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Pastor needed a stash for his candy.... - bandit571 - 01-12-2017
Pastor needed a box to hide his stash of candy in....
while out of a rust hunt, I "picked' two boards, at a dollar apiece. Decided to resaw the Cherry slab down to make a small box
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Made with 1/2" thick planks of Cherry. Box joints were made with a saw, a chisel, and a mallet
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The panel in the lid, it was "raised" by using a handplane or two, ala Paul Sellers. Panel sits in a groove in the lid's frame. I rounded over the top edge of the lid, with a block plane
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Small Brass hinges. Tried to get the grain to show up, wound up sitting the box on a table, and letting the sunshine do it's thing..
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After a couple days.....let it sit there ( rotating to even things out) before delivery on a Sunday..
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It now sits on Pastor's Desk, hiding his stash of Candy from the kids at Church.
Not too bad for just old yard sale lumber?
I could do a bit about how this was built, if'n anyone wants me to...
RE: Pastor needed a stash for his candy.... - Bill_Houghton - 01-12-2017
Nice. I wonder how long it'll take for the kids to figure out where the stash is?
RE: Pastor needed a stash for his candy.... - bandit571 - 01-13-2017
Candy is still safe & sound.
Now, about the box build..
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After resawing the Cherry to thickness, planed to width, and the ends shot square, I laid out the spacing of the fingers by just using the chisel I was going to chop then out with. First set of lines, I backsawed to split the lines. Once the waste was chopped out, I used those fingers to lay out the matching ones. Then I cut on the waste side, and chopped the waste out, again...test fitting as I went..
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I also needed a groove for the bottom panel to sit in..
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About the best way to plough a groove
The panel for the bottom was just a glued up Pine slab. I used the 45 to match a tongue on the edges.
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Bottom done, sides fit. Glued things up. Then set about making a lid...Stay tuned
RE: Pastor needed a stash for his candy.... - Arlin Eastman - 01-13-2017
You did well Bandit. Also I know all you use for any and all builds is all hand tools ever and I like that and hope to do it some day
What was the finish on it again? Was it still wet when the picture was taken?
RE: Pastor needed a stash for his candy.... - bandit571 - 01-13-2017
Finish was 1 coat of BLO/Varnish mix, then 2 coats of Poly Gloss. Between the BLO and the sunshine, the cherry just seemed to "POP".
RE: Pastor needed a stash for his candy.... - Timberwolf - 01-15-2017
(01-13-2017, 08:18 PM)bandit571 Wrote: Finish was 1 coat of BLO/Varnish mix, then 2 coats of Poly Gloss. Between the BLO and the sunshine, the cherry just seemed to "POP".........................
VERY nice work!!!!!!!!!!
RE: Pastor needed a stash for his candy.... - Steve N - 01-15-2017
Positively SINFUL
The pastor having that tempting candy laying around
RE: Pastor needed a stash for his candy.... - bandit571 - 01-16-2017
Ok, about that lid. I made a raised panel to sit in a frame. panel was "raised" with a hand plane or two..
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I marked a line about 1" in from the edges, and about 1/4" from the back of the panel. I planed at a diagonal to the grain until a bevel appears. I start with the end grain ends first. Then repeats for the edge grain on the long sides. Where the two bevels meet, there is supposed to be a nice, straight line in the corners..
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The frame to hold the lid's panel is box jointed like the box, had to match up where the fingers were. A groove had been milled around on the inside, to house the panel...took a few tries to get the fit just right..
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Once the lid was all nicely glued up, I could fit it to the box....
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Before the glue up could happen, I used a small plane to round over the top edges of the sides...
Once both were done, I could clamp the two together in the vise, and plane them to match each other. Box was a hair wider...., then a couple of hinges and a latch were added. And then the finish. I let the box sit on the table, where sunlight could "bake" the Cherry to a nice red colour. I left the insides un-finished, as I didn't know what was going inside. Turns out it was Pastor's stash of candy...