The Woodshop Shed

Valentine's Ammo Box

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Sometimes your significant other wants more the chocolate. The heart ammo box was built from bloodwood with cutouts for 60 spaced bullets along the inside.I used graph paper and Tinkercad to make the pattern and plan the spacing of the bullets and refine the shape. Once that was complete, I built the blank for the base out of glued-up staves to get a little more depth and decrease the wood's movement over time. The top was built from two matched sections of the board to show the grain, with Festool dominoes to reinforce the joint.
Two more layers are in the middle, the inner one being a 1” riser which separates the lid from the base. An outer one sits on the outside and serves as molding to orient the top and bottom together.
The base is fitted with three large wood buttons for feet to keep the base from being scratched.
Finish is with gloss sprayed polyurethane to preserve the color and grain of the wood.

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Whiskey Tea Box

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This is a desktop cabinet to hold and present a Whiskey set including but not limited to a set of 4 glasses, chilling cubes, and other accessories.This is a prototype made of mostly 3/4 plywood material with a 1/2 plywood back and front faces for strength and mounting of hardware.See the build blog here:
https://www.lumberjocks.com/PurpLev/blog/series/23293

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Yet Another Cheap Workbench

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I needed a good, solid workbench so I decided to build one. I read The Workbench Design Book and Scott Landis' The Workbench Book, looked at a bunch of websites and watched a ton of YouTube videos. I wanted something solid, CHEAP, and utilitarian. I decided to go with a split-top (because I have a bad back and didn't want to waggle around a whole top), Roubo-inspired (I didn't want to do the fancy dovetails) bench.A lot has been said about the choice of wood for a bench, with many people preferring something like maple. Hardwood seemed too expensive so I went with Douglas fir (since I'm in Southern California and couldn't find Southern Yellow Pine in any quantity); it's solid and way cheaper than the alternatives. Unfortunately, the 4×4s and 4×6s for the legs and stretchers came from Lowes so the wood started out twisted and got worse while it sat in my shop. There were lots of checks in the wood (so lots of bow-tie splines) and some sap that I addressed with a heat gun. Lowes is a mistake I'll not make, again (but I'm still happy with the choice of Doug fir).The next decision was the construction of the top. I looked at a lot of options, including gluing up 2×4s and using a router sled to level it. It occurred to me that Glu-Lam beams might give me a ready-made top at an economical price. This ended up being a pretty good choice (though, I had to add a coupe bow-tie splines to stop a check). They're not pretty but they do the job.I used standard furniture construction techniques to assemble the bench. The leg and stretcher tenons were cut with a dado set on the table saw and the corresponding mortises required a Forstner bit and chisel. I mortised out the spots for the vises with a circular saw and finished them up with a chisel as well. A piece of oak scrap went into the sliding dead man. Finish the whole thing off with a chunk of rain gutter for a tool tray (yeah, I know, but it works) and a couple Gramercy holdfasts, and I've got a workbench that I'm really happy with.

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