Almost needed this Tissue box while working on it
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:47 pm
Who me? Yes, I pontificated a few times lately....
- Mentioned to my nephew that every project will have a mistake; you can't throw it away midstream.
- Told a few folks that "real woodworking" isn't so much about "sawdust" as it is about measured "shavings, chips."
Four years ago I had made a tissue-box after seeing one in the Toledo Woodcraft store:
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Someone seeing that box requested one of their own lately. So I finally got around to that.
Here's how all my preaching backfired on me:
- Had ordered some nice dimensioned wood from an in-state eBay guy (<100 miles away, perfect eBay rating). After 2 weeks of no UPS visits, I contacted the seller who dug and dug and concluded UPS had lost the wood. So much for salvaging that! I had to work with some other wood I dug up.
- Got real proud of my corner-miter cuts on some Ash planks, until I realized all 4 pieces were too short laterally to fit around a tissue-box!
- Panicked, decided to add in some gap-filling walnut pieces. Decided to use 15-min-cure Epoxy to make sure the joints were strong and all gaps were filled. Come trim-up time, epoxy is tough! No plane-shavings for that stuff, I had to grind down the squeeze-out dried glue with a long session at the Disc Sander.
- Top piece wasn't planned to have the two tiny "keys" holding the bookmatched Oak halves together. I had to put those keys in following a mistake on the bandsaw -- to fill up unintentional kerfs!
- Next: I decided the box was too tall in appearance. Then I found I couldn't get it fit in the bandsaw to trim off a bit from the bottom edges. Back to my recently-restored Rip handsaw. It actually works very well, especially, given its traditional teeth, if I lift it slightly during the backstrokes. You can also see traces of some long shavings left as the sharp teeth 'chisel' through a rip-cut.
So here is the short project made long... now finally ready for some finishing.
[ATTACH]18873[/ATTACH]
- Mentioned to my nephew that every project will have a mistake; you can't throw it away midstream.
- Told a few folks that "real woodworking" isn't so much about "sawdust" as it is about measured "shavings, chips."
Four years ago I had made a tissue-box after seeing one in the Toledo Woodcraft store:
[ATTACH]18872[/ATTACH]
Someone seeing that box requested one of their own lately. So I finally got around to that.
Here's how all my preaching backfired on me:
- Had ordered some nice dimensioned wood from an in-state eBay guy (<100 miles away, perfect eBay rating). After 2 weeks of no UPS visits, I contacted the seller who dug and dug and concluded UPS had lost the wood. So much for salvaging that! I had to work with some other wood I dug up.
- Got real proud of my corner-miter cuts on some Ash planks, until I realized all 4 pieces were too short laterally to fit around a tissue-box!
- Panicked, decided to add in some gap-filling walnut pieces. Decided to use 15-min-cure Epoxy to make sure the joints were strong and all gaps were filled. Come trim-up time, epoxy is tough! No plane-shavings for that stuff, I had to grind down the squeeze-out dried glue with a long session at the Disc Sander.
- Top piece wasn't planned to have the two tiny "keys" holding the bookmatched Oak halves together. I had to put those keys in following a mistake on the bandsaw -- to fill up unintentional kerfs!
- Next: I decided the box was too tall in appearance. Then I found I couldn't get it fit in the bandsaw to trim off a bit from the bottom edges. Back to my recently-restored Rip handsaw. It actually works very well, especially, given its traditional teeth, if I lift it slightly during the backstrokes. You can also see traces of some long shavings left as the sharp teeth 'chisel' through a rip-cut.
So here is the short project made long... now finally ready for some finishing.
[ATTACH]18873[/ATTACH]