This was something I wanted to try. I thought it might be an interesting look. I spent almost as much time repairing this project, as I did building it.
After glueing up the panels I glued them to the corner posts and trimmed the top and bottom flush on the table saw. That resulted in bad chip-out on the face of one of the corner pieces.
I had to cut off the chipped face of that post and glue another piece on to repair it.
Then I had a corner snap off on the inside of the box because my dados might have been a little too tight, and I repaired that.
Also the top was not what I had hoped it would look like. The walnut band seemed to blend into the oak and was hard to look at. I think the colors of the oak flecks matched some of the colors in the walnut band and that made the joint between them look blurry to me. I should have used anther strip of maple to separate them.
To repair it I was going to try and cut a dado and fill it with maple using my laser, but I decided to burn a line instead. The black line was what it needed to separate the two woods. In my opinion, it kind of worked, though not as good as the maple would have.
You would think this must be the last thing that occurred while trying to finish this box. Nope, I had just about run out of lacquer, so I ordered some of my regular lacquer I normally use "DEFT". They changed the product. I even posted a review to warn others. I ended up using Minwax suggested by Pottzie.
John... that looks good to me! When you did your end grain side panels did you cut each piece and glue up to form the panel or did you glue up boards to make a panel and slice off? What was your approach in making the box sides?
Thanks Larry I appreciate the compliment as well as the help with the lacquer.
Thanks Tom
Thanks very much Bruce.
Thanks Rick. I had a stick of QSWO about 2’ long that was a left over. I trimmed it 1” square and cut slices. I had no idea what I was going to make until I laid out as many squares as I had. Once I knew what I had to work with I glued them up in one long panel approximately 3”x16” then cut them into 4 separate panels.
Appreciate it Steve.
Thank you Chuck.
Thanks Ryan.
BTW, I’ve read your review on the Super Cell several times and I’m talking myself into one.
Thanks George, sometimes it works out OK even when you’re not doing the expected.
Thank you Mike. I just turned 72 and I find myself hiding lots of things lately.
An interesting read Awsum, I just goes to show with a little thinking inside the box you can produce some most attractive features. Your skills and application of recovering from all the demoralising "glitches" reminded me of my Jewelery box finishing and cutting board chip outs, so I can relate first hand to the "roadblocks' that seem to appear when working a little un conventionally. Timber orientation being the biggest test of a persons KSA to overcome, along with (rant alert!) our ever changing product suppliers. Timbermate, various glues and tradition finishes changing names compositions and suppliers, Sickens comes to mind along with Liberon Products, and general rebranding from a know and recognizable product label, now add the introduction of the the micro dot technology used to show directions is a little maddening to say the least. Almost making you be a budding Sherlock Holmes and have a magnification Glass in you back pocket when shopping these days.
Looks great , John. Very unique!! I love new ideas likethat!! The great repair is a sign of a true craftsman!! You have me thinking on that one...what if you had a BIG log that you could get the end grain out of one piece??? you could choose how to locate the pattern on each face!!!
Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day
Really interesting box eye catching and worth the effort to build. Well done and thanks for the write up and the repair part, I always have redo areas myself, glad someone else does too. Well done overall, turned out great.
Thanks Petey it was a fun design as you go experiment.
Thanks George.
Very kind of you Ivan.
Scrap, they put a new nozzle on their cans. The product claims to be the same. However either the can has too much pressure or the new nozzle stinks. I couldn’t get it to spray like I was used to. Now if a spray can doesn’t have the soft blue plastic nozzle, I don’t buy it.
Thanks Barb, I really like white oak, so I keep just about every scrap.
Nice of you to say Rob. I worked in advertising before computers were being used to set type. I cut up letters to set up mechanicals for printers. That is how type was added to products. When directions in Spanish started to be mandatory, we had to fit the same words in the same space, twice. Naturally everything got smaller and smaller until, like you say, it’s too small to read!
Nice idea Jim, that would be unique to say the least. But you might have problems with using the pith. It usually gives me fits with cracking.
Thanks Dutchy.
Thanks a lot Ron. The older I get the more ways I find to fix the mistakes I make. I also think it’s good not to hide problems from others that might just be starting out. I know I enjoyed when someone told me how they fixed something that went wrong.
