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TOPOMAX CHALLENGE

Blog series by kolwdwrkr updated 2 days ago 4 parts 1570 reads 52 comments total

Part 1: Blame Topomax....MUHAHAHA

66 days ago by kolwdwrkr | 8 comments »

Alright Topomax you’ve gone and done it!! Your “facetious” comment has given me the drive and motivation to improve on this “style” of box. I realized you were just kidding of course but the challenge was still there. I could feel it. LOL. So here we go, embarking on a journey that may or may not be successfull. Will it be padauk or wenge banding? Will it have a diamond like the last one or will it have some other pattern? Nobody knows for sure, but one thing...

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Part 2: Made some more progress

35 days ago by kolwdwrkr | 8 comments »

Well here is some new progress on the Topo Challenge. It is NOT glued together at this point. Just has a few pieces of tape to hold it together to get pics. I need to break it down and dado out the groove for the bottom. Then I need to sand profusely and then glue together. After that I plan on using Padauk to do all the corners, maybe. I’m digging the miters on this piece. The effort to get all the grain to line up all the way around has been fun, and adding the borders of padauk ma...

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Part 3: A little more done

20 days ago by kolwdwrkr | 13 comments »

I glued the box together, sanded it, then did the padauk border at the top and bottom. I tried to get some decent pics of the grain. I’m not a photographer, sorry.

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Part 4: another step forward

2 days ago by kolwdwrkr | 23 comments »

The person who is receiving this box is a skateboard enthusiast, and at 54 years young he’s pretty good at it. So I decided to make it a bit more person specific and added a skateboarder and his shadow. I’m pretty positive quite a few of you won’t like or appreciate the design or the fact that I put this on such a cool box, but it’s perfect for who it’s for. He’s going to love it, and that matters the most. There’s still quite a bit of work left o...

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