A jewelry box for a supplier.

[Bill Wyko]

I did a little bartering with my wire supplier. My end was building him this jewelry box for him to give to his wife for their 35th anny. He said she cried when he gave it to her. I'm hoping tears of joy. [big grin]

 

[sw1211]

Must be some nice wire you were bartering for, beautiful work as always.

 

[mattfc]

Lovely.. I suggest you find out when Shane's aniversary is.... might get you a VAC-SYS plus some other Festool goodies  [big grin]

 

[johnsonri]

Very nice  box!! And, to know that your work, in part, brought those tears of joy has to be flattering!! Your wire guy owes you more than wire [attachimg=#].

 

[ForumMFG]

Bill,

It's people like you that make people like me affraid [scared] to post any of my work on here!  ;D ;D

 

[Neill]

Bill,

Do you have any plans to stop making prototypes and get some finished boxes done that look good?

[poke]

Neill

P. S. You are unreal.

 

[Bill Wyko]

LMAO. Here's the trick.....If you remove juuussst the right amount of sawdust......... [blink]
Believe me, I've removed too much many, many times.  [big grin]

Thanks guys. If I can ever be of any help on your projects please don't hesitate to ask.

 

[Aegwyn11]

Bill,

Amazing, as usual. Can you describe at all the technique you used to do the heart inlay?

Also, it looks like you used more Kauri on this project?

 

[Bill Wyko]

Thanks very much. No Kauri on this one though. To do the heart I drew a design and cut it out of poster board. Then I applied blue masking tape to the surface of the Burl walnut and the Quilted Maple. Using a very sharp pencil I traced the design on to both pieces and cut them out using a razor blade. Next I fine tuned the fit into each other. Next I applied a layer of tape on what will end up being to outside surface to hold the 2 together. This is all before the veneer was applied to the substraight. Then on the inside I used a small amount of dark veneer glue to work in between the dark and light woods. Once it was worked in I wiped off any excess. Next I applied more of the veneer glue to both sides of my substraight, centered my veneer on the top and put another veneer on the bottom. Now it goes in the vacuum bag for a couple hours. It's very important to veneer both sides. If you dont, it will curl up towards the veneered side.

 

[Aegwyn11]

It's very important to veneer both sides. If you dont, it will curl up towards the veneered side.

So when you say "it will curl up" you mean the substrate? So then did you cover the bottom veneer with what looks to be felt fabric?

 

[Bill Wyko]

It won't come unglued, it'll just bow the whole thing. As the moisture of the glue dissipates, the wood shrinks and causes it to curl the whole thing towards the side with the veneer. Adding a piece to the opposite side will counter act this issue. I've even had it do this to 3/4" baltic birch plywood.