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And things were going so well.

Doing a set of turned lidded boxes - in recycled old growth redwood - for a charity auction. Had one done - the smallest of the set of 3, the medium sized one waiting for the epoxy to dry on the finial to lid joint and the third, largest one almost ready for drilling the hole in the lid for the finial tenon.

Despite caveats in the One Procedure for Turning a Lidded Box I put together and posted earlier to a.b.p.w., I didn't check the wall thickness as frequently as I should have. Got wrapped up in watching what was happening to the inside wall - sanding and looking if the previous grit's scratches were gone, that I forgot to check the wall thickness. BIG mistake.

Will make it a point to include the pics I've posted in alt.binaries.pictures.woodwkring - same subject line as this message - on the appropriate page of the instructions once I get them up on my web site.

Check wall thickness often - or suffer the consequences.

charlie b

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charlie b
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Ccharlie Sounds like a box as big as all outdoors. I have a few like that.

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Darrell Feltmate

I live in Eureka, CA. Redwoods everywhere here. There's a guy a few miles away that sells burl on-line. Actually there's a few of them around, but he is closest and has a cargo container full of burl, curly and birds-eye redwood blocks, 12"x12"x12" or around that size. I'm still growing balls big enough to purchase and chuck one up on the lathe. It's hard to pick out a block too. The grain is going every which way. They also have 3 or 4 bins full of waste redwood that is free for the picking. It's mostly end pieces, crotches and odd shaped stuff they don't have time to deal with. A little chain saw and band saw work makes them into useable lathe material for me. I'm going to dull my turning tools on those first especially after seeing what happened to you with your turning experience. I made a rolling pin from one a couple weeks ago. Bonus points with the wife ;). I'll post a picture so you can see what typical wood looks like in case you're interested. Pretty rough amateur level work, but hey a step up from file handles.. You can imagine much nicer looking handles with coves and beads, I'm sure..

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Jim Hall

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William Noble

Great idea. Tried that. But when you have 1/8th inch walls - and less

- and your in the hemispherical paft of the lid - and it's redwood

-well the choices narrow down pretty quickly. But I tried anyway - and blew up the rest of the lid (surprise!) SO - I removed the lip on the bottom part and now I have - drum roll please ----- a short cup, desk organizer, small bonsai tree pot, . . .

Jim:

Do / did you own a Robland X31 or have a relative who lived/lives in Tahoe who makes guitars?

charlie b

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charlie b

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Jim Hall

another thing that works well is a band of silver, or brass, or bronze, or even gold (gold filled sheet is not very expensive) or cut a clean, or a purposefully ragged edge on both pieces and space them apart with stainless wire, or ..... there are so many ways - one of the pieces I have in a local gallery that I like a lot came about because I was turning a thin walled ash bowl and there was a flaw in the wood, so the top shattered - cut it straight and it shattered again - so I stopped and cut the edges into a wave shape, colored it, and it looks really great - of course I still need someone to buy it, but it looks good......

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William Noble

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