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Another on-the-fly Joinery project - C. in Indy - 12-18-2023
(Monday AM, newly unemployed)
"Oh that Magic Feeling; Nowhere to Go"
- The Beatles; You Never Give Me Your Money
A new project is now "in my head".... I'll see if I can make it work.
First cut, with sassafras aromas arising from the shiny vintage Atkins saw:
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RE: Another on-the-fly Joinery project - Stwood_ - 12-18-2023
And we're off..................on another fine C. in Indy project
RE: Another on-the-fly Joinery project - C. in Indy - 12-19-2023
Thanks for the vote of confidence !
"While the rest of them dudes was makin' their bread
Buddy beg your pardon I was losin' mine! "
- Mountain, Mississippi Queen
This is a bit of a proof of concept, but with finite material, I'm kind of committed already; not to rule out a lot of tweaking.
My Dad's military-honors flag could use a new case, so that's what I'm hoping to do.
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RE: Another on-the-fly Joinery project - C. in Indy - 12-21-2023
Working a little closer to a plan.
The flag is carefully wrapped to avoid getting dust on it.
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RE: Another on-the-fly Joinery project - C. in Indy - 01-01-2024
Happy New Year!
I had some time away to clear the head a bit.
Moving forward, trying to execute some details and recover from some setbacks (some moron broke off a corner of the glass triangle...).
The bottom angle joinery was tack-glued pretty good, then buttressed with some cross dowels. All to be leveled out with a nice skew plane:
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For making the upper wood pieces look a bit thicker (and to support and conceal glass-piece borders), I recovered some off-cuts to glue and look sort of like it was never cut to begin with:
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Happy woodworking!
Chris
RE: Another on-the-fly Joinery project - bandit571 - 01-01-2024
Looks good to me!
RE: Another on-the-fly Joinery project - C. in Indy - 01-02-2024
Thanks!
More stuff these last days:
The laminated sides planed down pretty decent; almost can't see those joints.
As mentioned, a real "OOPS" moment when I stepped on the darn glass.
I pondered a thick lower wood border, then later realized I could style it and lighten it a bit, and still cover the missing glass corner:
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I was sort of OK with the joinery shape, but it was a bit "too much" in the Route 66 / southwest style, so I shortened the proud fingers a bit:
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At this point I'm cleaning up and looking forward to further finishing, as well as a custom fitment of the glass panel:
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Happy New Year!
RE: Another on-the-fly Joinery project - Stwood_ - 01-04-2024
Nice OOPS!! recovery!
RE: Another on-the-fly Joinery project - C. in Indy - 01-07-2024
Thanks!
I've been house-bound with the Flu, so I have been able to pretty much wrap the thing.
For the back, I looked and looked for some semi-rigid wood or plywood. Turns out, on my 2022 guitar build project, I set aside the "kit" mahogany in favor of some nice straight walnut I had. So now the mahogany back is finally finding a use:
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Here it's joined up similar to how it would be joined on a guitar back:
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Here's the final assembly. During the installation of the hallowed flag (dating to my Dad's 2009 funeral), I heard clinking, and I found neatly enclosed in the folds was a pack of bullet casings from the military salute.
For the moment, I have set it on the 2019 wine-cabinet project:
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Thanks for watching!