Thread: Tissue boxes 2011

The harlequins have sanded up quite nicely and you might note I have added runners instead of dadoes for the bottom sliders.



The carcass sides as mentioned previously did bow slightly but not enough to worry about imo.



The lid on this occasion has been glued with overhang and also shows a box referred to as the parthenon awaiting completion of a lid.



Back to the harlequin awaiting a sanding sealer and then a wax and my wife has bagged this one.

How much of an overhang is on this?

Originally Posted by Christos

How much of an overhang is on this?

Around 3mm.




The parthenon box is also nearing completion, I will cut a diamond shaped aperture with lapping for this one.



The wife also keeps herself busy on her embroidery and we compete for wall space.



Anticipating delivery of around 2 cubic feet of maple and black walnut today before the price goes up again.

Everything does not always go smoothly for me, cleaning up the lid on the P/T smashed up one of those short lengths going across the grain so I did the following repair.

Inserted a new piece.






Then had a timber delivery, would you like to price it. nearly 12 feet of 9x2" maple.

and 9ft. of 10 x2 black walnut.



The sunburst box is giving me a problem, I cannot cope with cutting the angles required on my original sketch and don't want to cut the pieces small on the tablesaw.
Any ideas?

Back to the pathenon box, I instigated some changes, first I reduced the height of the carcass because I have decided on a flush fitting lid and I wanted to maintain proportions of horizontal lines and also thought a triangular aperture would be more appropriate to this design.



The carcass height was reduced the same way box makers create their lids, it went well.



The diamond aperture was lipped after making the beading on the router.



The lid glued flush with box and then it will be sanded but no round overs this time to maintain the cubic feel.



Now to the sunburst which I will start a new thread because those that are on dial up might find things slowing down.

Originally Posted by jow104

The sunburst box is giving me a problem, I cannot cope with cutting the angles required on my original sketch and don't want to cut the pieces small on the tablesaw.
Any ideas?

What's the problem? It looks like you can cut the diagonal OK?

You could make the rip- and cross-cuts to quarter it, then stack the four pieces on top of each other, wrapped tightly in tape, to make the diagonal cut in one pass.

(Or build them up into a laminate using PVA and a sheet of brown paper between each layer. This can be easily split apart again using a thin blade and a mallet. )



If you simply don't want to cut pieces that small, you could cut along the diagonal and place the two pieces back together, joining them with masking tape on both sides. Rinse and repeat for all cuts, although you'd have to be pretty damned careful to get them to align properly in the centre.

Doing similar work with a scrollsaw, I've glued sheets of A4 paper on each side at times, to hold really little and fiddly pieces exactly where I want them for cutting. And would probably need to allow for the kerf, I think.


Just throwing a few ideas at ya!