Building boxes?

[timwcic]

I few wild found stones that are worthy of a home. I also got the wood, that I think is a type of cedar but has no aromatic characteristics, from the flea market. Split on a bandsaw and ripped into all the pieces. A wipe of golden stain to finish

 

[David]

Excellent work Tim!

 

[timwcic]

Excellent work Tim!

Thanks David. A chicken in every pot and every Thuri in a box

 

[Rugger007]

Very nice work!

 

[iamryan25]

These look great!

 

[timwcic]

Very nice work!

These look great!

Thank you gentlemen, I love the smell of sawdust in the morning

 

[timwcic]

A stone that is too worthy to be homeless. A early coticule now has a place to rest for the next 100 years

 

[David]

Awesome!

 

[Ice-Man]

That looks beautiful Tim!!!

That's one thing I need for my stones, might make some this summer when the weather warms up some and its warm outside....

I really need to get my butt into action, and get a workshop sorted in the spare bedroom or build an outside workshop but we only have a small yard....

 

[timwcic]

Awesome!

That looks beautiful Tim!!!

That's one thing I need for my stones, might make some this summer when the weather warms up some and its warm outside....

I really need to get my butt into action, and get a workshop sorted in the spare bedroom or build an outside workshop but we only have a small yard....

Thanks to both of you. When you get you workshop up and going Ian, if your boxes are anything like your restro’s, we are in for a treat

 

[Ice-Man]

Thanks to both of you. When you get you workshop up and going Ian, if your boxes are anything like your restro’s, we are in for a treat

Thank you Tim!!! For your kind comments that means a lot to me.

 

[Singing in the brain]

Traced the profile of this coticule with a pencil straight on to the wood (cedar) and added measurements for dadoes(I'm Swedish so forgive me but I don't have 100% on English lingo) and made a couple of the aaaa... Mmmm whatsitcalled..... Öööööömmm... The stuff that acts as a wall around of the base. Anyways, I had alot of material so I had plenty for testing and to build with. Wrote notes a bout the degrees of each corner on tape (to me, its just more rational then a loos piece of paper) and cut it by hand. One thing I learned at school considering mitered(?) corners is that you can use plastic tape to aid you in your gluing. Glue with tape! One end is put next to each other along something straight, and then you fold it all together, creating sort of the desired result, and tape for mother and country at the last open joint, in this instance, the shape of a asymmetrical rim. If making a box with 90 degree corners, you can adjust the symmetry by using simply one or two clamps, and in my case the base did this for me. At least to a certain degree, as shown on the result on the bottom. It was near 100% while dryglueing but adrenalin and haste often works against you as you can see. How ever, the case makes a nice "ffffmp" sound when the stone enters the box so, almost there!

 

[David]

Great work. That is way cool.

 

[timwcic]

Traced the profile of this coticule with a pencil straight on to the wood (cedar) and added measurements for dadoes(I'm Swedish so forgive me but I don't have 100% on English lingo) and made a couple of the aaaa... Mmmm whatsitcalled..... Öööööömmm... The stuff that acts as a wall around of the base. Anyways, I had alot of material so I had plenty for testing and to build with. Wrote notes a bout the degrees of each corner on tape (to me, its just more rational then a loos piece of paper) and cut it by hand. One thing I learned at school considering mitered(?) corners is that you can use plastic tape to aid you in your gluing. Glue with tape! One end is put next to each other along something straight, and then you fold it all together, creating sort of the desired result, and tape for mother and country at the last open joint, in this instance, the shape of a asymmetrical rim. If making a box with 90 degree corners, you can adjust the symmetry by using simply one or two clamps, and in my case the base did this for me. At least to a certain degree, as shown on the result on the bottom. It was near 100% while dryglueing but adrenalin and haste often works against you as you can see. How ever, the case makes a nice "ffffmp" sound when the stone enters the box so, almost there!

Great work on a nice shaped house for the bout. The shape reminds be of the wedding fireplace in the movie Beetlejuice

 

[timwcic]

Some homes for a few Washita stones. The walnut was recycled off a piece of furniture I scored dumpster diving. Split and cut up for the layup. I don’t normally use finish but the gallon of lacquer was a flea market score so decided to give it a go. I was surprised to discover that one of the pieces turned out to be quilted walnut while splitting so those two became tops. These worthy stones now have a nice place to live

 

[timwcic]

Been working on and off for the last month, time to finish. A piece of hurricane Charley wood turned into a home for a 12 inch Norton combo Soft/Trans

 

[global_dev]

tim, those boxes look great! i am pretty jealous of your reclamation find.

 

[timwcic]

tim, those boxes look great! i am pretty jealous of your reclamation find.

thank you very much. I was surprised how beautiful wood from the trash appeared on my finished work. I’ve routed a few boxes in the beginning and they came out perfectly fine. I enjoy the Zen (Also hiding from SWMBO) Of cutting up the reclaimed wood to make these boxes for my Stones.

 

[Srdjan]

I've been bit by this bug recently. Don't have a workshop to do wood boxes, but chipboard and some interesting papers, along with nice lining and padding materials, seems to be doing the trick for now.

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[Singing in the brain]

Some homes for a few Washita stones. The walnut was recycled off a piece of furniture I scored dumpster diving. Split and cut up for the layup. I don’t normally use finish but the gallon of lacquer was a flea market score so decided to give it a go. I was surprised to discover that one of the pieces turned out to be quilted walnut while splitting so those two became tops. These worthy stones now have a nice place to live

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Hey Tim!
What's going on in the third picture? Really curious on what those cyber looking clamp thingies are called and what the do. Doesn't look like standard equipment at all.
Please tell!