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General Category => Brag Forum => Topic started by: countryscroller on August 07, 2013, 07:59:54 pm
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That feeling of relief you get when the customer likes it. After a whole darn week I finally got this done, mixed in between doing a whole bunch of other stuff.
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Good job Dustin, nice corner joints!
Pete
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That's some delicate inlay work! Nice job.
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Excellent work Dustin. Love the box. Thanks for sharing this with us.
DW
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Thanks all, and yes Becky especially the spider. Most nerve racking thing I have made.
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I can believe that! Yikes! :o
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nice work Dustin
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Excellent work, I really liked the junctions of the box, thanks for sharing. ;)
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Fine looking box - I really like the joints as well. What angle do you cut at for your inlays? Like the contrast as well.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
Al
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Very cool!!! Well done Dustin! The inlay looks fantastic!
Tommy T
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Thanks all and Al I find that when doing inlay with two 1/4" pieces, 3 degrees seems to be the angle that works. Of course if you are doing inlay with a hard wood like purple heart or even a maple, be sure to not push or force the blade to cut or it will change the angle and the fit will be either too loose or too tight. Since I glued the inlay pieces on to another piece to create a 1/2" thickness, it didn't matter if the inlay went perfectly, I just pounded it in to make sure it was in there. It may have sat about a 1/32" proud on the surface, but who cares, just sand it away and cover the backside and no one knows.
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Your hard work may be seen. To use two colors of wood is very nice.
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Nice finger joints and great inlay work. Is that pine and purpleheart?
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Thanks and yes Ray it is. See the customer wanted purple heart in it after they saw how the bowls came out that I made them, so they wanted it in the box too. But they didn't want it to cost a lot in wood, so I decided to make the majority out of cheap pine that I got from lowes and the left over purple heart from the bowls. I know it sounds weird mixing a hard wood and a soft wood in a project.
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Not at all. It looks great. I'm sure they will be happy with the results.
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Dustin that is excellent. You excelled yourself this time.
Marg
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Did you do anything special for the finger joints? Is it manual or done with a jig?
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Did you do anything special for the finger joints? Is it manual or done with a jig?
It is manual, I just drew them on there and cut them on the scroll saw. When I get a router, I want to also get a dove tail jig so I can make those as well.
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The dovetails are nice looking, but with the modern glues it looks like the finger joint is just as strong and a lot easier to cut. Here's a test of joint strength:
http://woodgears.ca/dovetail/strength.html (http://woodgears.ca/dovetail/strength.html)
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Dang they can hold a lot of pressure, even being a soft wood testing it with. Thanks for sharing that. Since the piece I was using was purple heart and I didn't have much, I just use a simple finger joint instead of experimenting with a more detailed way it looks. With future work I will cut more complex joints to see how they look in work.
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WOW! you did a fantastic job Dustin!!
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Greate Job you did, Looks good.
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great box, really nice job!