Hi all,

My wife wants me to build a trunk for her to put her saddle and stuff in to
keep at the stables where she rides. I agreed to make it for our
anniversary, thinking I would find some really nice hardwood plywood for the
main panels and build a frame out of maple or walnut. I spent quite a bit
of time figuring out how to do it with the limited tools that I own right
now and was planning to get started this weekend. I was even going to find
some small pieces of exotic wood and incorporate that into the interior in a
couple places like some of the chests in "The Toolbox Book".

My wife brought me a magazine add Sunday and said she wants the trunk to
look like the one in the picture. It's entirely built from Mahogany. I
said "ok, I'll see if I can find some Mahogany plywood but I don't think
those dovetails are going to look right in plywood so it might not have
those except on the main frame". She gave me a rather disgusted look and
said "Plywood? It says here they don't use any plywood in their boxes. You
mean I won't be able to have those neat little squares on the edges like
this one does? That's one of the things I really like about it.". I told
her how plywood is used for fine cabinetry these days and if we paid someone
to come in and custom build cabinets for us they would probably be mostly
plywood and yada yada yada. She just gave me that look.

I own a 12" CMS, circular saw, biscuit joiner and a Bosch 1617 router with a
half completed router table and a few clamps. How in the world am I going
to get Mahogany panels 30" by 20" out of that. Can I buy boards that big?
Would I have to take out a loan? Can I by prebuilt panels that have already
been planed and joined? I've got about $500.00 to play with to buy the wood
and whatever tools I need. If I can get away with plywood and try to join
with dovetails will it look like crap? Maybe box joints would give a nice
look? Do they even veneer plywood with Mahogany? She mentioned one of her
friends having her box lined with cedar inside. Maybe a cedar panel with
some type of Mahogany veneer so I could honestly say there is no plywood?

My last resort is to lay down the $900.00 for the box in the magazine but if
I can't make this happen it's going to get much harder to explain why I need
an $800.00 table saw in the next couple months. Please help with ideas on
the direction I should go here!

Thanks in advance,
-Chris

My last resort is to lay down the $900.00 for the box in the magazine but
if
I can't make this happen it's going to get much harder to explain why I
need
an $800.00 table saw in the next couple months. Please help with ideas on
the direction I should go here!

Where's the problem?
"I can build it Sweetmeat, but we're going to have to budget just a bit more
for tools."

Seriously, I'd visit the stable and look at other tac boxes to see how they
are constructed. You might be able to subdivide the work between yourself
and a small cabinet shop. Most towns have struggling woodworkers who will
work for cheap.

If your experience is limited to the tools you presently have on hand, you
may find this a difficult project. Plan well; Take it slow; Measure twice,
cut once.

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"cshaw" wrote in message
...

My wife brought me a magazine add Sunday and said she wants the trunk to
look like the one in the picture. It's entirely built from Mahogany.

I own a 12" CMS, circular saw, biscuit joiner and a Bosch 1617 router with
a
half completed router table and a few clamps. How in the world am I going
to get Mahogany panels 30" by 20" out of that.

You see a problem, I see an opportunity (to buy a tabe saw)


Can I buy boards that big?

30" long? Sure they come even longer. Wide? Uh, sorry, you have to join
some together.


Would I have to take out a loan?

This is possible.


Can I by prebuilt panels that have already
been planed and joined?

No, but you may be able to buy some S4S at a local hardwood dealer.


I've got about $500.00 to play with to buy the wood
and whatever tools I need.

You can burn that up pretty fast.


If I can get away with plywood and try to join
with dovetails will it look like crap?

YES !


Maybe box joints would give a nice
look?

There are joints that can be made to look nice. Even a rabetted joint would
be OK if done properly, but others can give better guidance on that.



My last resort is to lay down the $900.00 for the box in the magazine but
if
I can't make this happen it's going to get much harder to explain why I
need
an $800.00 table saw in the next couple months. Please help with ideas on
the direction I should go here!

