6 pen tidies !

[devonwoody]

Started preparing timber for 6 pen tidies, getting ready for Xmas.

 

[OPJ]

You seem to be very busy at the moment, DW!

 

[Woodmagnet]

You seem to be very busy at the moment, DW!

Exactly, what you on D.W. i need some. :lol:

 

[devonwoody]

You seem to be very busy at the moment, DW!

Exactly, what you on D.W. i need some. :lol:

My last ten years of woodworking and lots to do.

 

[devonwoody]

The six pen tidied are being reduced to 4.

The reason being that the second timber choice for the other two boxes were going to be in Oak, but there is a timber flaw, shake?.

So when mass producing it meant that two boxes would have different dimensions if I started on another piece of timber, the P/T thicknesses would not match etc.

So cut the idigibo to 16 lengths and mitred their ends as per pic.

Then got the first box with platform glued up and clamped this time!

 

[devonwoody]

Got the first 4 outer boxes glued up, the chalk mark scribbled out was to denote the dado orientation but was indicated on the wrong surface hence its view.

Prepared timber for the 4 internal boxes but was waylaid to do some gardening before the rains came down again. (Around 1000 bulbs to plant)

Be back soon.

 

[Woodmagnet]

(Around 1000 bulbs to plant)

Ah! a spot of "light" work. :lol:
Hat, Coat..............."TAXI" :lol:

 

[devonwoody]

Got away from the garden for a spell and knocked up the 4 internal boxes as per pic.

Woodworking time being cut down at the moment to around 12 hours a week owing to seasonal duties catching up with me.

 

[devonwoody]

Requested the assistance of my helpful neighbour and we got down this iroko board which I estimate weighed around 87lbs. (8ft x 2ft x30mm) ex. laboratory top.

Owing to putting in a lathe table the other month I was unable to rip along the length because I have got the table fixed above my tablesaw height, (so I have sometime got to change my lathe set up). Anyway my neighbour who had just finished his siesta felt energetic and cross cut for me the board with a handsaw, I kept warning him that it was going to be hard but ........................

So at the end of the afternoon I had machined up 4 lengths of Br.Mahogany and the two lengths of iroko ready for the pen tubes as per pic.

The iroko in my opinion would be of no use for furniture making, the grain is very wild and machines horribly.

 

[Richard Findley]

The reason being that the second timber choice for the other two boxes were going to be in Oak, but there is a timber flaw, shake?.

I love Oak but this is sooo frustrating when this happens, and it does just a bit to frequently :evil: :evil:

Richard

 

[devonwoody]

Got to work on the tubes and remembered a couple of years ago I purchased a 45% router mitre bit and it worked a treat on putting the angle on the grain in this direction. (I gave up trying to cut mitres across the grain for box corners ,I had forgotten I had got this bit)

gluing up went well.

I intend putting the tubes through the thicknesser but do have some trepidation with the iroko sides. It could be a disaster.

The sander is waiting for a new motor drive belt, so is out of action.

 

[devonwoody]

They went through the thicknesser as sweet as a nut!

For the smaller tubes started another length.

Incidentally I needed to thin the iroko down to around 10mm and I put the piece through the bandsaw rather than the thicknesser and finished up with a nice piece almost on the 1mm mark.
The reason I mention this is my bandsaw (which I purchased secondhand) is a standard bog model and in the early days I used to curse and swear that I never got a nice cut, there was always some issue.
However using decent blades, which in my opinion is the only route to take, a good cut is common and practice then also comes into the equation.

 

[Woodmagnet]

#-o i never thought about using a 45degree router bit for
boxes, thanks for the tip D/W.

 

[OPJ]

Wow, I wouldn't have liked to put those through the thicknesser :? - glad it worked out for you, though! Thanks also for the tip on 45º mitres.

 

[devonwoody]

Returned to the boxes and four internal boxes fit and separate after leaving overnight.

Decided on some decorative work to the boxes, edgings to two boxes and cross inserts to the other two.

Meranti (from my old window frames) for edgings and Black Walnut for the other two, I haven't used my Australian stock yet because I have so many offcuts lying in boxes that is already in strips.

Looked at edgings this morning and I think will be attractive but will be a time consuming operation awaiting glues to set to each edge.
Can never have enough clamps, using the wifes plastic clothes pegs as well.

 

[devonwoody]

Started cleaning up some of those edgings but only the first step.

And whilst awaiting edgings to set I am fitting some tubes to the other two boxes.

Day off today, off to the art group and we have a still life project on, watercolour of conkers.

 

[devonwoody]

Nearly there!

 

[devonwoody]

17 days and I am now ready for the final clean up and finish which will be shellac and wax.

One of my friendly neighbours popped into my shed yesterday and she was lucky, she got a promise of a box.

 

[Woodmagnet]

One of my friendly neighbours popped into my shed yesterday and she was lucky, she got a promise of a box.

:shock: Friendly/into my shed/she/lucky/promise. :shock:
Say no more, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

 

[maltrout512]

looking good. Could not help see in your 1st pic an axi saw table, is yours the 10 or 12, because I bought the 12 about 2 months ago and wondered how you are getting on with it.