Expert Wood working

Hi Everyone,

Well, the wood shop is bloody cold today but I had a break in my day and so I decided to go down and work on the music a little more. Here are todays photos:

Here is the turning blank. Ive decided to shorten the box portion to 4 inches and Ive cut a groove in the bottom to mark this off:

This is the first chance Ive had to use the new jaws for the Nova chuck. The tenons on the ends of the blocks will fit into the jaws. This will hold the blocks securely while Im turning:


I took the turning block over to the bandsaw and cut the block into two pieces, the box portion and the lid:

Next, Im going to turn a tenon onto the box. Ive marked off a 1/4 tenon and Im going to use the bedan tool to cut it:

Hmm, this looks too small for a tenon. Not enough wood for the lid to sit on. Im going to enlarge it to 1/2" inch instead:

Here it is a few minutes later:


 Ive swiveled the tool rest over and Im beginning to hollow out the box portion. Id like to hollow it out to about 2 or 2 1/2". I was turning and as I was turning, my hands just began to freeze over and I couldnt hollow much more than about 1 1/4"--I just cant hold onto the handle of the turning chisel. So Im going to stop and go in and let my hands defrost. Ill continue on later next week when it warms up some.
Stay tuned,

VW

This piece is a Recipe Box with Birds Eye Maple Body, Black Walnut doors and drawers with a Quarter Sawn Oak stand.

The Oak for the stand is locally grown and milled featuring through mortise and tenon construction with Walnut wedges. The cabinet sides are held together with dowels while the drawers are through dovetails. The hardware is cast Bronze, giving the piece an Asian inspired feel.

Ive been practicing more in Sketchup and have learned how to add dimensions to all the parts.  I made up a .PDF with some cutting dimensions and added it under the cooler box picture in the downloads page.  Check them out and let me know what you think!

http://blogspot.com/p/downloads.html

I want to try and figure out how to make a cut list showing the boards with the pieces cut out of them but that is going to be my next big learning project.