See, you said you had $500 to work with, but really, the budget is $900.
That will cover the saw (Delta or Jet contractors) and a couple of skinny
boards. Oh, the blade will put you over, but at this point, your wife needs
your talents.
Ed

http://pages.cthome.net/edhome

Lemme get this straight ... you are looking at building a Mahogany
chest to hold riding gear; said box to be housed in a barn? a fine
tropical hardwood to hold leather gear used on a horse? on a budget of
$500? I don't KNOW that it can't be done; I would seriously question
if it SHOULD be done ... but heh, that's just me.



On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:50:06 -0500, "cshaw"
wrote:

Hi all,

My wife wants me to build a trunk for her to put her saddle and stuff in to
keep at the stables where she rides. I agreed to make it for our
anniversary, thinking I would find some really nice hardwood plywood for the
main panels and build a frame out of maple or walnut. I spent quite a bit
of time figuring out how to do it with the limited tools that I own right
now and was planning to get started this weekend. I was even going to find
some small pieces of exotic wood and incorporate that into the interior in a
couple places like some of the chests in "The Toolbox Book".

My wife brought me a magazine add Sunday and said she wants the trunk to
look like the one in the picture. It's entirely built from Mahogany. I
said "ok, I'll see if I can find some Mahogany plywood but I don't think
those dovetails are going to look right in plywood so it might not have
those except on the main frame". She gave me a rather disgusted look and
said "Plywood? It says here they don't use any plywood in their boxes. You
mean I won't be able to have those neat little squares on the edges like
this one does? That's one of the things I really like about it.". I told
her how plywood is used for fine cabinetry these days and if we paid someone
to come in and custom build cabinets for us they would probably be mostly
plywood and yada yada yada. She just gave me that look.

I own a 12" CMS, circular saw, biscuit joiner and a Bosch 1617 router with a
half completed router table and a few clamps. How in the world am I going
to get Mahogany panels 30" by 20" out of that. Can I buy boards that big?
Would I have to take out a loan? Can I by prebuilt panels that have already
been planed and joined? I've got about $500.00 to play with to buy the wood
and whatever tools I need. If I can get away with plywood and try to join
with dovetails will it look like crap? Maybe box joints would give a nice
look? Do they even veneer plywood with Mahogany? She mentioned one of her
friends having her box lined with cedar inside. Maybe a cedar panel with
some type of Mahogany veneer so I could honestly say there is no plywood?

My last resort is to lay down the $900.00 for the box in the magazine but if
I can't make this happen it's going to get much harder to explain why I need
an $800.00 table saw in the next couple months. Please help with ideas on
the direction I should go here!

Thanks in advance,
-Chris

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:50:06 -0500, "cshaw" ran
about in ever tightening circles, wringing his hands and muttering...

I gotta make Chicken Salad out of Chicken Sh*t.

Okay, I made that up. He didn't _actually_ say that but, pretty much,
that was the gist of it.

Hi Chris,

Welcome to woodworking. How do I do what I think is impossible?
Well first, you ask here. Good work. ;

As I see it, the main concern you have, (besides AFFORDING the raw
lumber), is that you don't think you can glue up wide boards without a
table saw and jointer.

Well you can, and you don't even have to use handtools!

You have one, maybe two problems. The important one is getting a
square, clean edge on two adjacent boards for glue-up. The minor one
is getting "good-enough" rips without a table saw. Let's solve them
in reverse order-- how to rip, then how to joint.

You can rip edges close enough to joint by using your circular saw
with a straight edge jig. You're going to make a board that has a
fence that your saw can ride against. Here's how:

1.) Attach a straight board to any board and ride the shoe of your
circular saw against the straight edge as you cut the base board along
it's entire length. (You can even use a piece of hardboard with it's
factory edges for both. Cut a thin strip off the long side, turn it
around so the straight side is over the base, glue it to it, and use
that side to ride the saw on when you cut the base.)

2.) Since your newly cut base marks the exact place your circular saw
cuts, you simply clamp the base on the cut line of your project piece
and rip with confidence.

Ripping problem solved, let's talk about jointing without a jointer.
Two ways:

1.) Clamp the straight edge of the jig you made for your circular saw
about 1/32" away from the edge of a project board you've ripped. Use
a top-bearing pattern bit to route a straight edge on the board. If
you did the ripping correctly, your boards are going to be pretty
dead-on straight and you're just cleaning up the edges here. If for
some reason they're a bit wavy, you may have to make more than one
pass, moving the straight edge back a 32nd or so on each pass.

