[Beatles] Quando para mucho mi a More Ray... Medullary

[C. in Indy]

With apologies to the Beatles'  "Sun King"...

I want to make a very small box, and with small boxes comes the need for fine grain.


Last year's  " 'He mocks me,' Boards were heard to say" project used some very nice QS oak:

   


I wanted to get some of those medullary rays into a small project.   The remaining lumber was minimal, but we're now off to a start:

Resawing thin wood activity:

   


Gluing up wider mini-planks,  flattening with a Holm Oak French plane with a few rays of its own...

   



Until the rays converge...

[C. in Indy]

Man, what a long week at work, and I was itching to get back to the wood bench the whole time.
Still I didn't have a lot of time, but I decided to do the "dovetails before dinner" quick work routine.

The nice DT marking gauge is custom-made from Mike Brady

   

[C. in Indy]

It did go pretty quick after that.  Not only with the nice gauge from Mike, but also by ganging boards when I cut the tails.

Later I rabbeted a basic chamfered top pine/fir piece to fit, and did a bit of "schmutz and shellac" for a finish.... Ready to hold small trinkets!

   

[Mike Brady]

It did go pretty quick after that.  Not only with the nice gauge from Mike, but also by ganging boards when I cut the tails.

Later I rabbeted a basic chamfered top pine/fir piece to fit, and did a bit of "schmutz and shellac" for a finish.... Ready to hold small trinkets!

Glad you found it usefull Chris.  Those recent projects are excellent.

[TomFromStLouis]

Nice box although I am surprised you found white oak to be "fine grain". I think of that as what Hoadley called "diffuse porous" like fruitwoods or maple. Either way, it does make a fine looking box!