Ebonized walnut, maple and mesquite.
He wants the next one made with olive wood.
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Rifle case for my brother.
Ebonized walnut, maple and mesquite.
He wants the next one made with olive wood.
Ebonized walnut, maple and mesquite.
He wants the next one made with olive wood.
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cooch366
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Very nice. Beautiful work, Gene.
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Agreed, that's beautiful!
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davebodner
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I'm having trouble seeing the construction. Did you make a mitered box, and then add maple keys? Or is the whole thing dovetailed?
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masonsailor2
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Wow Gene. Nice !
Paul
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Very nice! You can make such beautiful things from wood. That one should be an heirloom some day.
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Mitered and keyed. The maple stripes are strips laid in when the panels were glued up. They determined where the keys went.davebodner wrote:I'm having trouble seeing the construction. Did you make a mitered box, and then add maple keys? Or is the whole thing dovetailed?
Thanks, Dave, Paul, Al, Gary and Cooch. It was fun.
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rjent
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wonderful box Gene, very nice job!
Dick
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1965 Mark VII S/N 407684
1951 10 ER S/N ER 44570 -- Reborn 9/16/14
1950 10 ER S/N ER 33479 Reborn July 2016
1950 10 ER S/N ER 39671
1951 jigsaw X 2
1951 !0 ER #3 in rebuild
500, Jointer, Bsaw, Bsander, Planer
2014 Mark 7 W/Lift assist - 14 4" Jointer - DC3300
And a plethora of small stuff .....
"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." - Benjamin Franklin
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looks really nice,what did you finish it with ? Olive wood would be fun
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Thanks, Hobbyman. The finish is one application of dark Walnut Watco followed by Watco/varnish mix @ 50/50, another @ 70% varnish and 30% Watco and a final with varnish and just a tad of Watco. All wiped on and abraded between coats. Finally, Johnson's paste wax applied with Liberon #0000 wool. Then mechanically buffed.