Thread: V for Victory tissue box

Turned out great John. Look forward to seeing your new idea for the other tops.

Looks good... Like the design a lot.

Typical pom though hedging your bets like that. If you win, you point to the V. If you lose... well, that's where the tissues come in

Cheers,
Dave

Re the cricket, I think they are going to use a rubber ball today so it floats on the puddles and doesn't sink into the mud.

Cant wait to get into the shop, I cut a chunk off a log of sycamore yesterday, hope I didnt cut it too short, been a bit stressed overnight.

Added some more pictures to yesterdays work.

Cut some pieces of my sycamore board, trying to get the maximum I have not left any waste on ends, so keeping my fingers crossed.



Couple of carcasses prepared with a dark band on top edge owing to not enough depth.

The timber stock is being reduced.



There is another six carcasses requiring the lid fitted, various decorative effects are in mind. Two of the carcasses have been rebated on their top edges and going to try something new.

Something different in lid design for me.

A paper template.



Drawn a pattern on tracing paper and numbered parts.





Regretting the number of small waste bits I have thrown away.



Hoping to have a pleasant weekend in the workshop.

There is no end to your creativity Jow. Have a great weekend in the shed. Still too cold for me to get out there into mine. Keep up your source of inspiration.

Problem here too, very wet. No cricket either.

My idea of sticking paper templates to timber has not been successful.





Gluing the tracing paper using kids craft glue resulted in the baking paper I used shrinking and wrinkling.

Tried another set using carpet fitters spray glue, paper didn't shrink, but it was worse than super glue, it took me along time to clean myself up and pick anything up without problems.
So the day was wasted, going to try carbon paper type effect to get the stencil look or I will have to cut some card and fix on. Then I only have use of a bandsaw with a 16tpi blade, no scroll saw.

Any ideas?

Sorry you had a frustrating day Jow. You are doing lids for several boxes aren't you? One idea I have seen pictured is to temporarily fix several contrasting timbers (thin boards) together. Then, free hand your lines. Band saw along the lines. Then separate the several layers of boards so that you can fit the pieces of contrasting timber together. If you had say 5 lamina each 6mm thick that would produce a composite board of only about 30mm and should be bandsawable. The pieces from one stratum should fit perfectly with pieces from other strata. I should say I have never tried this myself yet, it is a level beyond my competence at the moment, but I have seen pictures of lovely box lids made in this way.

Do you think two-sided tape might work? I use carpet tape a good deal when attaching routing templates. Bugger to come off (which is a good thing for a routing template), but it does come off clean.

This is the effect I am trying to achieve.




top ready to go through the thcknesser to reduce to around 7mm thick.




Disaster.




Whether I was too impatient and attempted only 3 hours after gluing (it works OK on strips).
End grain gluing is involved.
Glue might have caused dragging on the thicknesser table.
Anyway I will give it another go, and do a strip box whilst awaiting a glue set.

What a shame Jow. I wonder if the feedrollers were bearing down on one of the pieces whilst the cutters were pushing the adjacent piece backwards - ripping the joints apart? Maybe sanding is the only way to go with that kind of construction.

Jow what a bummer hang in there. the finished lid will be worth effort.
cheers