What are you working on?

[Bucko]

I'm getting a start on Christmas request from my wife for gifts for her to give. The finished Ribbon Box is my first/practice box and I'm working on 2 hopefully good ones now. One from the same Cherry as the practice box and the other is Box Alder. The gift boxes I'm making with the lid to go down over the bottom of the box so as to have the full Ribbon to travel with the lid. I rarely post pictures but I view the site quite often, this and wooden vehicles is the type of wotk that I prefer to do. Thanks -Buck

[Guest]

Those look great, Bucko. Thanks for posting the photos.

[Bill Wilson]

Great looking box, Bucko. Is that one of Carole Rothman's designs?

[Bucko]

Thanks so much for the replies, great topic to see some fine work in progress. Yes it is from Carole Rothmans book, my goal is to have a total of 12 boxes of different design from her books . I'm concentrating on having an even ribbon thickness on these boxes as an improvement from my practice box.

[daddo]

Right now, absolutely nothing going on in the shop except cleaning and sharpening and organizing here and there. I did want a fridge in the shop and had an old upright freezer sitting in another building, so I changed the thermostat out and turned it into a refrigerator.

[meackerman]

A 20'x20' storage building for my tractor stuff and other stuff that's been sitting in the carport.

[Bibliophile 13]

I haven't been working on much of anything aside from wooden spoons. That's partly because my oldest daughter has been hogging the workspace so she can build stuff for herself. She just finished a bookshelf for her bedroom.






Here's the full build-along blog post.


It's pretty cool to see one's kids picking up the craft, even if it means I don't get much of my own stuff done. <img src="/ssl_proxy.php?url=/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowsmile.gif[/img]

[Guest]

Steve,

That's wonderful. My daughter enjoy's the shop when she's in town. We have done several projects together, but she has never shown any interest in building anything by herself. I would be happy to give up som shop time to her if she wanted it.

Hank

[CLETUS]

I've got some hickory setting in the shop for a father and son project I've been wanting to do.... but no free time.

[jteneyck]

I've got quite a few projects going on. I did a small one today and it's nice to cross one off the list. I repaired some damaged veneer on a MCM cabinet. Fortunately, the owner had a matching piece of furniture that he didn't want and wasn't interested in selling or giving away, so I was able to retrieve some veneer from it. I cut a section of it apart, bandsawed off the veneer and backer veneer, then drum sanded the backer smooth. That left me with a perfect match for the repair, including the finish. All I had to do was install it.

Here's what the piece looked like.



I've already routed the section on the left that was damaged. It was worse than what you see on the right. Here's a close up of the right section. You can see where I cut score lines for the repair. I routed up to the score lines as close as possible and then used a chisel to trim the scrap clean.



I used my trim router with a 1/2" mortising bit and a 1/4" piece of plywood with a hole in it to bridge across the damaged section. The plywood is not attached to the router; I just held it with my left hand and the router in my right and moved them together. Also, you can see the veneer patch material near the right corner on the top of the cabinet.



I cut the veneer patches just a hair long and then glued them in place with TB II.



After 30 or 40 minutes I removed the clamps and trimmed the patches flush top and bottom with a piece of sandpaper on a wood block.





Total time 90 minutes, of which I worked about 30, plus 30 minutes to get the veneer patch material. Sometimes fast and easy is good.

John