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17th November 2012, 02:57 PM #1
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My first Jewellery box - Silky Oak, inlay top.
Well I got volunteered by my darling wife to make a jewellery box for a girls night in Fundraiser for cancer, so here is my attempt...
I also must say that she decided this a week ago so any/all mistakes and imperfections I am going to blame on lack of time, lol.
The timber was all salvaged from a rubbish pile on a house reno, couldn't leave it there to be landfill...
OK so if there are no pictures it didn't exist so here it goes from the start.
Started with the lid, designed the inlay from a picture the missus gave me, the inlay timber is simply pine, it machines well and always does neat inlay.
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17th November 2012, 03:06 PM #2
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Now the two pieces are glued and clamped, then the inlay piece is roughed away until it can be sanded flush with the base timber.
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17th November 2012, 03:14 PM #3
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Now for the sides, I kept things simple, glued mitre's on the corners, glued the lid on then cut away a lid.
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17th November 2012, 03:18 PM #4
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For the bottom I used a piece of 7mm ply, since it is covered with felt top and bottom, didn't take a pic of that so you will have to take my word for it
Added all the finishing bits and lined the inside with felt, wasn't that a whole lot of fun, arg !
Any hoo, here is the finished product, the boss is happy with it and it will be raffled off tonight, talk about the nick of time !
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17th November 2012, 05:51 PM #5
Gee, if this is your first I can't wait to see the result when you get in a bit of practice! Very well done
Dave . . .
I believe in Murphy's Law of Pre-requisites - Whatever I want to do, I have to do something else first.
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17th November 2012, 07:53 PM #6
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Cheers Dave
Well as it turns out you won't have to wait long, my daughter is having a birthday in a weeks time so I have to have another done by then, but I have a head start on that one as I built most of it alonside this one, it is smaller but a bit nicer I reckon.
Russell.
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18th November 2012, 03:37 PM #7
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That is great!!
Is that done with CNC machine?
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18th November 2012, 07:12 PM #8
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Yup I built myself a bit of a clunker CNC router but it spits out some decent work at times.
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22nd November 2012, 10:07 PM #9
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Hi there Epineh. Very nice box. Any chance of a photo of your cnc router, I'd be interested in seeing it. I built myself an overhead router sled, which does a pretty good job, not brilliant but pretty good. It also has a sanding facility on it. There are photos of all this somewhere on this forum.
The thing I would like to try and build now is a drum sander.
Regards, Paul
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23rd November 2012, 12:15 AM #10
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Hi Paul, well as it turns out I don't have any decent pics of the machine as it is today, just some as it was being built, I do have a video, it may have to do.
I have done a few mods since this was taken but you get the idea.
Cheers.
Russell.
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