Well... I headed out to the shed today with the full intentions of turning one box, maybe two, and doing some glue-ups for another couple of concepts that I want to try.
I thought I'd get the cutting & gluing out of the way first so I could play with turning while waiting for glue to dry. Bad decision. I did the basic cutting, then went to find my PVA glue. I only used it the other day, but where did I put it?
About an hour worth of shuffling boxes & moving wood later, I spotted it sitting on the end of my lathe bed, just t'other side of my tailstock. :- OK, so I grab it, take it to the blanks and go to squeeze some out.
Invert the bottle and... hear this oozy "thwop" noise inside the bottle. The last 1/4 of the bottle has gelled & set. :oo: It did that last time, too... and that's why I put it on the lathe bed last time, to remind me to replace it! :doh:
Anyways, the first box started off as this; it's 100x100x70mm Congo Mahogany (Thanks again, Jefferson. :2tsup:) It was originally 100mm each way, but I was doing something else earlier in the week and needed a small offcut, so picked up what I thought was a Tas Oak 4x4 and sliced the end off before I realised my boo-boo. :B I'm having one of those weeks.
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So, 30mm narrower than I'd first planned... what to do, what to do? OK, an idea has come into my head... I'll split it down in half, to give me two 35mm(ish) deep blanks.
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Originally I was going to hot-melt glue a tenon on it for mounting in the chuck, but with the change in plan I've simply drilled both halves to take a worm-screw.
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It's going to be a winged box, of sorts, (I seem to be going through a "winged thing" phase at the moment!) so I've attached some sacrificial pieces of crapiarta to save my fingers from chop-chop. There'll be pieces attached to the remaining sides, but I couldn't scrape enough glue together to get that far.
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That's as far as I got with this particular box today... :sigh:
It'll be the first I complete (once I source more glue) so, even though I've pix of several others I started, I'll wait to post them until I get around to actually doing those boxes. Just to give some continuity, and the thread doesn't chop'n'change between 'em.
(I did manage to get a solid couple of hours turning in, but as that was finishing a 14" textured bowl and a 12" winged bowl, I don't think they're eligible for this particular thread. :innocent:)