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12-26-2018, 07:26 PM
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I needed a couple last minute gifts for a friend & her two daughters. My friend gets the walnut keepsake box, and her girls get the spalted quartersawn sycamore boxes. The sycamore was an unexpected gift from a WN friend.
I really like this place...
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Happy New Year, everyone!
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Look real good.... love the design.
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Beautiful workmanship.
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Very nice!!!! Your friend and daughters are very lucky.
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Love it! I've been trying to get some qtr sawn sycamore for the last 3 years and can't find a yard that has it.
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LAST MINUTE (x3) ??? Sure looks like a like a lot of production time; that would take me forever.
Well done. Are the tops veneer (marquetry) or parquet (solid strips) ?
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12-27-2018, 10:05 AM
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Nicely done
Lots of quality workmanship, especially on those tops.
Bravo
Is that spray suede inside?
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Thanks guys!
The tops are made with solid wood diamonds set/glued in place individually. A simple tablesaw jig makes cutting them rather easy, and doing a quarter of the top at a time really doesn't take too long to set the pieces in place. The "hardest" part is making sure you use the right species in the right place and checking grain direction. The smaller lids took
maybe an hour each, the larger a little longer only due to having more diamonds...
They're all lined with spray-in flocking, although my "spray-in" device is the cardboard pump they make for that purpose. It usually works pretty well as long as you use enough "glue"...
Thanks again for the nice comments!
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(12-27-2018, 12:11 PM)Big Dave Wrote: A simple tablesaw jig makes cutting them rather easy,
They're all lined with spray-in flocking
Can you expand on these two statements? Maybe a picture of the jig or process? I googled spray in flocking and the results centered around Christmas trees.
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Flocking gun kit.
https://www.rockler.com/mini-flocker-app...gKFsvD_BwE
And there are also higher end, more expensive guns.
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