On Friday 09 October 2015 09:50:36 Jim Craig wrote: > On 10/9/2015 8:30 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 08 October 2015 16:04:42 Jim Craig wrote: > >> Gene, > >> > >> How about a pic of one of those blanket chests? > >> > >> Jim > > > > I did, but the server is holding it for the moderator to clear as > > its not quite 20k over the 360k size limit allowed. I smunched it > > down to a 20% quality jpg, because I could see jpg'ing artifacts if > > I went any lower. > > > > I'll try doing some cropping of some of the background in gimp. Or > > is there now a more compact image compression format? Cropping an > > image in gimp is the most frustrating thing I have ever tried, I > > have to ask for help on the gimp-users list every time, so it still > > has white borders. Damit, a crop should remove what you don't want, > > not fill it with white. > > > > Anyway, new version 2 attached, smunched enough that jpg is showing > > some artifacts. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Very nice! I like the Joinery. What are you using for the square pins > in the joint? I like some good woodworking.
Gabon ebony fitted plugs, I have a routine that drills the hole thru the finger for an assembly screw, a 2" long SS for century plus longevity, with a round pocket for the screw head, and a square pocket above that about 3/32" deep with the 1/16 radius corners a 1/8" mill leaves when driven in a square pattern. And I make the ebony plugs, including the rounded tops, in another jig after they've been cut out of a thin sheet of ebony by another routine. The plugs get their sides tapered a few degrees against a disk sander, a coat of Elmers finest on the bottoms and driven into the recess with a soft faced dead blow hammer. The longer bits of ebony in the lid with its breadboard ends is actually more trouble than these are. Breadboard ends aligned with white ash bits & pieces in deep grooves routed in both pieces. The only place its truly glued & screwed solidly is at the center where in this case, since the top has an edge joint there, a screw into each board on both sides of the joint. All the other offcenter is longer because its covering a slot the screw cam move in with the seasonal changes in humidity. The long bit in the corners are only glued into the slots in lid board, and can move freely in the breadboard ends as the seasons come and go. The boards will grown and shrink in width, but generally not length. All the edge joints are full of bisquits, should stay together for a few decades (I hope) But the stock I have laying on the floor now is 1x12, so the only edge joint in the next 3 I make will be at the lengthwise centerline of the lid. I could only locate 1x6's for the raw material the first one you see was made from. Changed vendors, now have 1x12 stock. But that wider stock has me looking at a new saw to replace my 12" Dewalt miter/chopper. Bosche is out with a whole new design that does away with the sideways slop on the usual sliders. I played with the displayed one at Home Depot 2 weeks ago, and that suspension system is easily 10x more rigid against any side forces applied than any other slider on the shelf. And my 12" chopper can't cut a full 12" width. Its also about $200 more than I paid for the Dewalt miter/chopper 6 or 7 years ago. The card has enough surplus it won't be noticed except by the missus when I unload it. :( Those hinges are Rocklers, very high friction, used so that little fingers clamboring for a grip to stand up, will not be smashed by a falling lid. It takes about a 20 lb lift to raise the lid to where you see it in the pix. Nothing else is holding it up. Pricy too. The strip under them at the rear is screwed, glued and pegged into the board below it about every 3 or 4 inches as that strip in addition to holding the torque of the hinges, also projects inward and has a 1/4" wide groove in the bottom to retain the cedar lining. Theres a groove routed in the base panel to hold the end of the cedar "planks", closet liner from Lowes. That groove, with the cedar in it, was actually used to align the box when I set it on the base, forcing everything to be as square as the mahogany faced bottom plywood panel is. If I think about it in time, and I have enough ebony buttons left, (a 2x2x12" piece of that was a hair shy of $70 dropped on my front deck) I may use them in the front strip to hide the well countersunk screws. The front and end retainer strips are not glued, a paen to making some of the cedar removable for a light sanding to remove the resin it exudes which seals it up and the cedar odor goes away. A light sanding to remove that resin restores the cedar odor for a few years. Its just part of cedar maintenance. If your house has cedar lined closets, that needs to be done to them on about the same schedule. IOW If you can't smell it, sand it. About 150 grit, sand gently, just hard enough to make some resin dust. But if I put the ebony plugs in the front and end strips, sanding will have to be done insitu. Just vacuum up the white dust it makes. Finish in the pix is about 10 coats of Sam's Stuff, and will be augmented with a couple more coats of Minwax's gloss polyurethane before it goes to one of my boys. All wiped on of course. "Sam" being Sam Maloof, he of the $125,000 walnut rocking chairs that look flimsy but I've never heard of one of them breaking. Sam was a congressionally designated National Treasure, but passed at 95 yo about 3 years ago. > My next big woodworking project is new office furniture. It will > probably take me and my dad about a year to finish the project I want > to do. Executive desk, full 12' wall of bookcases. printer cabinet.... > and whatever else I can dream up. Right now I am working off a white > plastic folding table, LOL. > I have one of those 8 footers on the front deck, collection bird droppings. > Keep up the good work. As long as I can, Jim. When I can't, just take out out and shoot me. ;0 Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
