Stuff Dave made

[DTR]

Morning All,

As I've been here for two years already (and somehow racked up over 400 posts :? ) it's about time I actually posted some woodwork. Please bear in mind I consider myself just a humble beginner!

Grace's Box
SWMBO asked me to make her a jewellery box. It is her design and she painted the glass panel. The wood is walnut.

Garden Gates

Mick's Box
A neighbour was given a load of various hardwoods by a retiring joiner to chuck in his stove. When he found out I am a hobby wood butcher he decided it would be criminal to burn all that wood and very generously Gave me the good bits. As a thank you I made him this box from sapele.

Thanks for looking!

 

[dm65]

Looks good Dave, two sturdy looking boxes

 

[Roughcut]

Nice work.
I like the choice of ironmongery on the gates also. 8)

 

[stevenw1963]

Cracking looking stuff

 

[wallace]

Nice work Dave, I like the glass work
Mark

 

[custard]

Well done Dave...and congratulations to your wife, her glass panel looks superb!

 

[No skills]

+1 on the glass work, very good. The wooden bits are pretty good as well

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Nicely done for the most part, but I'll stick my head above the parapet - on your joints, you need to be careful where you use a knife and where you use a pencil.

 

[DTR]

Thank you for the kind words

Nicely done for the most part, but I'll stick my head above the parapet - on your joints, you need to be careful where you use a knife and where you use a pencil.

Rest assured I have changed my tactics a little since these were made. I must admit to not minding the scribe lines on dovetails, but I know I'm in the minority there. Wasn't there a thread about that recently?

 

[joiner_sim]

Humble beginner???
There's some good work there that leads me to believe your better than you give yourself credit for. Did you machine the timber yourself? And where did you get your box lock and hinges from?
The gate... not sure if it just the picture quality, but if its not, it's usual to router a chamfer on the inside of the stiles and top rail where the boards are going. It gives it a nice V groove like you get with the rest of your boards.

 

[DTR]

Humble beginner???
There's some good work there that leads me to believe your better than you give yourself credit for. Did you machine the timber yourself? And where did you get your box lock and hinges from?
The gate... not sure if it just the picture quality, but if its not, it's usual to router a chamfer on the inside of the stiles and top rail where the boards are going. It gives it a nice V groove like you get with the rest of your boards.

Thank you for the kind words. Apart from a bandsaw for rough sizing, I do everything by hand. The walnut and sapele for the boxes was prepared with handplanes, the softwood for the gates was bought as PAR but thicknessed by hand. The box lock came from ebay and the escutcheon was cut from an offcut of 3mm brass sheet. The hinges came from the local DIY shop.

As for a chamfer on the gate stiles, I wish I'd thought of that.

 

[joiner_sim]

You have my full respect for doing the timber planed to size by hand. Not an easy task and not one I think I'd have the patience for!

Also, the top edge of the boards usually get chamfered too, forgot to mention that when saying about the top rail.

 

[barkwindjammer]

Quality work there Dave, especialy like the gates 8)

 

[DTR]

Didn't realise it had been so long since I posted this thread...

Here's a few more bits. Apologies for the rubbish photos.

Another walnut box
Grace painted a glass panel for this one too, but unfortunately we were in rush to get the box out and didn't get any photos of it.

Tool Chest

Grace's Carving Vice
Loosely based on Benchcrafted's drawings, which in turn are based on a vintage French(?) vice. Made from bits of oak sleeper, and I machined the hardware on my ML4

 

[marcros]

Fantastic work. I would be interested to see some more on the glass painting and if possible understand what paint etc is used. I had an idea to do similarly with a painted glass panel in a box lid (but would be limited to something very simple/geometric since I am not a painter)

 

[DTR]

Fantastic work.)

Thank you . I'll let Grace [Doris] tell you about the glass painting, she is a member on here

 

[Doris]

Fantastic work. I would be interested to see some more on the glass painting and if possible understand what paint etc is used. I had an idea to do similarly with a painted glass panel in a box lid (but would be limited to something very simple/geometric since I am not a painter)

Hi there. Thanks for all the compliments on my glass work. I don't really have anymore examples of my painting at hand but can answer your other questions in the meantime.

The paint used is just known as glass paints. You can get them from hobbycraft and they cost around £4 per pot. You can also buy glass liners for outlines which is in a tube with a nozzle at the end and you just pipe the stuff onto your glass. These cost around £7 per tube but do go a fair way. Make sure it is glass paint you have picked up and not ceramic paints as the two pots look very similar to one another.

Transferring your design is pretty simple on a flat pane of glass. Just stick your paper design underneath the glass and trace your outlines with the tube. Allow these to dry and then paint the sections in between. You have to work quickly though as the paint dries very fast. This is why a lot of painters break their artwork up into small sections. Also you will need to raise the glass up off of your work surface to let the light through. This will show you any gaps you have missed and so you can quickly fill them before the paint dries. Apply the paint thickly or you won't really get much colour showing through when the box is closed.

Some painters allow the paint just to air dry while others will bake the paint in order to fix it in place. It really depends on what you intend to do with the glass being painted. If your glass painting will be washed over and over again or knock around a fair bit then I would recommend baking at the lowest setting in the oven for about 15-20 minutes. Don't do it on a high heat or longer as the paint will burn. The paint can also bubble up if cooked soon after applying and not being allowed to dry for 24 hours.

You shouldn't feel that you are just limited to geometric designs. Basically your imagination is your only limitation. If you are struggling for inspiration then there are plenty of glass painting books out there that have patterns in the back for you to copy or change to your taste. These you find in craft shops or you can borrow from the library. Some can be found on the internet too.

Any other questions you may have feel free to ask and I will try my best to answer them for you.

 

[ColeyS1]

What a great set of projects and the glass painting is really interesting stuff ! Can I have the toolchest please :lol: love the colour

 

[DTR]

I would be interested to see some more on the glass painting...

I found some more of Grace's work... this is a lantern that Grace painted, then we cannibalised some solar garden lights to turn it into a night light

And the same design on a box for marshmellows

(it's the lid from from a CD case, but the principle's the same)

What a great set of projects and the glass painting is really interesting stuff ! Can I have the toolchest please :lol: love the colour

What a great set of projects and the glass painting is really interesting stuff ! Can I have the toolchest please :lol: love the colour

Thank you

 

[tobytools]

Stunning work.
Really impressed, And given me heaps of inspiration.

TT