2.) This one's a bit more complicated, but guarantees not only
straight edges, but edges of adjoining boards that are perfectly mated
to each other. Set the adjoining boards next to each other so that
they are just a bit closer to each other than the diameter of your
router bit. Assuming a 1/2" bit, set them so that there is a gap of
3/8ths of an inch running the length between the boards. Clamp in
place on workbench.

Measure the base of your router. Let's say for this example it's 6
inches. (It very well may not be, I pulled this out of thin air. ; )

Assuming a six inch base, you want to clamp two straight boards,
(again, cheap-o masonite is just fine for this), 6 inches apart from
each other, each one exactly 3 inches from the of the gap you created
between your two project boards. Once you've clamped all this to your
bench, run your router between the top boards and the bit will joint
the adjoining edges of your project boards and any variation in one
side will be reflected in the opposing board so that they both mate
perfectly.

I hope this helps. It's late, this was wordy, and if any of it didn't
make sense you can get a description with drawings by looking in
Taunton's "Methods of Work- Router" book. It's available at all the
big chain bookstores, and I'm pretty sure that's where I first saw
both of these jigs.

I can't help you with how to afford all that mahogany, I don't have a
jig for printing money. ;

Best,
Michael Baglio
Chapel Hill

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 04:04:00 GMT, Michael Baglio
wrote:

Assuming a six inch base, you want to clamp two straight boards,
(again, cheap-o masonite is just fine for this), 6 inches apart from
each other, each one exactly 3 inches from the of the gap...

Damn. That should have been 3 inches from the CENTER of the gap...

MB--

Larry Levinson spaketh...

Lemme get this straight ... you are looking at building a Mahogany
chest to hold riding gear; said box to be housed in a barn? a fine
tropical hardwood to hold leather gear used on a horse? on a budget of
$500? I don't KNOW that it can't be done; I would seriously question
if it SHOULD be done ... but heh, that's just me.

There is nothing wrong with using mahogany for a tack box. I have not used
mahogany for an outdoor project myself, but the local wood guy swears it's
the next best thing to teak. Mahogany has been used in boats so I suspect
it has excellent rot resistance.
--
McQualude

cshaw spaketh...

My wife brought me a magazine add Sunday and said she wants the trunk
to look like the one in the picture. It's entirely built from
Mahogany. I said "ok, I'll see if I can find some Mahogany plywood

She gave me a rather disgusted look and said "Plywood?

These aren't your stables right? She wants to show off. "Look what my
hubby built for me."

I've got about
$500.00 to play with to buy the wood and whatever tools I need.

Without knowing the final dimensions, what is your guestimate of the
board footage you will need? 30 bd/ft? 40 bd/ft? Mahogany can be had for
$5.00 bd/ft around here.

can get away with plywood and try to join with dovetails will it look
like crap? Maybe box joints would give a nice look?

You know your wife, but I don't think she is buying the plywood idea.
Yes it will look like crap if you dovetail the plywood.

My last resort is to lay down the $900.00 for the box in the magazine
but if I can't make this happen it's going to get much harder to
explain why I need an $800.00 table saw in the next couple months.

I built tapered leg tables with nothing more than a circular saw, hand
plane and some chisels. You can build this, but it's going to be some
work. Make sure you 'want' to do this, if you do, you can build it. Take
your time, be determined and just go for it.

Maybe you can build the frame from mahogany and build the floating panels
from veneers, maybe curly maple or burl.
--
McQualude

Hello there,

My wife wants me to build a trunk for her to put her saddle and stuff in
to
keep at the stables where she rides.

You wife is so big she needs a saddle?

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:05:06 GMT, McQualude
wrote:

There is nothing wrong with using mahogany for a tack box.

What's "mahogany" ?

If you're talking about Central American, then I'd regard this as a
waste. I've no objection to using it for a tackbox (you've seen the
price of horses !), but no-one should buy this timber until they have
a fair bit of experience.

The stuff is rare and getting more so. If we want mahogany to be
around in the future, then we have to look seriously at conserving it
_now_. Some species are already CITES listed. Don't waste it on a
first project - save it for something better.


