Domino box

[devonwoody]

I want to start another box so I can use my new tablesaw.

So Picture below is of a stack of dominoes, mine measure
150mm x 42mm x 31mm deep. 28 dominoes in a set.

Anyone want to put up and make different designed box to suit or suit there own size. ?

Might even make my own dominoes.!

 

[Gill]

Might even make my own dominoes.!

Why not? I've made my own chess pieces .

Once I've made the board, I'll certainly be making a box for the chess pieces too.

Gill

 

[devonwoody]

OK Gill,

Your in the chess class.

 

[George_N]

DW, those are very fancy loose tenons...do the spots give a greater glue surface? :lol:

 

[ByronBlack]

I thought this was going to be a festool project

 

[DomValente]

Me too.
Phew.

Dom

 

[devonwoody]

I started preparing some timber, an offcut of Sycamore but it does have a flaw buried in the block (some spelting) so the timber might be ditched.

So I planed and thicknessed up all surfaces and then put in the bandsaw (I had to change the blade after 12 months use, like parting with an old friend, but the underneath cut was angled and I couldn't correct the problem).
Then I made myself a sled with the intention of getting the timber down to a 5mm thickness.

BTW, the lazy susan is been worked on at the same time but delays occur whilst glue sets at each lid.

Perhaps its the quality of the timber but it did not come out very clean but not a disaster because I can cut out the pieces I need for a box and ditch the rough bits.

I then decided to use the sled again after cutting the lengths to a 35mm width on my new tablesaw. This time to obtain perfect widths of around 33mm. I have used some masking tape to hold the four piece together making a 20mm width which the thicknesser can accept.

So that is another technique that I shall remember for future use when working down to 5mm.

If interested I will keep the thread going.
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[ByronBlack]

I like the sled idea - I may steal this for my next project where I need to get down to 20mm on a lot of staves, my shoulders havn't recovered from flattening my workbench top yet

 

[devonwoody]

Put my new tablesaw to work today and cut all pieces shown accept the last cut to reduce ends to 42mm. I haven't got the confidence to hold a piece that small on the mitrte gauge for a cross cut (used an 80 tooth Perform blade that came gratis on a previous purchase from Axminster.

So next job is to make a table saw sled.

Did a dry trial run for part of the domino box as per pic

so glued the 5 pieces with a layer of dominoes in situ.( I hope they come out)

 

[Niki]

I haven't got the confidence to hold a piece that small on the mitrte gauge for a cross cut

Why not....
Do you remember this post
https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/view ... highlight=

So, here are a few more pics for using the same idea with the miter gauge.

The cut piece is only for demonstration (to make it "transparent"), make the sticks like the ones with the red anti-skid tape.

Congratulation on your new table saw

Regards
niki

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks again Niki,
I am going to stop making boxes, and start making jigs for a while.
Actually I have got three boxes on the go at the present time so I dont know when I can start making jigs!

 

[devonwoody]

Went to my scrapbox again today

selected the thick rectangular piece and put it to the bandsaw:

And got a nice book match. Unfortunately the wood is pretty wild and I lost one of the halves trying to thickness it down to 5mm.

Got one half left though.

In the meantime I thought I would be really brave and put the first box through the thicknesser upsidedown to reduce the thickness of the base because it was around 6mm and a bit rough on its face surface.

So its down to 4mm and still in one piece.

So perhaps in the future I will have lids with 3mm thicknesses!

BTW the next piece of replacement timber for the lost piece (bookmatch) I also lost including the sled, something happened and it smashed itself in the tunnel :roll:

So rebuilding a replacement sled at the moment.

 

[OPJ]

I must admit I'd be frightened by the though of using any machinery (besides the bandsaw) for a project with component which are this small. But thanks to Niki and yourself, I can see how much safer it actually can be to work like this. So, thank you!

 

[devonwoody]

Made the lid for the domino box yesterday evening and finished off today.
First picture shows the box before planing down and a bit taken off running through the table saw using the blade supplied by Axminster. Not a bad cut, the box not needing any clean up on edges apart from rubbing with a sanding block.

A top down view of the box with a view of the spalted Sycamore.

A side view .

And an inside view of the lid.

I also put the box through the thicknesser again 4 or 5 times with the dominoes in place and the lid on, This was done to all surfaces and the timber is down to around 3.5mm. All joints are straight butt, end grain to sides using Titebond 3. I will keep the forum informed if any joints fail over the distant future.
I will most probably give it a coat of shellac and wax.


Now a word of warning, if you play dominoes and your opponent keeps winning be aware that this commercial domino set (high quality) has a number of bits that have to be forced into the box.
The double six and the five/three. They are very slightly oversized and I have know doubt a professional gambler (thinking the River boat gamblers in the cowboy films) would be experienced enough to detect a very slightly oversized piece like they do with playing cards.
So my old grandma was right, she said never gamble with strangers.

Edit I missed off the pic. of the cut off lid portion, now added.

 

[Lukey]

I suppose that the problem with fabricating the box around the domioes....there is no tolerance?

 

[devonwoody]

I could have used a sheet of paper and got a bit of play that way.

But it worked out alright in the end.

 

[Fecn]

Yours is by far the nicest looking domino box I've seen