794 days ago
by Ethan |
7 comments »
The box so far:- I’ve dimensioned the lumber and cut the miters- I cut the lid and bottom panels to size, cut rabbets into the lid, and glued suede cloth to the inside of the bottom panel and veneered a piece of white oak to the outside of the bottom panel- I inlaid the bog oak square and cut the oval for the red jasper cab- I glued up the box
That takes us to this…
You can see some of the nail and worm holes in the sides and lid; I could have left that out of the design, bu...
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828 days ago
by Don |
10 comments »
[I posted this as a comment here.]
A beautiful joint with no end-grain showing and really simple – right? NO!
Well the first part is right – they are attractive, but making a good miter joint is not as easy as it looks. And they get more difficult than just matching two 45 degree cuts together – there’s the compound miter joint that introduces another angel, or the mitered dovetail joint, and many other variations – all difficult to make.
I can always make a three-sided picture frame...
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