black & white, and white & black

[devonwoody]

Had a good day, finished off the other Chardonnay box and because I had already got some stock pieces laying around I decided to knock up a couple more but alternating the colour ends to sides and tops.

Prepared some more timber for tops and got them shaped and glued up. But leaving the tops off until tomorrow. And then its another big polish up session.

So it is possible for me to just about complete a couple of boxes if I push it.

 

[Jensmith]

I like these. Nice colour combination

 

[devonwoody]

I am a member of an art group and I needed a few more tissue boxes to present as gifts. Took some black walnut and American ash out of the pile and estimated there would be enough for three boxes.

However when I came to gluing up the carcasses it turned out that I had machined up enough for six, very complicated.

I went into the WS around 1.30pm and prepared as per picture, (the black walnut was rough sawn timber but I put it straight into the thicknesser without planing and I was lucky)

I thought the mitred corners took a long time at the tablesaw, (I did 48 mitres).

Anyway by 5pm they were ready to be glued up.

At 6pm I was to tired to remember to take the photograph but I took that this morning.

So I expect to have ten boxes to take up to our club shortly, (together with some stock ones already made)

 

[beatsme]

I love making boxes and do so at every possible occasion, usually for craft supplies (I love sewing and knitting and embroidering and all of them little things and I am not really keen on the idea of buying a massive storage space, prefer making one myself). Quite nice these boxes are, good job.

 

[devonwoody]

Beatsme, pleased that you like them, my wife has a collection of embroidery boxes and tables made for her over the past 10 years.


Going back to these latest 6 boxes this was the waste which you can see was very tight doing those 48 mitre corners.

Made six lids today and it was a much slower process than making those carcasses.

 

[mickthetree]

Hi devonwoody

What table saw do you use? Do you cut all of the mitre joints on this? Mitre sled?

Looking great!

 

[bugbear]

Do you get issues with such wide mitres moving and opening up?

BugBear

 

[CHJ]

Please excuse the butting in here,

Do you get issues with such wide mitres moving and opening up?
BugBear

To date I have not had an issue with end grain mitre joints failing as long as the wood is low moisture content to start with and use Cascamite, maybe it's because the sections are short so little relative movement.
I do get joint creep over time using PVA, just enough to be felt.

 

[devonwoody]

I have been using Titebond 3 and you all know I have been doing a lot of end grain gluing, think wicked box, harlequin, etc. I think if I was using traditional PVA I would have had creep problems but T3 seems OK.

Mickletree I have got the standard Axminster AW10 table saw and I use a jig to do those corner mitres, have a look at previous boxes of mine and you will see the jig many times.