Bill Brush
12-14-2008, 1:25 AM
I have always loved to build thing, and making something from scratch is even better. I did some woodworking in High School about 20 years ago and loved it. In fact my parents are still using the tv stand/table I made for them in shop class. More recently I've been focused on carpentry, dry wall, plumbing, electrical and other assorted Dad duties. Back in October I was cleaning the garage and decided that my very nice whetstones deserved a better storage container than an oil saturated Nike shoe box. So I started down the woodworking project path I had not traveled in years. I found it very satisfying and was fairly pleased with the results, so I've been poking around the internet and found this Sawmill Creek and decided to stay a while and live vicariously through all the craftsmen that have time to do big projects.
Anyway my whetstone box was designed to the exact measurements of my whetstones, and included the honing oil bottle. Since I didn't want it to be too massive I went with 1/2" oak for the shell and 1/4" ply for the partitions. I didn't like the look of the edge grain of the partitions so I trimmed them with some scrap yellowheart I've had kicking around my scraps bin for about 8-9 years. Then I realized I needed to reinforce the but joints of the tray, so I splined them with some readheart that's been keeping the yellowheart company. The metalwork was all done from scratch using some sheet brass I had leftover from another project. Considering my lack of tools I was happy to complete it with only one minor defect which was one corner joinery being assymetrical to the other corners. For a tool storage box I'll live with it. It's probably too nice for its intended purpose, but it's the first project I've done with myself as the intended recipient in over a decade so I let my penchant for overbuilding have free rein.
I look forward to learning a lot from you gentlemen.
Bill
Anyway my whetstone box was designed to the exact measurements of my whetstones, and included the honing oil bottle. Since I didn't want it to be too massive I went with 1/2" oak for the shell and 1/4" ply for the partitions. I didn't like the look of the edge grain of the partitions so I trimmed them with some scrap yellowheart I've had kicking around my scraps bin for about 8-9 years. Then I realized I needed to reinforce the but joints of the tray, so I splined them with some readheart that's been keeping the yellowheart company. The metalwork was all done from scratch using some sheet brass I had leftover from another project. Considering my lack of tools I was happy to complete it with only one minor defect which was one corner joinery being assymetrical to the other corners. For a tool storage box I'll live with it. It's probably too nice for its intended purpose, but it's the first project I've done with myself as the intended recipient in over a decade so I let my penchant for overbuilding have free rein.
I look forward to learning a lot from you gentlemen.
Bill