If you mean the more common (certainly in Europe) African "mahogany"
or SE Asian "mahogany", then these are less endangered. Although even
here, the logging practices in countries like Cambodia are pretty
dubious.

Round here, cheap plywood is sold as "mahogany" and is probably made
from Luan. Quite strong and rot-resistant, but it looks featureless
and somewhat ugly. Not bad if you're painting it or you want it bland,
but as natural wood it's just boring.

Don't use birch ply. Nice stuff, but can be a bit soft on the
surface. Not going to wear well at ground level in a stable. Needs a
heavy finish if it's not to develop mould spots either.

Personally I like to use local timber. It fits with local styles and
"looks right". Same goes for the style - if you're in colonial
Virginia, just build a six-board and nail it 8-)

Lon Schleining's book "Treasure Chests"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS.../codesmiths-20
is a beautiful read that any box-maker will appreciate. There's a tack
chest in there too (not plans, just photos). It's solid cherry,
dovetailed, with cherry ply top and bottom.

"Michael Baglio" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 04:04:00 GMT, Michael Baglio
wrote:

Assuming a six inch base, you want to clamp two straight boards,
(again, cheap-o masonite is just fine for this), 6 inches apart from
each other, each one exactly 3 inches from the of the gap...

Damn. That should have been 3 inches from the CENTER of the gap...

MB--

Couldn't he make a panel type box with a solid frame and plywood panel
inserts of plywood? Then he could build each side (frame and panel insert),
dovetail the frame edges together and have a good looking box. I think
chests and furniture with panels like this are nice looking, and dovetailed
corners are great, so would they work together?

Digger




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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:29:34 GMT, McQualude
pixelated:

cshaw spaketh...

My wife brought me a magazine add Sunday and said she wants the trunk
to look like the one in the picture. It's entirely built from
Mahogany. I said "ok, I'll see if I can find some Mahogany plywood

She gave me a rather disgusted look and said "Plywood?

These aren't your stables right? She wants to show off. "Look what my
hubby built for me."

Bog help the person who marries a yuppie S/O.


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Perhaps your solution in in the design.

Why not construct the chest using mahogany ply with a decorative corner
detail out of solid mahogany over the biscuit corner. You could use the same
detailing in the trunk stand. I am willing to bet that as long as the edges
are decorative your wife and her friends won't know the difference.


"cshaw" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

My wife wants me to build a trunk for her to put her saddle and stuff in
to
keep at the stables where she rides. I agreed to make it for our
anniversary, thinking I would find some really nice hardwood plywood for
the
main panels and build a frame out of maple or walnut. I spent quite a bit
of time figuring out how to do it with the limited tools that I own right
now and was planning to get started this weekend. I was even going to
find
some small pieces of exotic wood and incorporate that into the interior in
a
couple places like some of the chests in "The Toolbox Book".

My wife brought me a magazine add Sunday and said she wants the trunk to
look like the one in the picture. It's entirely built from Mahogany. I
said "ok, I'll see if I can find some Mahogany plywood but I don't think
those dovetails are going to look right in plywood so it might not have
those except on the main frame". She gave me a rather disgusted look and
said "Plywood? It says here they don't use any plywood in their boxes.
You
mean I won't be able to have those neat little squares on the edges like
this one does? That's one of the things I really like about it.". I told
her how plywood is used for fine cabinetry these days and if we paid
someone
to come in and custom build cabinets for us they would probably be mostly
plywood and yada yada yada. She just gave me that look.

I own a 12" CMS, circular saw, biscuit joiner and a Bosch 1617 router with
a
half completed router table and a few clamps. How in the world am I going
to get Mahogany panels 30" by 20" out of that. Can I buy boards that big?
Would I have to take out a loan? Can I by prebuilt panels that have
already
been planed and joined? I've got about $500.00 to play with to buy the
wood
and whatever tools I need. If I can get away with plywood and try to join
with dovetails will it look like crap? Maybe box joints would give a nice
look? Do they even veneer plywood with Mahogany? She mentioned one of
her
friends having her box lined with cedar inside. Maybe a cedar panel with
some type of Mahogany veneer so I could honestly say there is no plywood?

