GGs,

Nope, not my project:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqH2NrflEk
Skip to the end to see the result, pretty kwel!

Chris

No latch for the top??

Sent from the seat of my pants

Christian says:
> Nope, not my project:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqH2NrflEk
I am impressed at the confidence shown by gluing well before checking fit.
Some people work to much greater precision than I do.
I was initially appalled by scavenging the felt from a usable pool table,
but then remembered Al's story and figured that at least he wasn't using
his wife's heirloom tablecloth.

I've seen that suggestion before, probably here.  There are crazy people
that replace the felt when it's only slightly worn, and it is a nice heavy
felt, so it gives your toolbox a less than virgin look instantly.

And yup, it was here, from no one less than the Happy Camper

http://swingleydev.com/ot/get/202597/single/

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 11:04 AM curt seeliger  wrote:

> Christian says:
> > Nope, not my project:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqH2NrflEk
> I am impressed at the confidence shown by gluing well before checking fit.
> Some people work to much greater precision than I do.
> I was initially appalled by scavenging the felt from a usable pool table,
> but then remembered Al's story and figured that at least he wasn't using
> his wife's heirloom tablecloth.
> --


-- 
Kirk Eppler, with a roll of felt waiting for me to redo the leatherette on
a Gerstner

You got to love this guy!!
  He scrounged up a stack of really good pallets, as pallets go. He's 
got the right bars to break them down too. They don't fly apart easily.
He must have a hell of a metal detector. Who else held their breath over 
that?

I loved his gluing psychology most of all.  That was brilliant!! It made 
everything else possible
Brads, he knows brads!! Forgotten art that it is. Brads were so critical 
for so long. The right size, the right application. (I have a ridiculous 
stash of them.)
I think there was a lot of predrilling going on, off camera. I know I 
wouln't try to get away with so many so close to the edge.

He's using a 4 oz ball pein, lord love him. Its the right size but its 
elegant as a club foot.
   In fact this guy makes you want to SOS him some decent hand tools all 
through. He is making a pretend saw work! That Japanese saw hasn't been 
sharp for years and he wearing though the stock anyway. And God that 
hacksaw made me gasp! haahah I have giveaways in my shed better than that.

  He's got a good mallet though. At least he has a mallet.

I am still struggling with the brass corners. What was that all about? 
Did he glue them in? Why don't they just fall back out next week? How do 
they strengthen the box? They look killer, but I worry hahaah

yours scott


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Scott made some interesting and amusing observations, closed by:


>I am still struggling with the brass corners. What was that all about? 
>Did he glue them in? Why don't they just fall back out next week? How do 
>they strengthen the box? They look killer, but I worry hahaah


At 28:01, he is applying glue prior to tapping in the brass. The appropriate
adhesive, and a little roughening of the faces inside, and they will never come
out. I have used epoxy to hold 360 brass to oak (replacement nameplate- the
escutcheon pin holes were iron-sick and so the brass replacement pins were also
glued in) that has held for better than a decade so far.

I should imagine that the brass is intended to act as a pretty spline, nothing
more fancy, and so helps add more face glue to the joint, as splines do. Just
shiny brass rather than, say, maple.



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One more bit of proof that some very nice wood can be found in pallets if you
keep your eyes open and get a little luck.

About a decade ago now my oldest son had me go to with him to pick up cartons of
wood flooring, as he was laying a new floor in his kitchen and dining room.  And
while we were waiting for the guy on the forklift to come back with his order,
I’m noticing these stacks of exotic wood along the wall.  When the guy showed up
and dropped the load on the floor, I asked him what was up with the stacked
wood, and he says “Oh, that is just the nice stuff we’ve pulled out of the
pallets that arrive here.  We take them apart and put the nice wood there for
our customers — take whatever you want!  Seriously, take it, so we don’t run out
of space.”  We did.  I still have a few pieces of purpleheart and cocobolo from
that day.

Why did this guy put brass corners on his toolbox?  That’s easy — because he
could.  Decoration, because I doubt it reinforces much of anything.  Does look
kinda nice though, and makes it easier to identify if some unkind stranger
lurking around his place decides to take it and gets nabbed by the constabulary.

Charlie

> On Mar 6, 2021, at 3:40 PM, Charles Driggs via OldTools  wrote:
> 
> One more bit of proof that some very nice wood can be found in pallets if you
keep your eyes open and get a little luck.


15 years ago Taylor Guitars - a major American maker Jeff - made 25 guitars from
the pallets at the loading dock.  They sold them for $10,000, when you could get
a good Taylor for $1,200.  They sound OK, but even my guitars sound OK.

http://www.guitaradventures.com/taylor-pallet-guitar-story

Not to mention the papier-mache (paper mashay) guitar made 100 years ago that
also sounded OK

Ed Minch

I think lutherie is part magic, part craftsmanship, part materials, and
part luck. I don't have any of those.

Phil E.