I have a few hours spread over a couple weekends. Maybe 2 hours for the dovetails (second try). Base was about 2 hours of fittment and about 1 hour to glue up the top. Carving was about 2 hours for the dimpled design on the top. Milling and cutting plus hand planing was additional. Much of the final dimensioning was done by hand. I may be off by an hour or 2. Thanks for the compliments.
Here's the project just about completed:
4 coats Poly. Then rubbed out to 1500 followed by automotive rubbing compound then car polish and finally wax.
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Black and brown shoe polish left to dry in the dimples. Then waxed carefully. Wax will pull the shoe polish out.
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Left some shoe polish in cracks to age the piece a bit.
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Where did the shopsmith come in? It's the front dimpled area on the front of the piece along the bottom. I double sided taped the entire piece assembled onto my jig (a flat piece of mdf that has a piece that rides in the miter slot. I then mounted a router bit 3/16 size into the router chuck and used the table height lever and sliding the jig along the table to get a perfect square rout of perfect depth. I couldn't have done it another way unless I routed before I cut the wood.
Wingman, I remember when you were trying to buy that machine, when you got it and you have started off greatly. Nice tool box. Made one of these for my son and grandson. Handy until you load them with heavy tools. Great job on the use of a spindle for the handle. It looks as if you have some rust on one of the table top tubes. Or was that some stain?
I also really like the jewelry/keepsake box. The dimple tool reminds me very much of a star drill used to bore holes in concrete. Fantastic use of that tool and the finish is also great. Thanks for sharing those pics.
Steve, the old Florida gator
I just love it when she says I can go make sawdust.
swampgator wrote:Wingman, I remember when you were trying to buy that machine, when you got it and you have started off greatly. Nice tool box. Made one of these for my son and grandson. Handy until you load them with heavy tools. Great job on the use of a spindle for the handle. It looks as if you have some rust on one of the table top tubes. Or was that some stain?
I also really like the jewelry/keepsake box. The dimple tool reminds me very much of a star drill used to bore holes in concrete. Fantastic use of that tool and the finish is also great. Thanks for sharing those pics.
Definitely rust. It's surface though and I'm removing a little more each weekend! I'm having good luck with goo gone and steel wool.
1993 Shopsmith Model 510. Very proud to be a Shopsmith owner.
Went to the woodcarvers show yesterday and my wife saw a circuit board pen for sell and loved it. I had not turned one of these yet so instead of buying one made went to woodcraft to pick up a kit, also found several other items I could not live with out and turned her a circuit board pen this morning. Also found that woodcraft is carrying sinken cypress and picked some of that up to turn. I saw it carved and turned at the show and the finish was really nice so think I will try a pen tomorrow. Will post it to let you see how it turns out.
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Bill
Broken Arrow OK
MKV, 510, MKVll, 50th Anniversary 520 with Jointech saw train, Bandsaw, scroll saw, joiner, 6" Sander,Stand Alone Pin Router and Router Table, Strip Sander, Jigsaw & (4) ER's plus Jigsaw for ER. DC SS RAS
Bill... that pen ROCKS!!! As someone who works with computers a LOT, and has seen his fair share of the insides of a PC case, I found the next thing I must have!!!
I like the jewelry box especially the dimpling or detail in the top. I'm wanting to make a toy box with detail like that. I've always wondered how that was done and now I know. The question I have is in regards to the circuit board pin. How did you get it to wrap or turn? Did you heat up the circuit board and formed it around a pen shaft?
