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A Saturday session at Barb's Barn in December |
Everything is ready for full house session on lidded boxes |
With the club lathes and the lathes at the barn, we'll have 13 lathes running during class today |
Jim Hilburger, always willing to lend a hand, helped with the workshop |
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Kurt Hertzog, the instructor for the workshop, sharpens tools before the class |
Some of the example lidded boxes Kurt brought to use as examples |
More of the example boxes |
About ready to start and people getting seated |
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Barb covers a couple of quick housekeeping items and we're ready to start |
Kurt reviews the days outline covering design, techniques, materials, and finishes |
The first consideration is the ultimate use of the box |
Is the desired lid fit a suction fit, snap fit, loose fit, or is it to be threaded? |
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The end use will decide if it should be capable of being opened with one hand or two, and how difficult |
Kurt reviews some of the available information such the Raffan and Stott books |
Everyone will have a 4 by 4 by 9 Mahogany turning block to start, compliments of Ed Jolls of Rockler |
Kurt explains the advantage of end grain boxes regarding seasonal dimension changes |
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He explains why a minimal kerf cut is desired allowing for best grain match between top and bottom |
As a quick aside, he shows how a couple of quick clamps can help with cutting round stock safely |
This method can be used if you don't have a V block available |
Back to lidded boxes, Kurt gets the demonstration of techniques used to make lidded boxes started |
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Photos by Ken Hertzog |
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