Spindle shaped round inlay box [includes a poll, come vote]

[shop]

this would be more likely to work if you use thinner material, so less of a gap created by pulling the two ends apart.

[evansd2]

Yeah actually you could do this pretty easily with a ton of veneer layers. Not it! That’s way too much glue up.

[drelleum]

@evansd2

Not it! That’s way too much glue up.

Hahaha I was wondering about that too

[rbtdanforth]

@evansd2

you could. The tricky part would be not snapping the hardwood

If you had the wood soaking in alcohol it would bend and then hold the shape after drying. A lot easier with Basswood than Wenge but everything else would be between those two.

[shop]

I was thinking for a second veneer with 3M adhesive, but that would leave no room for error.

[evansd2]

Yeah I prefer wood glue, open time is key.

[brewergnome]

Beautiful! And a similar solution to one I’ve used to some success for the ah, Three Body Problem if you will.

Must take a lot of work to get it so perfectly round! Do you do all the sanding by hand?

[evansd2]

@brewergnome

Do you do all the sanding by hand?

Go back to the main post, there’s a link to edge nerdery at the end that you click on for more info. I detailed it for you.

[brewergnome]

DERP. Totally missed that.

Wow, I’m impressed you get it so even all by hand. Well done!

[evansd2]

It’s really not hard when you build the shape into the design like that. You just grind the edges away, no problem.

[ptodd]

Sooooooo beautiful! We are all in love with Chronos!

[tjleasa]

I know it wouldn’t be an easy technique for your design but the project reminded me of my solution to “I want to make a handle but I don’t have a lathe (but I do have a drill press and laser) problem”.

[drelleum]

These are the solutions that change the world

[ellingtonmd]

I always love the contrasting pop that you get when you combine Purpleheart and Yellowheart!!

[rbtdanforth]

@ellingtonmd

contrasting pop that you get when you combine Purpleheart and Yellowheart!!

Even more impressive in uv light!

[evansd2]

Self #necrogame.

I liked this one.

[Purplie]

Such attention to detail! I’m very impressed.

Did you manually align the rings, or did you use some kind of alignment trick?

[LauraZM]

Wow. What beautiful work! I have yet to make anything with hardwoods, but this has persuaded me to try something new. I’m glad you bumped this topic.

[evansd2]

Thanks! I use brass pins to align stuff like this. You can see them in some of my other projects like this one:

Inlaid round spalted elm box

Tread lightly, we are OR-2 and OR-4, and we don’t allow just anyone to visit. [IMG_2672] I wanted to do something a bit more literal instead of geometric abstractions so I dusted off an old design that I pulled from the web quite a while ago. I’d give attribution but this is one of those images that has been shared so many times that I just can’t be sure of its provenance. I modified it slightly to improve its symmetry and laserability, and here we are. Notes: I don’t have a lot to add t…

[evansd2]

Oh @purplie you’ll probably like this one too:

Heavily inlaid round box

Greetings, my name is Davos. [IMG_2563] I decided to really go for it with inlaid edges. I was shooting for something that would just take the whole inlaid edge concept to its logical conclusion, and this is where I landed. Notes: I had to develop several techniques to deal with this. I actually failed to make this twice before I got a success, I had to refine my methods to get it right. I’ll talk about it in the main body. All hardwoods 1/8" thick Sanded to 600 grit Wipe on Polyuret…