The Woodshop Shed

2 NGR boxes

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The box in pics 1,2,3 started as a nicely figured piece of New Guinea Rosewood,
to which about 2 years ago I applied oil poly with 240 grit paper.
Filling the substantial pores “seemed like a good idea at the time”,
but all its chatoyance went.A few months ago, I sanded it back til the chatoyance was partial,
and since the piece was still about 25mm thick,
cut it to 10mm with the idea of having another nice
piece. Guess again. Both cut faces are boring,
after sanding and applying oil poly with a rag this time.Anyway, the yellow-brown color “told me” it wanted
a border of more orangey, then some dark red-brown.
And so it has ended up.
The orangey is “red ironbark”, again donated from Rob (thanks yet again);
not at all the same as “red gum” from my old fence posts.
and the dark is nasty ole marshmallow wood. Oh, i mean
surian cedar, stained a little darker.
Well, the first Surian box-sides I cut were dark enough,
but not quite long enough, so it was either cut the lid-panel down,
or cut more box-sides. Chose the latter.I learned to use the el-cheapo quadrant hinges for this.
KJ bought 3 packets of 10 .. someone has to use them.
They look a bit better once you use sand to take some
of the gloss off.
Learning took 3 or 4 prototypes using old pine drawer-sides.
It's drilling the space for the arm to drop into
that was giving me a hard time.
Most of the instructions I could find on the web
were mainly about rebates for the hinge leaves, and
that was never a problem.
I still think that while that drilling was possible in
soft wood, it would be a lot trickier in hard stuff,
because I had to stick small chisels in for some
more adjustments of the hole.
I have 36 more lines about those hinges if anyone is interested.
Pics 4,5 are a box that started out as a nice offcut from
KJ's scraps box. It was only 3-4mm thick, so I glued it to a
piece of Qld Maple which was formerly a wardrobe-door panel,
about 6mm thick.
Then just added lid-frame and sides made from that same old
bed-frame you might have noticed in quite a number of
my recent postings.= = = =

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Open Segmented Bowl #3

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This is my third open segmented turning. Made with paduak, maple, cherry, and walnut. 13.5” diameter and about 7” tall. This was a fun and challenging project. 48 segments per ring.

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Octag Star box

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Inspired by the pattern in pic 4.Originally had in mind to go dark for the middle star, and lighter each layer out,
But (long story follows)
the palest wood was in short supply
due to being a piece of rubbish—a tree cut down at the
golf club, that I thought would come up nice,
but nooo: after drying on the floor for 2 years I cut it
and found the sapwood was a moldy medium brown, and heart
was pale pink with streaks of brown and yellow.
Got out just enough of that pale pink for 8 side pieces and
8 center rhombs. You can see one streak on the underside of the lid.The next-darker woods are Chilean myrtle (offcut $8 from a cabinetmaker), swamp mahogany (freebie many years ago), and redgum from an old fencepost.Is about 16cm across.
And yippee, I remembered for a change to do a WIP pic.

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