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Round Blocks
I want to make a few round blocks that are 1" long X 1"
diameter. With the wooden desk measuring at one inch, this isn't enough
material for me to work with so I'm gluing some pieces together.
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I saw cut them into two inch lengths so I
have enough to grab onto while in my lathe.
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The one inch diameter is finished, along with some
sanding and now it's time to cut off the block. I'm using my parting
tool for this but I'm staying away by about 1/4" and then sand
the back edge. Once it was all sanded, I cut all the way through.
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I wanted some of the round pieces to became 'half round' so I'm milling
them here.
In total, I made many different size blocks ranging from
one inch long to four inches long, some being square, some being
rectangle and like you see below, some being round. Now it's time to
make something to put them all in.
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Making A Box
I'm making a wood box out of poplar, mostly because it's
nice and light. The reason for this is because I ended up with a lot of
blocks, so this lighter wood is a
good choice. However, poplar is not very hard but it's easy to work
with. The pieces are 21" long X 8" wide. I plan on making a box that
will be 20" X 14 1/4" X 3 1/4" tall.
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I want to machine the thickness down to 1/2" so I'll be
using two vises for this. My Kurt vise has no problem holding larger
pieces, however the other one does not. What I'm doing is moving the
hardened jaw to the other side of the solid jaw to give me more room to
hold my work piece.
Notice the two arrows are pointing at an inside jaw and
an outside jaw. But the two jaws are in alignment with each other so it
will hold my work piece parallel. Now this is an unconventional setup
here because you would normally have both jaws line up with each other
without doing what I've done. On the other hand, I say...whatever works!
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This should give you a better idea of what I'm doing. And now I'm
ready to start cutting.
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Here you can see I'm machining my work piece, which is a little messy.
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After machining both sides I ended up with this. Look
close and you'll see the center is smaller than the outer edges, which
is not good. As I'm holding the board in the vise, it's moving upwards
while it's clamped. Once I open the vise, it relaxes and moves back.
That's why the center is smaller than the outside.
The reason this is happening is because I'm not able to
hold the piece of wood down into the vise like I need to. With the one
vise being smaller, I'm forced to hold onto a very small portion of my
work piece, bowing it while it's being clamped. Now if this were a piece
of metal, this wouldn't happen. So now what am I going to do? If I only
had a wood planer.
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