My last resort is to lay down the $900.00 for the box in the magazine but
if
I can't make this happen it's going to get much harder to explain why I
need
an $800.00 table saw in the next couple months. Please help with ideas on
the direction I should go here!

Thanks in advance,
-Chris

"Joe Shmoe" wrote in message
. ca...
cshaw wrote:

And if all else fails, look into getting a new wife.


One would think it would be much cheaper to buy the chest than get a new
wife...those upgrades are expensive

(DAMHIKT!)

Rob

http://www.amateurtermite.com

Andy Dingley wrote:
Personally I like to use local timber. It fits with local styles and
"looks right". Same goes for the style - if you're in colonial
Virginia, just build a six-board and nail it 8-)

No, No, NO! In his case, the "correct" style for him to build is "exactly
what SWMBO asked for", especially if she has any influence on the future
budget for WW machinery

--
************************************
Chris Merrill

(remove the ZZZ to contact me)
************************************

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:50:00 GMT, Chris Merrill
wrote:

Andy Dingley wrote:
Personally I like to use local timber. It fits with local styles and
"looks right". Same goes for the style - if you're in colonial
Virginia, just build a six-board and nail it 8-)

No, No, NO! In his case, the "correct" style for him to build is "exactly
what SWMBO asked for", especially if she has any influence on the future
budget for WW machinery

Since my wife doesn't know what mahogany from whatever source looks
like, I need only make the box look like the picture from the catalog.
Use stain on a close grained wood like luan if need be. But I
wouldn't use up good mahogany on a first (or nearly so) project.

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:51:09 -0500, "Digger" DW wrote:
"Michael Baglio" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 04:04:00 GMT, Michael Baglio
wrote:
Assuming a six inch base, you want to clamp two straight boards,
(again, cheap-o masonite is just fine for this), 6 inches apart from
each other, each one exactly 3 inches from the [center] of the gap...

Couldn't he make a panel type box with a solid frame and plywood panel
inserts of plywood? Then he could build each side (frame and panel insert),
dovetail the frame edges together and have a good looking box. I think
chests and furniture with panels like this are nice looking, and dovetailed
corners are great, so would they work together?

Well, everything you suggest sounds good except...

It doesn't address the OP's question. His original question was how
do I _please my wife_ by building _exactly_ what she wants with the
limited power tools I have?

There may be dozens of ways to construct a good looking tack box, but
(apparently) only _one_ specifie box will please the S.O. (At least
that's sure how I read it, especially when he told us she'd already
given him "THE LOOK.")

I sure as hell don't like it when I get "the Look," so I figure all
the best intentioned ideas about how to build something different from
what she wants are only going to knock the guy down a few more rungs
on the wife's "manly-man" ladder.

Know what I mean?

Hmm... he hasn't replied yet though, so maybe he's already dead. ;

Michael Baglio
Chapel Hill

On 13 Aug 2003 11:13:30 -0700, (Mike) wrote:

3) If you glue boards up and use the circular saw/router technique
mentioned above, make sure you get your "straight board" REALLY
straight first -- i.e. find someone with a jointer to do that for you.
....snip... I started out with a
plywood piece I figured was straight and when I got my jointer I was
surprised at how "not" straight it really was

Hmmm... I won't argue with you Mike, since I wasn't there, but I'd be
really suprised if I ever had a glue joint fail using the method I
described in my previous post. Ply is often slightly out of _square,_
but I've never seen a factory edge (that wan't banged up by a BORG
dork) that wasn't "straight" enought to use as a reference fence for
jointing with a router.

The possibility exists though, I suppose, which is why I took the time
to describe option #2-- using the "plow through the gap" method with
the router riding between two straight edges.

Best,
Michael Baglio
Chapel Hill

Wow, thanks to everyone for the replies! I still don't know exactly what
I'm going to do here but I've seen some good ideas. I'm going to let her
take a look at a couple books with finishes in them to see if anything else
jumps out at her. This might be the craziest idea of all but I've been
considering buying a very nice hand saw and a couple high quality chisels
and practicing my heart out on hand cut dovetails this weekend. I'm sure
I'll need to give myself a crash course in sharpening (scary) as well but
maybe if I sneak up on the cuts with the handsaw and finish them carefully
with a truly sharp chisel I'll end up with something nice. I'm thinking the
idea about building a frame and using plywood to fill the large space might
be the way to go here. I'll try to mention the idea again and see if I get
the same look.

