Lathe Collet Chuck Box.

Boys and Girls,

 

OMG, I nearly had to call upon my life saver  when I found out I haven’t posted it, or at least I couldn’t find it, and after copious searches I still couldn’t… until now that I’ll have posted it, I don’t need it and can instead, complacently suck on an alternative,

I had, what turned out to be, a very quick perusal of this project posted on LJ  on June 2020, and was totally gobsmacked with the content. 

While I have no great affinity to making boxes, however, I have megaless love for bloody short narratives, and that fell into the non-political category of efen tiny.

I will not insult myself by repeating, but if you are a masochist, feel free to peruse the LJ link above (↑).

 

I refuse to repeat my transgressions, so after my mea culpa, mea culpa, mea bloody big maxima culpa, underturd 

undeterred, I’ll bore yazall to tears with what may be a prolonged liturgy here.

 

In preparation, I had a look at my happy snaps of the event and another gobsmacking left me winded.  Bugga all pickies, however, I shall drag it out like I did my love life in my youth.

I was just a tad pissed with the cardboard box my Beall Collet chuck was shipped in and at the time, though a timber replacement was in order. 

Dragged out the Incra jig 

and made a few sides that eventually morphed into a box,

and a few laser cuts out of 6mm MDF, provided a stable seating for the pieces,

During the finger cutting, I chopped a finger off... ran around like a decapitated chook until I realised the lack of blood and the missing finger was on one of the box's sides.  A shaped piece of wood, PVA glue,

flush cut saw and sanding made it disappear.   Not quite a Petey cutting board rescue,

but this was done years ago before his redemption.
 
Now that was for the large set, however, this blog started off with the small set that I used the original foam packing from the cardboard box into a customised smaller box,

 

Now that smaller set came with a set of collete spanners, that were added onto the box as an afterthought,

 

I’m not one to embellish, however, it seems that I might have strived to impress someone about some contrasting timber. No name comes to mind other, however the walnut embellishment was ego added for no other reason than looks,

Both finished with wipe-on poly.

At the end of the day, the two boxes still managed to get filed away,

Fortunately this collet set came with its own box,

saving me a bucketload of hassles.

 

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