Salt Box

Steve, another awesome project cones out of your shop. Must have been a lot of time spent programing the shapes. Very nice.

-- If you believe you can or can not do a thing, you are correct.

Very nice Steve – great design as usual. Nice looking chuck of Cherry as well.

Jeff

-- Jeff - I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Great Job Steve!!
What did you finish it with?
I only ask, because you might want to “season” it with a liberal dose of pre-salting… and let that salt absorb what it will…
Toss that salt, wipe it out really well, and you should be good to go…

-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

Nice work. I like the simple hinge and closing mechanism.
Glad to see your CNC being put to use.
Did you have any trouble with the cherry burning?
I would be interested in a blog on the subject. Although I don’t have a CNC I’m still curious about your process.

-- Scott Smith, Southern Illinois

Thanks guys.

Mike, good idea. I have a couple of coats of tung oil drying on it right now. I will let it soak with salt later.

SAS, I did have a little burning in spots once I slowed down the feed rate to compensate for chip-out. Gotta find that happy sweet spot. Cherry is a bugger for burning, but I just love it. Maybe I should find a spiral bit and see if that helps.

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Cool looking design. Nice job. To address the burning, did you do a final skim pass? Also, did you hand build the g-code for the top or use V-Carve?

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Sweet looking box Steve, great bit of work on the top, well done :)

-- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got

Beautiful box! Blogs are ALWAYS appreciated.

-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive

Yes A tutorial would be nice .
Great looking design and yes a spiral bit would likely work better as the chips will be moved upwards with a up cut bit .
Great bit of carving on the lid design and the side design is very original .
Great project all the way and I like it a lot !

Kiefer

-- Kiefer 松

Nice one Steve !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ciao from Puglia

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Thanks guys,

Rance, the only burning that I had was on the inside so I cut the pocket too small and used a clean-up pass. Using V-Carve I ended going with a .1 inch removal with a continuous spiral climb cut dropping .3 inches each spiral at 60 inches per min. (Way too much control and decisions to make – and I don’t know what I am doing.) Do you ever do this stuff anymore?

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

I am impressed with you saltbox design; the cover is so intricate and the side sloping on the box is very inventive. As I read the comments about your build, the techiques you all are describing sounds like a cnc computer program. I also like the magnet to hold the lid in place.

-- Flaws are only in the eye of the artisan!

Hi Steve. putting back on order your CNC seems was a great idea. Fortunately you remembered how it was plugged to the wall. lol

The design is very cool. Besides, a pot such as this in the kitchen is indeed helpful. Neat idea.

-- Back home. Fernando

You know Steve, for a guy who’s not a rocket surgeon, you sure do nice work.

Very impressive.

Lee

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Steve a very nice work where you didn’t have to do anything except put on the finish.

Very cool design.

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