speeder1987
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Hi guys,
I thought I would share a couple of small boxes I have made over the last few weeks. No WIP at the moment will do that for the next box I make as I am starting to get some confidence on how they are made. There were a lot of firsts making these as you can probably tell ....... first attempt at mitres, veneering, and cutting splines, which made this very interesting. The finish is simply 2 coats of danish oil, though I am going to wax them with Mylands light brown wax when it arrives.
Anyway here are the two boxes:
The first box I made was made from walnut with a burr maple lid (need to check this). The splines are zebrano and the inserts are maple. Learnt a lot of thing with this box, like making sure the box is square before glueing #-o , The box also kept slipping on the sled when cutting the splines and so they ended up twice as big as I wanted them. This meant I couldn't use the maple I had put aside any more and had to instead use a piece of zebrano I had as it was the only contrasting wood I had. This turned out to be a bit of a disaster as not only did the dominant grain of the zebrawood look really strange, when I applied the Danish oil it went nearly the same colour as the walnut!!!! #-o . But in the end, I am actually pretty happy with it and I don't think its bad for a first attempt. Here are some better photos of it:
The second box I'm not actually sure what wood it is, I got a big box of offcuts of which this piece was one of. I think it is Sapele, but what do you guys think? I have a picture of it here:
The second box is Sapele (assuming that's what it is), with a burr maple, burr walnut and black stringing lid and maple splines and inserts, with the bottom being blue velvet. I am much happier with this box as I already new a lot of the pit falls from the first box. The only problem I had was a major one ..... when I parted the lid, for some reason the bandsaw cut a very nice wave pattern in the box :evil: after a lot of swearing, I managed to plane two faces so that the lid and bottom fitted nicely and then added a chamfer which hides any imperfections. I modified my jig so cutting the splines went a lot smoother
Anyway, that's it for now, as I said I will post a WIP next time for those that are interested.
Thanks for reading and as always all comments/criticisms are welcomed
John
I thought I would share a couple of small boxes I have made over the last few weeks. No WIP at the moment will do that for the next box I make as I am starting to get some confidence on how they are made. There were a lot of firsts making these as you can probably tell ....... first attempt at mitres, veneering, and cutting splines, which made this very interesting. The finish is simply 2 coats of danish oil, though I am going to wax them with Mylands light brown wax when it arrives.
Anyway here are the two boxes:
The first box I made was made from walnut with a burr maple lid (need to check this). The splines are zebrano and the inserts are maple. Learnt a lot of thing with this box, like making sure the box is square before glueing #-o , The box also kept slipping on the sled when cutting the splines and so they ended up twice as big as I wanted them. This meant I couldn't use the maple I had put aside any more and had to instead use a piece of zebrano I had as it was the only contrasting wood I had. This turned out to be a bit of a disaster as not only did the dominant grain of the zebrawood look really strange, when I applied the Danish oil it went nearly the same colour as the walnut!!!! #-o . But in the end, I am actually pretty happy with it and I don't think its bad for a first attempt. Here are some better photos of it:
The second box I'm not actually sure what wood it is, I got a big box of offcuts of which this piece was one of. I think it is Sapele, but what do you guys think? I have a picture of it here:
The second box is Sapele (assuming that's what it is), with a burr maple, burr walnut and black stringing lid and maple splines and inserts, with the bottom being blue velvet. I am much happier with this box as I already new a lot of the pit falls from the first box. The only problem I had was a major one ..... when I parted the lid, for some reason the bandsaw cut a very nice wave pattern in the box :evil: after a lot of swearing, I managed to plane two faces so that the lid and bottom fitted nicely and then added a chamfer which hides any imperfections. I modified my jig so cutting the splines went a lot smoother
Anyway, that's it for now, as I said I will post a WIP next time for those that are interested.
Thanks for reading and as always all comments/criticisms are welcomed
John
