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Can't stop making these things

Unlike other types of woodworking, turning lends itself nicely to doing variations of on an idea - in a relative hurry - with not much wood. That's the nice thing about turning. The problem is stopping. Why not do that idea in almond? Add an inside lid with finial. Add a contrasting wood base. Make the finials with two or more types of wood - the variations can be endless

-and easy to do.

Posted some pics of the current crop in a.b.p.w. - same subject line as this post.

Next up, some sculpting with a small sanding disk. Then maybe some piercing - oh and some inlaying might be interesting - maybe epoxy in an amathyst cabachon on the lid instead of a finial . . .

I've got all this quarter sawn English Sycamore waiting to become doors and drawer faces for the kitchen cabinets I should be working on - but this turned lidded boxes thing . . .

charlie b

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charlieb
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Ahhhhhh, the joys of addiction! It feels so good, don't it?

Do yourself a favor. Rather than spend valuable box making time making kitchen cupboards, use the yellow pages and find someone to do it for you! Takes much less time than making the damn things and everybody ends up happy...think of all the extra boxes you could make!!

Mike snipped-for-privacy@toymakersite.com

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Mike R. Courteau

I guess you've never spent hours laying out boards, flipping them, sliding them, turning them - to get just the right grain pattern and alignment for a door panel or a pair of panels. And you've probably never gone through the agony - and ectasy of continuous grain pattern acrossed two, three or four adjacent drawer faces or spent time getting just the right graduations for a set of three or four graduated drawers.

Making and assembling the parts is fun - but working out the grain alignment is what can take a nice piece, even kitchen cabinets, from good to NICE and sometimes REALLY NICE!

Besides, because I inherited a bunch of extremely nice chinese rosewood furniture, the kitchen is the only place left that for which I can make furniture, albeit "just" kitchen cabinets. (do I get points from the english majors for avoiding a dangling preposition?) NOTHING I'll ever make will come close to the look of the chinese pieces, or the quality of the craftsmanship. But I've done some pretty nice "shop" furniture

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and some "outdoor furniture"
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Fun stuff this woodworking thing. So many ways to go, so many techniques to learn - so many types of wood to play with!

charlie b

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charlieb

My first "real" woodworking project was my router table. There are a half dozen drawers with plywood fronts. I marked the pieces to keep the plywood "grain" aligned. For reasons I no longer recall I cut an extra front for the smaller upper drawers. You can probably guess... I didn't notice until the finish was dry and the "spare" drawer front cut up for a jig that the grain was messed up. Yup, I used the spare in place of the top drawer front. ;-)

-- Mark

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Mark Jerde

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