Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
Posting this crap work for others to share. :-)Saw this project post last year, thought it was cute idea; then made the classic mistake to share with SWMBO. Project was added to the commandments or my work project list.After finishing up SWMBO's Christmas present (Stocking Holder), was rewarded Christmas day with a formal review of my project list and status of priority projects. This toilet paper holder floated to surface. :-)Super simple project with half lap joints. One unit is made from Anigre and other from American Black Cherry. Depth is 4.5” as max cut depth on 8” dado stack was 2.25”. The openings are 5” square.The WWW has several how-to posts on this project and different opening sizes are used. Having OCD and being an engineer; made a couple trips to store and actually measured toilet paper rolls. What I learned was: Median diameter is ~4.65, while monster expensive plush rolls are ~5.0 in diameter. Every brand I checked except one was less than 4.5 in wide. Hence, using 5×5x4.5 boxes seemed about right to me.The Anigre was rift sawn and some faint ribbon figure, in an otherwise ugly yellow/cream colored wood. Person that gave the wood to me, called it white sapele; as I was buying a bunch of sapele. Took some work to figure out it, but learned that in Africa Anigre is just about as useful for stained projects as popular is here in USA.Wife initially wanted to have Anigre wood dyed to match a Claude Monet print in one bathroom, instead of white wood. After making a bunch of color samples from dyes, shellacs, poly, and danish oil:
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She chose dark brown as seen in 1st picture above. :-0)
Decided to dye the X's with red Transtint for contrast. Both pieces have 3 coats of Arm-R-Seal semi-gloss as top coat.The second unit I made from cherry as same finish schedule used on Christmas stocking holder, and is detailed in that project post.Making the second one was actually harder than 1st. The lap joints are ugly and have gaps. Had issues with Rocker flip stop; really stupid design of the stop introduces play every time you flip it up. Will be posting a 0 star review on that piece of junk soon.
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Flush it if you don't :-)Thanks for reading this punny post.