Bill Esposito
07-27-2003, 2:02 PM
Hi all,
This is my first attempt at turning a box and this months Wood Magazine arrived just in time for the weekend.
I didnt have any wood so I glued up alternating pieces of cherry and white birch to make the required 4x4x5" blank
SInce this is only the fourth thing I've made and it was the first time I used some of my new chisels, I learned a few things. First - cut the corners off the blank. Second - scrapers dont shear the end grain very well. and Third - Scrape with the rest slightly above the center line and the scraper down a few degrees.
Thus was the first time I used my HF chisels and new packard bowl scraper and Sorby multitool. The Sorby tool was great for hogging it out and the bowl scraper worked well for refining the inside shape.
Here's the first one I made, I hope to make a few more and fix the mistakes.
This is my first attempt at turning a box and this months Wood Magazine arrived just in time for the weekend.
I didnt have any wood so I glued up alternating pieces of cherry and white birch to make the required 4x4x5" blank
SInce this is only the fourth thing I've made and it was the first time I used some of my new chisels, I learned a few things. First - cut the corners off the blank. Second - scrapers dont shear the end grain very well. and Third - Scrape with the rest slightly above the center line and the scraper down a few degrees.
Thus was the first time I used my HF chisels and new packard bowl scraper and Sorby multitool. The Sorby tool was great for hogging it out and the bowl scraper worked well for refining the inside shape.
Here's the first one I made, I hope to make a few more and fix the mistakes.