| Project by Hacksaw007 | posted 48 days ago | 282 views | 1 time favorited | 5 comments |  |
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A fun piece to make. A cherry turned box (do you call these boxes?) with a Corian lid. My first try with the Corian material. Very hard on the lathe tools, makes the weirdest looking swarf, almost like a string and feathers?! Didn’t like turning it, but did like sanding it. The Corian got like it was wet smooth! Added an original Bill Blass brass knob on the top. The cherry was some off of a 50 year old board that my grandfather had setting around. It was just big enough to get this “box” out of. The smell of this old air dried cherry was wonderful. They should make a bathroom air freshener that smells like this for all of us Lumberjocks! Finished the wood with 3 coats of conversion varish (sprayed). Hand rubbed it out to be soooo smooth. My wife has claimed it so I was not able to sell it. Alas, so many projects end up in her hands…. Thanks for viewing.
-- Hacksaw007
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Mike
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posted 48 days ago
Great job, it looks really nice. Thanks for sharing.
-- Mike, VT
JerryS
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posted 48 days ago
Very nice combo of wood and corian ,they work well together . Did you use 1/2 conrian for the lid ?
a1Jim
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posted 47 days ago
Unique box well done.
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com
Berg
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posted 46 days ago
The Corian is nice touch. Can you tell us how you mounted it, etc. for turning?
Nicely done.
-- Berg, Central NH & Gulfport, FL - "It's raining...what a beautiful day to puddle jump" 3y/o Devlyn
Hacksaw007
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posted 46 days ago
Well, not knowing any better, and not having the right stuff to hold it, I used a bolt through the top with a washer, two nuts and my drill chuck. You have to be superman to tighten it down enough to hold it straight. Having a chuck for my small lathes, I am not sure that you could hold one with it anyway. Maybe if you dovetailed the inside of the lid to be held with the chuck. A friend noted that you can use your flat plate for the lathe, glue a piece of paper on the face, and then glue the corian on to the paper. This makes some sense, but you would have to use a place smaller than the inside lip of the lid, so that you could size that lip on the bottom of the lid. A simple process to sand off the paper when done. Corian sands like hard wood, you just have to go up the grits higher to get that wet look. Next time I do one this is what I willl try. A question was ask what thickness was the corian, I believe it was 1/2 inch. The key here is that the corian was from scraps from the kitchen company that I worked for. Makes for a nice look but a bit harder to work with than wood. Keep your tools sharp and expect them to get dull quick. Wear face sheild, corian makes lost of swarf.
-- Hacksaw007