I've finished my intermediate course with the completion of the oilstone box.
I'm pretty pleased with the result. Check it out. Comments are very welcome.
The box was a great chance to play with the Veritas low angle jack plan both for end-grain shooting and also using the higher angle iron for smoothing the iroko's interlocking grain.
My new Father's Day present (Lie Nielsen low angle skew block plane) got a bit of a workout too on the coffin top ends. It's a beautiful plane which I'm sure I'll get tonnes of use from in the years to come.
The African iroko finishes beautifully and with a danish oil and beeswax finish is sooo smooth.
In addition I've been prepping ash for my first attempt at a dovetail box. I've made a box lid from some beautifully figured sapele. I've used a door frame type construction incorporating haunched stopped mortise and tenons hand cut with a hand-me-down motise chisel from my Dad. I also used my Grandfather's old wooden plough plane to prepare a groove in the frame to accommodate the central panel. This was prepared with a rebate cut with my L-N medium shoulder plane (before I had been given the skew block plane). Using a baton clamped to the workpiece was actually really simple and very effective.Keep a lookout for some pics before the glue up stage.
I'm pretty pleased with the result. Check it out. Comments are very welcome.
The box was a great chance to play with the Veritas low angle jack plan both for end-grain shooting and also using the higher angle iron for smoothing the iroko's interlocking grain.
My new Father's Day present (Lie Nielsen low angle skew block plane) got a bit of a workout too on the coffin top ends. It's a beautiful plane which I'm sure I'll get tonnes of use from in the years to come.
The African iroko finishes beautifully and with a danish oil and beeswax finish is sooo smooth.
In addition I've been prepping ash for my first attempt at a dovetail box. I've made a box lid from some beautifully figured sapele. I've used a door frame type construction incorporating haunched stopped mortise and tenons hand cut with a hand-me-down motise chisel from my Dad. I also used my Grandfather's old wooden plough plane to prepare a groove in the frame to accommodate the central panel. This was prepared with a rebate cut with my L-N medium shoulder plane (before I had been given the skew block plane). Using a baton clamped to the workpiece was actually really simple and very effective.Keep a lookout for some pics before the glue up stage.
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