is to survive its long distance destination I fear.

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Originally Posted by jow104

Thanks Clinto & Hermit,
This time timber has not really settled down, whether it me or the weather playing up but I knuckled down and made some progress yesterday.

I need to make a deeper holding tissue box for a forum friend and prepared this arrangement of abw and american ash. Because of the timber problems mentioned it was eventually got under control but its thickness has been reduced to under 8mm thick.

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Work started on those maple boards as well and above mentioned box carcass built up but will need splines if it is to survive its long distance destination I fear.

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I won my battle with the Merbau. By the time I laminated it with some Tasmanian Oak, it stiffened up and didn't bow with the following cuts. (Making a 2-drawer bandsawn box at the moment and didn't want the drawer inside cutouts closing up at all or the drawers would have been too loose a fit. I'll post a pic in the BS Boxes section when I'm done.)

That Maple/American Black Walnut combo looks good. Plenty of contrast.

Regarding splines on the other box, although it's more work they do make a box look better, especially with contrasting coloured splines.

Got out the jig which I use for cutting the spline slots on the tissue box carcass. I hope the photograph is self explanatory.

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The slots were cut and contrasting splines have been tapped and glued in place with some ash into the abw sections.

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There are now seven box carcasses ready for further work, tops will be varied because six are going to our local surgery as gifts and that will possibly make them more individual.

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With reference to cutting and resawing on the bandsaw here is a picture of an offcut resawn from a piece of ash (under 2mm thick) you can see that the bandsaw is cutting accurately and to me it means that the maple (mentioned earlier in thread) that only cuts in one direction is most probably a rogue bit of timber so sometimes drift on a bandsaw might not be a poor setup but timber which is playing up.

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Originally Posted by jow104

With reference to cutting and resawing on the bandsaw here is a picture of an offcut resawn from a piece of ash (under 2mm thick) you can see that the bandsaw is cutting accurately and to me it means that the maple (mentioned earlier in thread) that only cuts in one direction is most probably a rogue bit of timber so sometimes drift on a bandsaw might not be a poor setup but timber which is playing up.

I'm inclined to agree. It seems to happen more with softer woods. Had a bit of run-off resawing some kauri last week, it seemed to want to cut more across the grain. Did some jarrah today with no problems.

Cleaned up the splines and did some roundover to edges and sanded with 80 & 120 grits.
Found a piece of ash and abw to make the top, but the lady at home wants a shopping expedition, transportation and dinner prepared as well today so progress delayed.

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Oh and I have got some more boards prepared to complete other boxes.

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As mentioned above, the lady had me tied down yesterday, so all I managed was to cut and fit splines to six boxes.

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So I have got a sanding session due when there is some dry weather around, (dont sand in shed any longer, it makes it too dusty) however I can get going on some tops.

They're shaping up well, John.

Originally Posted by jow104

....So I have got a sanding session due when there is some dry weather around, (dont sand in shed any longer, it makes it too dusty) ......

I tend to do the same with the flat pieces that I create but on the lathe it's a bit of, ah well i clean it up later.

To be honest it was difficult to get some motivation with the weather we had yesterday, even got wet getting to the toolshed and that was only eight feet away.

However I did make up six tops over two sessions, one lot of tops of abw to fit the maple carcasses and three others of maple for the abw boxes.

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For the past three years I have created around one hundred pairs of these cutouts and they go into the waste bin, we do not burn timber here and I cannot think of some way to use up this wastage, any ideas?

Originally Posted by jow104

For the past three years I have created around one hundred pairs of these cutouts and they go into the waste bin, we do not burn timber here and I cannot think of some way to use up this wastage, any ideas?

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That's a hard one John. They're an awkward shape & size to make use of. You could possibly glue each pair together to make an oval, then laminate the ovals together vertically and shape them to make table lamps. You have a lathe, don't you? (Oval base, round pillar.) Just a thought, and probably not a very good one. I'm sure someone else will think of a better use.