Thread: Tissue box with a twist

The laminated top is cleaning up quite nicely,I used the hand plane at first to create a reasonably flat surface and then held my breath putting it through the thicknesser a few times and got a very distinctly patterned surface. ( I think something similar could make an attractive occasional table top or other)



The two sections measure up quite well but not regards the matching of stripes because they were glued up randomly.



Made some mouldings to encase the patterned top, this is in the development stage so changes might still take place!

Originally Posted by jow104

I dropped mine yesterday on the concrete floor and it is still in one piece.

Oops!

The laminations did clean up well. I think the random stripe colouring looks good.

Good day yesterday in spite of the bad weather again.

Fittted the top moulding after making corrections.



Whilst the glue was setting, knocked up another three carcasses from prepared timbers, left the original idea on the bench marked with cross, not enough contrast for me.





Back to the box in hand, the moulding fits and displayed with laminations laying in place.




Made a paper patterns for the laminated sections.



Cut the first section to fit, (whoops a corner fell off somewhere but I did eventually find it)



Glued up inside moulding.



This mornings picture and ready to fit to the carcass later today perhaps. (the offcut marked x I am keeping to incorporate hopefully in future carcass side panel!)

Worked well. Even the offcut looks good.

How think is the top?

12mm, you got something in mind?

I guess it looks much thicker from the photos.

I was then thinking that you might be resawing.

Originally Posted by Christos

I guess it looks much thicker from the photos.

I was then thinking that you might be resawing.

Now there's a thought. I'll keep it in mind if I ever do something similar.

Nearly there.



And made these spare parts for future use on the way.

Lamination waste resawn.



around 6mm thick.



And whilst awaiting top lid to set I started the three little beauties.



This one on the end has problems, the mitre keeps breaking when passed over the tablesaw, so I have glued up normally and then cut out the corners on the router table, contrast banding will be fitted to hopefully cure the problem.

Looking good, John. Good to see you're keeping busy while the weather's OK.