Attempt to make double dovetails and cornerpost

[motownmartin]

love it, I reckon if you did take a little more off it would look even better, but that's jut my own taste.

I thinkn I might try that joint on some boxes myself later

HS

Make sure you post a pic or 2

 

[motownmartin]

This thread should have be called 'The re-awakening of the incra masses'

:lol: Like it :lol:

It will be good, we can learn off each other

 

[Corset]

Really very nice that. I have to say i am quite taken by that joint.
Owen

 

[NeilO]

very impressed Martin, really nice looking box.....

and thanks for the reminder, datum lines and sawdust doesnt help for an accurate fit :lol:

and thanks for showing the steps to making it, step by step , as it where...

 

[devonwoody]

Sorry I missed your thread owing to the pressures of reloading my PC at the beginning of the week.

But now its finished I still congratulate you on taking on a complicated project as a WIP.

 

[motownmartin]

Sorry I missed your thread owing to the pressures of reloading my PC at the beginning of the week.

But now its finished I still congratulate you on taking on a complicated project as a WIP.

Thanks John, it was very scary, I had visions of not being able to do it, I would have looked an even bigger Gonk :lol:

 

[Woodmagnet]

Well done Martin, an excellent job. :wink:

 

[seaco]

I really like that, well done!

 

[motownmartin]

Thanks Kevin and Lee, it's something that was very challenging and definitely something that I will do again but maybe a bigger dovetail.

First of all I need to master this Sketch-up thingy, i'm struggling at the minute :? , but need to see what different designs look like. maybe after Christmas

 

[AndyBoyd]

Nice job martin

You can do this easily too on the Woodrat and by hand of course if you have the time but not the budget for the incra/woodrat approach.

What nice too Martin, as Houslager says, you can make the contrast wood very very thin by using the woodrat different sized bits or others. Then the joints really sing.

 

[motownmartin]

Nice job martin

You can do this easily too on the Woodrat and by hand of course if you have the time but not the budget for the incra/woodrat approach.

What nice too Martin, as Houslager says, you can make the contrast wood very very thin by using the woodrat different sized bits or others. Then the joints really sing.

I don't have the patience to cut dovetails by hand, I suppose thats something to do with working in a production shop all my life, I have to do the job the fastest way I can.

The different sized cutters I want to experiment with, my familt are already telling me what they need nice decorative boxes for :roll: they can have the practice ones :lol:

Thanks for the feedback Andy

 

[Pete Robinson]

Martin, Just to wet your appetite and also to emphasize the absolute brilliance of the Incra jig system, here are some boxes I made a couple of years ago!!

 

[devonwoody]

Pete Robinson & Martin,
Please show us more of your work, it might help me do something more exciting :wink:

 

[motownmartin]

Pete Robinson & Martin,
Please show us more of your work, it might help me do something more exciting :wink:

John, as you know I have only just started doing woodwork as a hobby so I don't have a lot to offer, but Pete on the other hand, has made a lot of interesting stuff and he might be tempted to post some pics.

The only other thing that I have made so far that might interest you is a Chess Board, this was made out of some off cuts that Pete gave to me, some Black Walnut, Sycamore and Oak, here's a couple of pics.

 

[devonwoody]

Very Nice,

How about a game of chess on Yahoo internet connection

 

[herdsman]

Nice chess board Martin.

In the same boat as you, a newbie to this but working on it!!

 

[Pete Robinson]

Martin, thought Id let you know, I have put some of the boxes I have made on the site under the heading - Past projects, it might even inspire someone!!