| Project by Rob | posted 1963 days ago | 1203 views | 1 time favorited | 7 comments |  |
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Hi all,
This is a box, about 12” x 8” x 5”. Its made in Silky Oak (SO) also called Lacewood and Jarrah with a Fijian Kauri base and Macassar Ebony handle.
The 25mm wide Jarrah strips were cut from 19mm deep stock with a Festool TS75 and jointed directly to the Silky Oak using 5mm dominoes. The SO edges were prepared using a Lie Nielson #4 smoother fitted with a high angle frog.
All mitres are done with a Festool Kapex SCMS.
The finish is Scandinavian oil, friction sealed using aFestool ETS150 fitted with an extra soft pad and sanding from 400 to 4000g. Preparation for the sealing was done using a Rotex 150 ROS with grits of 100-400.
Final finish was done using UBeaut Traditional wax.
(The lid still needs to be attached.)
The Jarrah strip across the lid was achieved by gluing the strip to one of the SO panels, the dominoing the two panels together. The panels and border strips were then dominoed together and the mitres glued up. No glue was used to hold the dominoes in.
The handle was made but cutting a 5×28mm Domino mortise and inserting a 5mm slice of ebony. The edges were rounded using an DTS400 and 320g.
Regards,
Rob
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CharlieM1958
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#1 posted 1963 days ago
Nice design and choice of woods, and the finish is outstanding!
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rikkor
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#2 posted 1963 days ago
I have to ditto Charlie. Outstanding!
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#3 posted 1963 days ago
Wow – that is a fabulous looking box. Thanks for showing it to us.
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Grumpy
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#4 posted 1963 days ago
Ggood combination of Aussie wood there mate. Nice job. I have a good quantity of silky oak from a friend who lobbed a tree in my home town, a bit of nostalgia but I will make a few things with it. Jarrah is a bit harder to come by for me. Do you live in the west?.
Whoops I forgot you are a southerner, same problem as me getting the jarrah.
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Scott Bryan
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#5 posted 1963 days ago
That is really a gorgeous box. Thanks for the post. If you have a chance how about posting an inside picture as well.
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Harry72
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#6 posted 1961 days ago
Hmmm seen that somewhere before!
Jarrah, lots around here Grumpy all recycled stuff though.
GaryK
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#7 posted 1961 days ago
I missed this while I was out of town. Great job! Very nice looking!
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