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General Category => Brag Forum => Topic started by: Rapid Roger on March 20, 2013, 10:41:33 am
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I don't post in the brag section much but, I entered a wood working challenge on another forum and thought some people might enjoy seeing my project.
The "challenge" was to make something using only one board foot of wood. That sounds kind of hard for some people but, a board foot is 144 cubic inches of wood, and if you cut it just right, it can be enough to do a lot with. The item could be made of any wood or even several kinds of wood.
I saw a project on WWMM (Wood Working for Mere Mortals) that Steve did. He made a jewelry box that looked like a book and that inspired me to give it a try. As I was working on a prototype of the box, a friend dropped by and suggested that it would be a good place to keep his "home defense weapon". well, the only thing better than a good idea is TWO good ideas and then this "challenge" came up and as they say, the rest is history!
Being somewhat of a scroll saw user and member of this forum, I thought my project might inspire other people to try new and different things once in awhile.
http://s193.photobucket.com/user/rapidroger/library/War%20and%20Peace
The book measures 7" x 10" x 1-1/2" and totals 105 cubic inches (well with in the limit) and is made of 5/8 birch plywood for the center section, 1/4" cherry plywood for the covers and a piece of solid cherry for the spine. I cut the letters and stained them with cherry stain and recessed them about 1/64" on the scroll saw. I cut the center area by stack cutting the two "page" sections and lined them with peel & stick felt. The spine was drilled for the hinge and then cut down the center in such a way as to form the hinge sections using the scroll saw also. The hinge pin is just two pieces of 1/8" brass rod inserted from each end and plugged.
The title was suggested by my friend who now owns the box/book. ;D
Hope this gives inspiration to others to try using a scroll saw in different ways.
Rog
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Very nice, I like the idea.
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That is just a wonderful example of true creativity and craftsmanship.
Superb piece of woodworking!!!
~~~GB~~~
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Very nice and very Clever!!!!! Well done Roger!
Tommy T
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excellent work. neat title too.
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Beauty. I like the hinge, and the plywood looks very page-like.
Woody Allen said he once took a speed reading course. He read War and Peace in 30 minutes. It was about Russia.
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Excellent project :) looks beautiful ,the title is that done by a router?
Mahendra
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Excellent ,Reading the right material ,offers real protection !!
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Nice one indeed. Thanks for sharing with us.
Al
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And I Thank you for showing and also giving (me) us a different outlook on what
we might do with our Hobby.... Danny :+}
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Amazing, great idea, besides being very well done, thanks for sharing
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Awesome work, well done.
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Excellent project :) looks beautiful ,the title is that done by a router?
Mahendra
No, I did it with the scroll saw. I tilted the table to 20 degrees, cut the letters out going in the counter clock wise direction (I did the insides of the "A"s, "R", "P" first by going in the clock wise direction) and stained them with cherry stain before re inserting them back into the cover and recessing them about 1/64" below the surface. Then sanded the back side down smooth where the letters were standing proud. The felt hides the back side from inside the box.
I like working with the router but, I,m not THAT good. :D
Rog
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Very clever, I didn't expect that when I read the cover!
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Wow, that is really cool. Thanks for sharing it.
Pete
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Nice work Roger!
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Awesome piece , very nice ...Pete
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great job Roger
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great job, love the idea.
as a kid we used old books and make secret hiding places this way.
now making them out of wood is awesome idea!
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I will give it the "very clever" factor. I like it.
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Wow one word OUTSTANDING!
Roly
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Great job, I like it. Thanks for sharing. :)