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Hi Miles, i don't really know if it has other names - sorry. I worked it primarily with machines, but used a cabinet scraper to finish. it has a tendency to chip very easily - i had a crack at dovetails on a piece but it was just too brittle. give it a try - sorry i couldn't be more help...

JFC - not altogether successfully :-( - see posts above! the method i used was to cut 8 sheets of veneer the same size. stick the first at each end with masking tape to a piece of paper. spread 10% watered down pva over the veneer, place the second piece of veneer on top of the first (use...

jfc - the banding is home-made dyed-veneer 'sandwich'.

Chris, sorry should have been clearer. i used regular PVA to stick the bandings in the grooves and had no problem with that. i used watered down pva to make the bandings from 8 sheets of veneer. Andrew Crawford suggested this method (i think to avoid visible glue lines between the 0.6mm...

thanks for all the encouragement i received from my first post, I was inspired to make a second one. Same timber as last time, which Sgian Dubh thinks is silky oak rather than she oak. lined with satin this time, and no hinges. i routed a dado on the insides on the box prior to assembly, and...

thanks very much for the kind comments, and particularly thanks to the forum members who recommended the dure edge bandsaw blades - I don't think the final separation would have gone nearly as well with the blade supplied by record!

thanks Steve, difficult for me to judge the quality of the timber on the SL pallets as I haven't really got a reference point. but for what it's worth: The boards are a mixture of PAR and sawn. most of the boards are 3-5 feet long and 4-5 inches wide - there are a couple of wider and thicker...

thanks Pete. here goes then.... The timber came as part of a pallet of off-cuts from SL Hardwoods. I think it is Australian She-Oak. The sides are solid, and the lid and base veneered 4mm ply. I cut the veneer myself on a bandsaw from the she-oak board. The banding is home made too - a...

finally finished my first project - a jewelry box for my daughter's christmas present :-) I'd never imagined that dressmaking scissors would form such a vital part of the toolkit ;-)