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My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

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My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Malc2098 » 18 Feb 2020, 19:09

I thought I'd have a go at making bandsaw boxes using some of Coley's offcuts.

That's the best radius I could get with its a 1/4" Tuff Saws blade
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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Andyp » 19 Feb 2020, 12:01

Quite fun to do aren't they?

Next have a ago at bandsaw boxes with a drawer.
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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Malc2098 » 19 Feb 2020, 23:13

Andyp wrote:Quite fun to do aren't they?

Next have a ago at bandsaw boxes with a drawer.


I was quite pleased as they were my first attempts. The kerf such quite a gap that makes the lid a little loose.

The next one I'l try just cutting the sides by going in and out so I won't need to go round a corner. I'll post and seek comment.
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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Phil » 20 Feb 2020, 18:51

Nice one Malc 8-)
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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Malc2098 » 01 Mar 2020, 19:51

So I started getting cocky!

I got given a lovely book on trinket boxes for my birthday and it had two bandsaw boxes in there, but not the 'wacky' (my description, sorry) style that some guys employ. This one had even thickness walls all the way round and the trick was to cut the top, the bottom, the walls and the ends separately and then glue them together.

Well, I got the hang of the bandsaw and cutting relatively neat curves, and cutting the straight bits, too.


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But, when I came to glue it, well.........!

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I had the plug wrapped in clingfilm as was the saw table. I had the plug wedged to take up the kerf slack. I even used the curved off cuts to try and clamp the ends but they came off the curve quicker than Usain Bolt popping down to the wages office at Virgin!

I double glued the surfaces to make sure enough as absorbed into the grain. I let them both go off a bit before offering them together, and I clamped clamps to stop them flying off, and in the end I got there, I think.

But........forgot one fundamental trick with bandsaw boxes which might not work with this style of construction. You're supposed to leave the bottom and top off the sides and ends so that you can slide the top's insert through the box to glue fit onto the top in exactly its right position. Only, I'd glued the sides to the bottom.

So I had to come up with a way to locate the insert onto the top, and that how I left it for today.



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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby DaveL » 01 Mar 2020, 21:05

I think full marks for cutting such neat curved sides. Not sure how to best way to clamp for the glue up, maybe a jig cut to hold them in place?
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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Malc2098 » 01 Mar 2020, 21:24

DaveL wrote:I think full marks for cutting such neat curved sides. Not sure how to best way to clamp for the glue up, maybe a jig cut to hold them in place?


Thanks, Dave.

I used a jig which derives from the circle cutting jig to cut the first over arcs. Then I used a home made resew guide (20mm dowel) to cut the inner curve. And it's a 5/8th" blade, too!
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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Malc2098 » 02 Mar 2020, 14:41

Well, had a go at the body gluing and I think the principle works, but my execution could be better, but this is my first time.

To paraphrase Eric Morecambe, can you see the join?

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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby TrimTheKing » 03 Mar 2020, 15:16

Very neat mate, lovely tight joints there.
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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Andyp » 04 Mar 2020, 11:14

With that amount of grain I cant see how the join could possibly be any better.

Are you planning on burying a hamster? :)
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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Malc2098 » 04 Mar 2020, 11:38

Andyp wrote:
Are you planning on burying a hamster? :)



Don't you start! :)
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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Malc2098 » 09 Mar 2020, 21:59

Mission Control knitted a spectacular Tooth Fairy for our granddaughter to handle financial transactions on her behalf.

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I though I might try something a little more rufty tufty for our grandson. These are two boxes from the same billet, one with a leather lining just visible. I might employ that one so the sound a of a coin hitting the bottom won't wake him! :)

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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Malc2098 » 12 Mar 2020, 13:39

Personalised for the little chap and colour coded to show which way round the lid fits.

(It was a nightmare making a stencil out of A4 plastic stuff, sticking it to the wood, sponging paint, and scalpelling the bleeding paint away!)

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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Andyp » 12 Mar 2020, 16:56

Well worth the trouble Malc.
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Re: My first attempt at bandsaw boxes

Postby Malc2098 » 16 Mar 2020, 23:59

I thought I'd have a go at something a little trickier.

This one is curved like one of the previous ones, but it is also tapered. This means the curves and the ends are cut with the BS table tilted a few degrees; 4.6 to be precise, or imprecise, because the quality of the trunnion on the SIP BS is probably not as good as many others on the market, and 4.6 was the closest I could get to 5.

Anyway, here's the first pair of curved cuts followed by the lid cut off the top. I used the same technique to cut the curve using an adaption to my circle cutting jig. The problem I came across was that I had to cut the lid off with the table at 90 degrees, so that meant changing it and then changing again to cut the ends on a taper.

I used the masking tape and superglue tip to secure the work to the circle cutting jig adaptation.

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Next I cut the sides to the parallel curve using the jig again and then cut off the ends while the table was still tilted.

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Next, I had to cut the bottom from the lower side of there remaining plug and the lid insert from the top side of the plug. Now as the plug was both curved and tilted on the reference edge relative to the BS blade, I rested the plug in the curved offcuts which still had a face square to the blade. I did the lid insert first.

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Then I cut the bottom.

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And these are all the component parts of the box, including the plug which after use could be used to make a smaller box in the same style. But the plug is the former used in order to glue the components together. So using parcel tape to stop gluing the ends and sides to the plug and the curved offcuts, I clamped everything together, eventually, sides and ends first, then the lid insert, using the glued carcass to facilitate exact placement on to the inside of the lid.

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I then used the plug to aid pushing the bottom to ...the bottom.

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And there it is, finished apart from sanding and finishing/painting.

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And with the plug.

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As you can see from the photos, the glue lines are clearly visible on the ends of the box. I used the tulip wood because one of Coley dog ends was a newel post cut off, which is just the right size for this type of box. It is also an interesting wood to look and the grain carries on through the box with hardly any zig-zagging due to the tapering. But it is quite soft and I've dented it a few times just putting it on the bench, dents too deep to sand out. I shall put felt on the bottom, paint one side of the lid and one side of the box with chalk paint to colour code which way the lid goes on, but also to make it more interesting to look at.

I have used Michael's (MY63) tip of cutting a cornflakes packet cardboard insert for the inside and will stick some suede to that tomorrow like I did with the tooth fairy box. That tip works really well, Michael.

The other reason I used the tulip wood was to practice the tapered technique so that I can make one out of a beautiful piece of figured oak in Coley's dog ends! If it comes out well, I'll post a photo. If not, well.......
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