As relative newbie here, I thought I'd post a couple of small bits of past work for you lovely lot to check out.
First up is this display shield I made about 4 years ago, for my parents alumni association. Each year the organisation elects a president, and at the end of their term of office their name and year is engraved on a silver medal bar, and the bar is added to the neck band of the badge of office.
After 48 years this was getting a bit too heavy to wear, so an alternative way of displaying the medal and bars at the annual metting was required.
The bars are set into slots routed in the shield, and held in with hot melt glue, so they can be easily removed if they're heated with a soldering gun, but they're pretty firmly anchored in place otherwise.
I laid out the outline, and all the slots using photoshop. Once I was happy with the layout, I printed the template and stck it to to a mahogany blank, and routed the slots using a simple template, running the shank of the cutter against a piece of MDF with stops to set the length of cut. Amazingly I cut all 68 slots without a wobble or wander!
The finish is Rustin's Plastic coating, and the shield is supported on a simple mahogany a-frame, half lappedand held on with a small brass hinge.
Second is a simple mitred jewellery box, a birthday present for by brothers other half. It's oak salvaged from drawer sides from a knocked to bits sideboard, and the top and base are MDF veneered with curly maple. The inlay line is either wenge or pau ferro, which is probably a controversial choice inlight of recent forum discussions...
Equally controversially, the mitres and rebated lid were cut on my tiny benchtop milling machine, using an XY vice and a 45 degree router cutter. I did build a shooting board during the construction of this, but it has no donkeys ear, so planing the mitres wasn't possible
First up is this display shield I made about 4 years ago, for my parents alumni association. Each year the organisation elects a president, and at the end of their term of office their name and year is engraved on a silver medal bar, and the bar is added to the neck band of the badge of office.
After 48 years this was getting a bit too heavy to wear, so an alternative way of displaying the medal and bars at the annual metting was required.
The bars are set into slots routed in the shield, and held in with hot melt glue, so they can be easily removed if they're heated with a soldering gun, but they're pretty firmly anchored in place otherwise.
I laid out the outline, and all the slots using photoshop. Once I was happy with the layout, I printed the template and stck it to to a mahogany blank, and routed the slots using a simple template, running the shank of the cutter against a piece of MDF with stops to set the length of cut. Amazingly I cut all 68 slots without a wobble or wander!
The finish is Rustin's Plastic coating, and the shield is supported on a simple mahogany a-frame, half lappedand held on with a small brass hinge.
Second is a simple mitred jewellery box, a birthday present for by brothers other half. It's oak salvaged from drawer sides from a knocked to bits sideboard, and the top and base are MDF veneered with curly maple. The inlay line is either wenge or pau ferro, which is probably a controversial choice inlight of recent forum discussions...
Equally controversially, the mitres and rebated lid were cut on my tiny benchtop milling machine, using an XY vice and a 45 degree router cutter. I did build a shooting board during the construction of this, but it has no donkeys ear, so planing the mitres wasn't possible
