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Nice job on the box. Is it just me that when I make a mistake on something I am the only one that can see it. We have things in our house that I made years ago and I can still tell you where there is a mistake on them:o

Great fix up! Metal worker can weld and mill. You can cut and glue yeah.
Glad you shared with us. Keep up the projects.

That is the "Rolling Design" system...


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judaspre1982 wrote:Hi Chris
Let us know what your new technique is after you get to try it out.
I will be using your bandsaw bevel cutting technique this weekend.

Looks like you've got a good start on your new tissue box. Hope you feel better.

Dave

Dave, thanks.... feeling better today.... here is revealed the latest "gimmick." It's actually a very old "Miter Jack" I found in an antique store. After trying it for this tissue box, I realize these particular workpieces have a low enough aspect-ratio that they'd really be easier to do on the 45-tilted Shopsmith disc-sander (my normal technique). I didn't quite have enough 'meat' to guide my plane as well as this old jig could do with more conventional workpieces. So my bevels aren't perfect and I'm using gap-filling epoxy (my savior). Everything is a tad oversize and hopefully will look tidier when trimmed down later.


Here's the jig in action:
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Here's the initial glue of 2 joints (will do the last 2 after inserting the top piece yet to be made):
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I can tolerate a long time on my projects, if I can get a *little* bit of progress every couple of days .

Moving on now... this tissue-box is about 80 parts experimentation and 20 parts normal process....

As the box has built up from different layers, the miter joints weren't all as nice as I'd want. I just decided to rout out the exposed corners, and then I'll spline them for a more uniform appearance.

I used my fore/aft shop-built Sled for the overarm pin router. By sighting across the tissue-box corners, all the way through the way-tubes to 'center points' at the other end of this mini-station, I could mount the box for spline-slotting each miter-joint with a 1/8" bit. So later I can get some 1/8" stock and put in splines:

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Now the splines are in, cleanup has been done, first round of sand & finish is done:

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It is gonna be worth all the consternation and futsing when done.

Georgeous 'top'.

Thanks, JPG!

In the parlance of car paint-shops, it's now got a "5 foot finish," what with the unfilled mahogany, etc. Get closer than 5 ft, and it's not so great. But it'll do the job.

I used:
2 coats of Tru-Oil
1 coat of Shellawax (turning finish)
1 coat of JPW
Then
Washed hands with cherry pumice GoJo
Washed hands doing dishes for SWMBO

The box will be going to a Niece with her apartment just big enough to hold it....

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Nice Job Chris!!

Believe it or not, when trying to buy some fairly unremarkable wood from an eBay seller, I was accidentally sent some top-notch figured maple. The seller and I came to terms so I could just keep the 'mistake' and avoid more shipping hassles.

Here is a gift-box made using similar techniques as the last tissue-box. For instance, gluing on the upper / lower trim pieces allowed me to (a.) effectively have more board dimension than I would have had, and (b.) cut dadoes with less fear of climb-cut incidents on my router table. I was just cutting rabbets on the edges of the maple and not dadoes.

I also had got some very figured walnut -- nice to look at from a distance, but full of grain-filling-needs if you look much closer.

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