Cutting Boards from My Shop

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Latest Curve in the Learning Road

   




















 On Wednesday I descended in to the basement workshop with a plan.  I had been going to make a Box Joint Jig like the one from the Router Workshop for sometime now.  Months actually, in truth I bought the 1/2 Baltic Birch at last year's Kitchener Wood show, like about 12 months.
   
   Anyway, better late than never. 
   
   I will spare this blog's readers the full story of broken routers and blue air. ( you can get the whole story at blogthetoolstore.blogspot.com, if you want).


  You can see the corners of the poplar box that I made using the box joint jig. The jig is set up for 1/4 cuts, I am going to experiment with 3/8 and see if I can control the cut along the 1/4 guide. If it doesn't work, I'll make a 3/8 jig too.


  I made about four sets of joints before I got the hang of setting the jig up and now I think it will be fast and easy.  In the course of the day's adventures I lost my 1/4 brass spacer bar.  Such a pain, I use those spacer bars all the time.


 The colour of the box is sort of interesting, it is straight orange shellac.  It is a very old fashioned looking colour.

More Kieran movies.

There are two reasons for the Kieran movies on the site.
1. he is so cool
2. I am trying to expand what I do on the Blog and making, loading and managing movies is going to be part of it.  So, like my family that get workshop prototypes, you get the blog prototypes.

Kieran

What can I say, "he is a sweetie!"

Fibonacci Gauge

Check out
woodworkingformeremortals.com,
I am a foot note in his video presentation.
cool eh?
cheers,

The Last Glue, good glue

Great Glue:

Borrowed from blogthetoolstore.blogspot.com

finished knitting needle box

I like the aniline stains though when dissolved in alcohol  instead of water the colour seemed to darken.