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Oriental Display Stand

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Oriental Display Stand

Postby Woodbloke » 26 Mar 2018, 08:57

Whilst I was waiting for the shelves for the Cabinet of Curiosities, I knocked together this display stand, based on one that we'd seen in Kyoto on our recent travels.

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I drew it out full size and made it in the way that you used to build (and still do) model balsa aircraft, ie by fitting bits to size over the plan. The hoops are laminated in two sections and made from 5 strips of American Cherry veneer, glued with Cascamite. When set, each half was fed through the Jet 16-32 drum sander and finished at 15mm wide.
Each semicircle was then jointed with a pair of joints using a slotting cutter on the router table and a corresponding wafer of cherry was glued in; and each completed circle was cramped in a Bessey band clamp.
The supports between each of the hoops were doweled in place using small sections of bamboo BBQ skewers which although small, are incredibly strong.

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The shelves were then fitted one at a time and a 6.4mm router cutter was used to joint them. This was probably one of the fiddliest, most awkward bloody projects that I've done for a long, long time; it proved so tricky to do that even detail sanding at the end was tiresome and to finish all I did was to slosh over a coat of Liberon Finishing Oil and then some wax polish over the top. Anyone asks you to do one and tells you that they're easy to make is spouting porkies :D - Rob
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Re: Oriental Display Stand

Postby Malc2098 » 26 Mar 2018, 09:41

'Knocked together' he says!!

Nice!
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Re: Oriental Display Stand

Postby Rod » 26 Mar 2018, 10:23

Very nice work

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Re: Oriental Display Stand

Postby Phil » 26 Mar 2018, 11:23

Yes, very nice work.

I like the idea now that it is complete and in use.
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Re: Oriental Display Stand

Postby Jimmy Mack » 26 Mar 2018, 17:34

lovely Rob, I got very confused by scale at first, as I thought it was full sized, though charming as a little piece too.

Can the circle be rotated 180 degree's for a different configuration?

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Re: Oriental Display Stand

Postby Andyp » 27 Mar 2018, 07:17

I knew you would find a way of putting it together. Looks cool.
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Re: Oriental Display Stand

Postby TrimTheKing » 14 May 2018, 11:14

Very nice Rob.
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