coffee & cream tissue boxes

[devonwoody]

Picked up some scruffy black walnut offcuts sometime ago and have now found a use for this timber. Being able to use very small pieces of timber for these tissue boxes it has meant the timber is getting a useful life.

So thats another two boxes on the way, (I've only got one in stock at the moment at home).

 

[TrimTheKing]

Hi DW

On the top pic, the sides that are in the cramps, it looks like the lighter wood grain runs perpendicular to the grain on the shorter darker pieces.

If that's the case you are looking at the box tearing itself apart with any reasonable amount of humidity change.

Just an observation, but you really should be looking to sort it to avoid potential issues.

 

[devonwoody]

Yes you are correct in your observation, however the pieces are so small and have been glued with titebond3. I did a trial piece over a month ago and had no problems also two boxes completed last week are not showing any sign of problems even tho they have been left next to radiators and laying around in a conservatory with temperatures going up to 100far.

However time will tell as you rightly point out. Large pieces I would not attempt either.

 

[TrimTheKing]

Yes you are correct in your observation, however the pieces are so small and have been glued with titebond3. I did a trial piece over a month ago and had no problems also two boxes completed last week are not showing any sign of problems even tho they have been left next to radiators and laying around in a conservatory with temperatures going up to 100far.

However time will tell as you rightly point out. Large pieces I would not attempt either.

Fairy snuff.

 

[devonwoody]

Got a couple of lids on the go, again defying convention with grain directions but modern glues seem to cope. In the old days you could have broken the joins with just a twist of the wrist.

 

[devonwoody]

I have got the two coffee & cream boxes finished (awaiting finish as usual).

And got another two plain carcasses underway in anticipation of visitors who have said they are coming to Paignton this month.

Hoping to make some decorative tops for the new ones, and have considered banding around the aperture like guitar sound holes.

 

[adzeman]

You have wet my appetite I have lots friends to who would appreciate a gift of one for Christmas. Its only 6 months away. When my little shed extensions finished.

 

[mike-reid]

please excuse my ignorance, but are the lids hinged or a snug fit to lift off?
these look wonderfull and you have wet my appetite too!

 

[big soft moose]

the lids are fixed - you put the tissues in through a sliding base

DW must have either a lot of freinds or a very bad cold

 

[devonwoody]

please excuse my ignorance, but are the lids hinged or a snug fit to lift off?
these look wonderfull and you have wet my appetite too!

Have a look at this thread towards the end of posts you will see a photograph of a tissue box which has been upended.

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/two- ... 41390.html

 

[devonwoody]

OK, making some lids for those two boxes in picture above.

Found some maple offcuts from previous boxes, (I knew they would come in handy for something)

Together with some Purpleheart offcuts glued up this design on to a penciled plan.

Found some Black walnut and a sliver of maple to make another top as per this picture.

 

[devonwoody]

In addition to the two cream & coffee boxes a further two were completed this morning using up those offcuts for lids.

To correct a lid fitting problem I had to insert another offcut of white maple along one side.

However the effect is satisfactory to me.

So Wizer (Tom) who says he is visiting later this month, would you like to select a box to be reserved as a gift from the coffee and cream boxes or other ones posted today.
I will leave without a finish so that you can choose your own preference.

I anticipate some Australian visitors visiting also this month.

 

[devonwoody]

Can I tell you about the age thing.

I am in the process of making another tissue box this week, I am expecting some Australian friends to visit and decided to make another quickie tissue box, but I could not remember the method I followed in construction, so I did a google "tissue box devonwoody" and it brought me to this page.

The method needed was displayed nicely in that photograph of four boxes. I could not remember if I had to rebate the top edge of the carcass.

It looks like it is only the lid that I recess.

 

[Jensmith]

Well, I'm glad this got bumped as I didn't see it the first time around. Lovely boxes from scraps.

 

[motownmartin]

I see you are still making them John, how many now, must be 50 different boxes, keep going mate.

 

[devonwoody]

Martin perhaps I could accumulate a quantity of timber machined whilst still young enough to operate machinery and the get into marquetry decorating them in old age. :roll:

 

[motownmartin]

tart learning now JJ, anyway, youd use MDF rather than timber.