something new and seeking advice

[devonwoody]

First two photographs are of icecream sticks (Magnums) ,The timber is of very good quality and seems tobe a hardwood. What is it?
and a source?

How would you prepare it down to around 3mm thickness and par?

Secondly this new picture displays a box made and given to me this year by an Australian friend (AlexS at the Australian forum box maker section)
Also in photograph are four offcuts of mine from the bandsaw and timber is around 2 to 3mm thick, I shall attempt to make similar boxes but sand down after construction, or have you better ideas?

 

[Eric The Viking]

I've always assumed it to be beech. It's naturally anti-bacterial, I believe.

I, too, would love to know how they get the finish - it woldn't do to have customers with splinters!

[Later]Just found this: https://youtu.be/5Qo3o2oYx0E[/].
... and this one (actual production process): https://youtu.be/Ewu1LddQplY.
Despite the name of the first company, it looks like birch. There's a chap in video #2 slicing it into short logs.

[Even later]I just watched one of the production videos -- it's like something from the nineteenth century.

I daren't think about the accident rate they must have - highly labour intensive (so a lot of unskilled workers around the machines), no machine guards visible anywhere, and apparently not even protective gloves. Knives, stamping cutters, powered feed rollers you could easily get fingers trapped under...

... it isn't for any reason I can fathom apart from absolute maximum throughput, at the expense of the workers.

It's utterly disgusting that this goes on in the 21st century, and the owners are apparently proud of it.

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[NazNomad]

I would have said Birch.

 

[thick_mike]

Crikey, that video is awful!

 

[giantbeat]

looks like birch to me, not much protection of anything going on in those vids... not even ears.

 

[NazNomad]

I love the ''electric chainsaw wheelbarrow'' hybrid. :-D

 

[undergroundhunter]

I love the ''electric chainsaw wheelbarrow'' hybrid. :-D

Did you notice how it kept binding in the cut and stopping the blade! My god the whole operation is horrific.

Matt

 

[AndyT]

DW, if you want a source of similar thin wood, wooden Venetian blinds could be a good source.
I picked one up that had been chucked out. The slats are 50mm wide and 3mm thick, very clear and straight with a nice smooth surface. Pale wood, much like the lolly sticks, but maybe big enough to use for small boxes.

If you can't find one for free, they are pretty cheap to buy.

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks Andy.

(I might try my luck at the Pound shop. )

Made a box yesterday with some 4mm sapelle but got a breakout on top rebate edge when cutting the mitres.

 

[NazNomad]

I love the ''electric chainsaw wheelbarrow'' hybrid. :-D

Did you notice how it kept binding in the cut and stopping the blade! My god the whole operation is horrific.

I wonder how many times they got fed up with the belt slipping before they fitted the chain-drive to it? :-D

 

[devonwoody]

Back to the box, found some sapelle timber and cleaned it up to 4mm thickness, put through the router for base rebate and lid. The lid recess broke out at a corner but was able to get away with a slight repair.

 

[devonwoody]

Prepared some more boards, might make a set of three boxes for a jewellery box set.

 

[devonwoody]

Some progress, the project is evolving (on the hoof) and I have at the moment steering towards a jewellery box and some beech has been cut and prepared. the beech section will have two drawers and then a further box at the right hand end.

Pictures. dry run.

 

[devonwoody]

A little work more done to drawer section (hand cut 4mm beech).


glued.

top and drawers next, then another end box to make trio.

 

[Eric The Viking]

Looking very nice, DW.

 

[devonwoody]

Some more hand work and mitres done on table saw jig. Drawers butt jointed and flush drawer fronts to be added.

drawers butt jointed

end box made and positioned

The drawer section to have flush fronted drawers from slab showing..

 

[ColeyS1]

I like it ! Contrasting timbers look nice to !

Coley

 

[devonwoody]

That bit of beech for the drawer fronts has cupped, so got to find something else to replace.

 

[devonwoody]

Funny thing that bit if beech I mentioned was flat again Tuesday afternoon. It has been laying around prepared of at least 10 days and seemed stable and just the one day it cupped.

So cut it to size for drawer fronts and glued with Titebond 3 and a few dabs of super glue to hold it whilst setting,

photo

make some drawer pulls and knobs for the two boxes and nearing the end.