Wednesday, August 26, 2015

What did you do in your summer vacation?

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Remember the first days of school after a summer vacation? Those days you always talked about what you had actually been doing with all your...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid part 8, assembly

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After I had glued up the lid, I cut the ends of so they were level with the sides. Then I started rounding over the outside of the lid using...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid part 7, the lid

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After the glue had dried I decided that it didn't look right if I'd led the inside stay as it was with flat boards forming the surfa...
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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid part 6, the lid

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The lid is going to be almost semicircular from the front going to the back. Length wise it will be straight. I started by drawing an ar...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid part 5, completing the bottom.

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Today I managed to make the groove for the interlocking of the bottom. Actually it was a bit easier than I anticipated. Easy workability and...
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Monday, July 6, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid part 4, working on the bottom and finding a couple of design flaws

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The glue had dried and it did indeed still work even though I passed the "best before" date written on the container. The panel ...
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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid part 3 dovetails and glueing up the bottom.

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Today I chopped the dovetails of the four corners of the chest. A benefit of using spruce is that you can make the dovetails really tight si...
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