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Jewellery box in ripple sycamore with inlaid daffodil for my (welsh) daughter-in-law. I used Oslo Polyx Oil Raw for the first time to see if it would be better on the pale sycamore and was impressed with the finish and colour. Time will tell to see if it stays that way! Cheers Mark

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Many thanks to all who contributed I tried the power bank idea - but it was not reliable and cut out as John Brown suggested above So in the end I simply bought a 5m male-to-female USB lead and used an iPhone adaptor plug with a USB port and it worked perfectly. Problem solved so thanks again...

Thanks both. Roy thank you great idea - I have one and will try Dave the cabinet looks fine without the lighting - but if possible I prefer it to have it - makes it look very striking

Ha ha that was me!

Thanks so much everyone - very helpful esp the electrical sums which I always struggle with I have already thought of the 5V supply - and actually an iPhone-type charger which is 5W/2A should work fine I think (it says the lights are 10W so that is correct as I understand it). Then I will get a...

Yes definitely going off. No one else drinks whisky in the house ;). Kids long gone. 4 brand new Duracell batteries lasting about 10 minutes of actual lighting time

Good afternoon all. I wonder if I can seek advice from electrical wizards here? As part of my recently completed tambour whisky cabinet, I installed a motion-sensor triggered LED lighting strip Amazon lights It came with a 3m strip which you could trim to length and a battery box with 4 x AA...

Thanks for your kind words everyone Regards Mark

Last chapter All I had left to do was install the glass. I had decided to use 4mm misted safety glass which took a while to deliver Meanwhile I made some supports for the shelves by making 6mm dowels and then cutting half of half of that away. I made two sets to decide which looked best - and...

Haha I paid good money for that lead to fix a leaking gulley at home. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it! Thanks everyone for your kind comments Glass ordered - decided in the end to get opaque glass as I think the lighting will light that up better. I will post final photos and a video of...

All was not so rosy however... The tambours did not slide well enough... which was somewhat dispiriting The problem was racking when you tried to close the right hand one - which was the one which had the asymmetric handle right at the top - so I thought the simplest solution would be to remake...

After two weeks break I returned with renewed gusto to get this thing finished. First I had to decide whether to install lights which I originally wanted inside - the central part of the cabinet will have glass shelves and I wanted lighting somehow in that which would come on automatically when...

They did run freely before I glued it up. I need a couple of hours to work out the cause of the friction. I think it will be fine. However I am going on holiday tomorrow for 10 days so not going to get anything done about it until I get back

...my weekly update... and good progress but every time I think I have solved a problem something else comes along to cloud the pathway. A little frustrating but that's what happens when you make it up as you go along I guess. I finished filing the ends of all the staves - here is a close up...

Thanks all. I agree it is a lot of work Richard but I am more confident now with this method that my 65 staves on each side going round two corners will slide smoothly whereas I was not that confident on being able to cut the widened grooves at each corner perfectly. I do not have access to a...

I have made good progress this week but it is painfully slow going with multiple 'batch operations' required on each of the 130 staves. Once glueing up was finished on all the staves, first I had to divide them. This had been made easier by the thin plastic trips between each pair of staves...

First up I had to cut up my two amazing sheets of Spanish walnut. These measured 1350x700 and had to be cut down to 1000x520 I actually cut them both together and ended up with 2 pieces that were so beautiful. Half of this Spanish walnut had an amazing ripple effect so I cut it appropriately...

I finished the internal cabinet over the weekend and started making the slats for the tambour. The internal cabinet was close to being finished but I needed to work on the four corners to make sure the curves were exactly right so as to allow a 4mm gap between the outside edge of the cabinet and...

I finally finished making another desk for a nephew's wedding present so the workshop is much clearer and I can get on with the tambour cabinet - now officially designated as a whisky cabinet:) First thing I did when I had space was to look in much closer detail at the accuracy, dimensions and...