Diamond pattern tissue box

[devonwoody]

New pattern design is now on the stocks.

Got a new Trend waveform rip blade from Yandles yesterday and raring to try out some ripping.

Cannot wait to start.

 

[adzeman]

You have not given any idea of what timbers?
Looked up the Trend waveform on the net and found the prices varied by quite a bit.
I buy my blades from George Higgins Tools but they did not have any in the catalog

 

[devonwoody]

Timbers are tobe Maple and sapele.

Started Friday evening, it was too warm in the shed during the daytime.

Got out some sapele and maple

Did some stripping, (the purple heart board is there as a spacer to enable the crown guard to drop down inside the fence)

Obtained 12 strips.

Restarted Saturday afternoon in the warm shed!

Cut 4 diamonds shapes by hand, the pieces were too small for me on a machine.

Then found I needed some more maple stock so cut a short length off the plank to reduce weight.

Put through the bandsaw and then machined on the planer/thicknesser ready for another start hopefully Monday.

 

[devonwoody]

Prepared the maple boards, (only got five pieces off the block this time)

laid out the strips to prepare for cutting to lengths.

Set the twelve pieces on my sled to cut all to equal lengths.

Then chickened out and only cut 6 lengths at a time, didnt fancy the holding position on the sled. :wink:

finished up with 24 lengths.

Then stopped for the days session, had a heavy day yesterday, went to a neighbours retirement party and played the keyboard for three hours and that zonked me.

Computer going to the doctors in the morning to have Windows xp with service pack 3 loaded direct from a windows disk. The patch update is not satisfactory for loading some new software when needed.

 

[devonwoody]

I have handcut strips and fitted in diamond shapes.

They have cleaned up OK.

Box carcass glued and shaping up ok.

The lid is also in preparation.

 

[mike-reid]

inspiring work again mate, nice 1!

 

[WoodAddict]

nice work dw. when you say handcut, was it a drill and coping saw job to get the diamond shapes?

 

[devonwoody]

nice work dw. when you say handcut, was it a drill and coping saw job to get the diamond shapes?

No, I did it the long way round, used the Japanese saw and cut the diagonals on blocks and strips, and used the sanding disk on the sander.

Would not perhaps rush to do it again, made my fingers and hands ache with rheumatism

 

[Sportique]

John,

I like this design - well done =D> =D> =D>

Dave

 

[WoodAddict]

nice work dw. when you say handcut, was it a drill and coping saw job to get the diamond shapes?

No, I did it the long way round, used the Japanese saw and cut the diagonals on blocks and strips, and used the sanding disk on the sander.

Would not perhaps rush to do it again, made my fingers and hands ache with rheumatism

ah I see now. I thought the strips were already glues on this pic but now I can see that they're not.

nice work

 

[devonwoody]

Sorry about the confusion. Thanks for the compliments.

 

[devonwoody]

Completed the diamond pattern tissue box apart from shellac and waxing which will be done tonight when its cooler.

(Couldn't resist putting it on the wife's laptop table :wink: )

The veneered box is awaiting the present heatwave to die down.