Clews Box Lid

Here is a close up of the lid. That is a piece of red palm that has been inlayed into the lid. I had never turned red palm before. Jimmy has selected it because it was pretty hard from the beginning. Not much extra work was needed to get it ready for the inlay work other than turning, sanding, finishing, and parting it off. The lid was then recessed to receive the resulting disk. Had I been home doing this I would have used a bit of compressed air to clean the pores a bit, but for a class it was not too bad. Might put another coat of finish on the whole box. I'm thinking that it would really help the lid particularly.
Questions?

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Rev. Doug Miller

Rev. Doug Miller

Registered: November 2004
Location: Hardinsburg, KY
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Date: Sun February 22, 2009
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Bill Bolen

That red palm gives it a leather look. I really like it rev. Good class I see...Bill..

#1 Sun February 22, 2009 7:43am

Bill Bolen

Rev, I am looking at the tennon or lip for the lid to fit onto in the background shot. Did you cut a groove in that? Does it help control the fit of the lid to the body?. Now you have a collaboration piece with yurself and Jimmy Clews...Bill..

#2 Sun February 22, 2009 5:38pm

Rev. Doug Miller

Rev. Doug Miller

Bill, there is no groove in the tenon. The lid is parted straight in from the face for the tenon to fit into. The tenon on the body actually has a belly. Picture the blank for the bottom in your chuck. Once you have squared the face, Jimmy teaches to mark your size with a pair of dividers that are set to the opening of your lid. Use your parting tool to develop a tenon that is tapered, smallest at the top and largest toward the bottom. Once it is fitted so that the lid will go onto the tenon about half way, he uses a parting tool that is ground off at an angle so that he can under cut the bottom half of the tenon. Now what you end up with is a tenon that has a ridge in the middle. It is that ridge that compresses inside the lid and causes that pop when you remove the lid. Way cool process. 8-)

#3 Mon February 23, 2009 4:58am

Don Andrews

Nice form, I like the look of the red palm inlay.

#4 Tue February 24, 2009 3:03am