Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
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.= = = =