Works of wood turning    [Page54]

Jun. 5/2011
The toothpick carrying box.

I made a toothpick carrying box. The toothpick is the culture of Japan and carrying box becomes ecology. drawing
1.The material is a rosewood and a cherry tree. It is a 20 mm and 13mm square.
2.Making a nesting pipe. Drilling a 7m/m to the cherry tree in the 13mm square.
3.Insert the aluminum pipe of 7m/m in the work piece.Turning after pushing a center.
4.Turning to outside diameter 10m/m.
5.The lower-part of BOX. Miter fence to 45 degrees, put in a back-up board and cutting it together.
6.Gluing a 2 mm thickness cherry tree to the lower-part.
7.Gluing a waste piece to lid and lower-part.
8.Drilling a 10m/m to lid-part.
9.Drilling a 10m/m to lower-part.
10.Remove waste piece. Polish a diagonal surface on the glass board.
11.Glue together nesting pipe at the lower-part. Pushing a pipe center by the tail stock.
12.Glue together a lid-part, before of the turning. Put only a few Bond glues.
13.Insert a lid-part to nesting pipe, and pushing a center of lid-part.Then wait for about 30 minutes.
14.Turning. Last polishing it by steel wool of #0000.
15.Polishing a side face.
16.Bees wax finish. It is beautiful.
82mm height, 14mm diameter. It can store five toothpicks.
This is reverse version.

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