You did good, Stu!!!
Thanks you sir!
would be really cool if you could burn on a logo from your business or personal logo.
I'll put my makers mark on the bottom and I'll sign and date the bottom as well.
Or use your CNC to carve in something appropriate.
If I had the time I would, but I was up until 7 AM yesterday morning, yes, you read that correctly 7 AM sanding, and applying finish, it take a long time to sand all those nooks and finish them, if I ever do one of these again I'll sand and finish it all before I assemble it..... live and learn....
This deserves a
and a few more
Great looking and useful looking box. Hope you and your better half get some other vacation/rest/fun at some other time!!
Yeah, well that is life, Art.
No problem if you stay away from breaking in each one of them before packing things up
Gonna be a well received gift, nicely done Stu!
Sadly no time for beer right now, but Sunday, yeah, I'm going to tip a few!
"Mug Shot or Bottoms Up" ?
Looks great Stu. It'll be much appreciated for sure.
I certainly hope so!
OK I got the box all glued up.
Now I need to fill in all of these dados, for looks and for structural reasons.
I cut some pieces of the same plywood and then ripped them into thin sticks to fit tight in the dados.
Using a scrap piece of wood in the lid groove to make sure they did not interfere with the lid.
Using some thick CA glue I set each piece in place
Then I cut them off with my flush cut saw
I know the results are not perfect but they are good enough for a beer jockey storage box I think
The first coat of varnish on everything, boy it took a LONG time hand sanding those cubby holes and then varnishing them.
Once it is dry I'll do a light sanding on the inside then sand the outside and try to get two more coats on the outside before we leave tonight at midnight.
The handles will be rope, I think I figured out a good way to chain the rope into a nice enough handle.
Wish me luck