COMP063 WIP Photos: Cutlery Canteen

[Chris Knight]

Andy,
I reckon you would do well making Japanese puzzle boxes!

 

[AndyG]

Here are the last set of WIP photos...

The final part was getting the lid made. The original plan was to do a coopered top. Well, after some thought I decided on a slight adaptation on this. Rather than angle all the pieces, I decided to use a staircase like construction, then round off the top part. The image below shows the plan. The blue parts are the oak strips that make up the top, the grey horizontal bit is the top of the main box, the pink shows the final curve, the yellow bit is a ply that hides the underside of the curve. Oh, and those little yellow rectangles (over grey bits) are the strips to strengthen the joints.

And after some gluing and a lot of planing here is the real thing.

And a close up of the curve. Amazingly, the curved part matches the initial plan quite closely.

So that the style of the lid more closely matched the rest of the unit, I wanted to frame it. The picture below shows the lid with the frame sides pieces in place.

This one shows the underside panels.

After all that, here's the glue up.

Once glued, I needed to plane the frame edges flush with the curve. This turned out to be quite an operation, there was plenty of
wood to remove.

Here's the lid all planed flush

Last job, giving everything it's first coat of oil.

I'll start another thread for the finished article and final pictures. Just got to wait for that oil.....

Edit: You can find photos of the finished canteen here .

Thanks all for reading
Andy