There is a Woodcraft store about 20 miles east of me and a Rockler about 20
miles south so I think I'll probably make a round trip through both this
weekend and bug the folks that work at each with novice questions. I'm sure
they love that kind of thing on a busy day. I'm betting one or both will
have some good books on hand cut dovetails too.

-Chris


"cshaw" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

My wife wants me to build a trunk for her to put her saddle and stuff in
to
keep at the stables where she rides. I agreed to make it for our
anniversary, thinking I would find some really nice hardwood plywood for
the
main panels and build a frame out of maple or walnut. I spent quite a bit
of time figuring out how to do it with the limited tools that I own right
now and was planning to get started this weekend. I was even going to
find
some small pieces of exotic wood and incorporate that into the interior in
a
couple places like some of the chests in "The Toolbox Book".

My wife brought me a magazine add Sunday and said she wants the trunk to
look like the one in the picture. It's entirely built from Mahogany. I
said "ok, I'll see if I can find some Mahogany plywood but I don't think
those dovetails are going to look right in plywood so it might not have
those except on the main frame". She gave me a rather disgusted look and
said "Plywood? It says here they don't use any plywood in their boxes.
You
mean I won't be able to have those neat little squares on the edges like
this one does? That's one of the things I really like about it.". I told
her how plywood is used for fine cabinetry these days and if we paid
someone
to come in and custom build cabinets for us they would probably be mostly
plywood and yada yada yada. She just gave me that look.

I own a 12" CMS, circular saw, biscuit joiner and a Bosch 1617 router with
a
half completed router table and a few clamps. How in the world am I going
to get Mahogany panels 30" by 20" out of that. Can I buy boards that big?
Would I have to take out a loan? Can I by prebuilt panels that have
already
been planed and joined? I've got about $500.00 to play with to buy the
wood
and whatever tools I need. If I can get away with plywood and try to join
with dovetails will it look like crap? Maybe box joints would give a nice
look? Do they even veneer plywood with Mahogany? She mentioned one of
her
friends having her box lined with cedar inside. Maybe a cedar panel with
some type of Mahogany veneer so I could honestly say there is no plywood?

My last resort is to lay down the $900.00 for the box in the magazine but
if
I can't make this happen it's going to get much harder to explain why I
need
an $800.00 table saw in the next couple months. Please help with ideas on
the direction I should go here!

Thanks in advance,
-Chris

Hi Chris,

Welcome to woodworking. How do I do what I think is impossible?
Well first, you ask here. Good work. ;


Great info Mike. Thanks for taking the time to post it. I've got a
sawboard I made from MDF already and it does a good job of guiding my
circular saw. I hadn't thought about placing two boards side by side and
routing the inner edge of both at the same time. Pretty cool.

-Chris

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:51:56 -0500, "cshaw"
wrote:

Great info Mike. Thanks for taking the time to post it. I've got a
sawboard I made from MDF already and it does a good job of guiding my
circular saw. I hadn't thought about placing two boards side by side and
routing the inner edge of both at the same time. Pretty cool.

"Methods of Work-- Routers" by Taunton Press and _any_thing by Pat
Warner are worth their weight in Bubinga. You _can_ produce quality
work with a circular saw, router, and some determination. Good luck.

Michael Baglio
Chapel Hill

Andy Dingley spaketh...

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:05:06 GMT, McQualude
wrote:

There is nothing wrong with using mahogany for a tack box.

What's "mahogany" ?

http://www.wood-worker.com/woods/mahogany.htm
this site has info on many common hardwoods

but no-one should buy this timber until they have
a fair bit of experience.

Oh I don't know Andy, I've known people with lots of experience that
shouldn't buy it either. It's a lot less expensive, more common and
easier to work than cherry or walnut. Pine is cheaper, but a lot harder
to work with, IMO.

Round here, cheap plywood is sold as "mahogany"

It's called luan and frequently used on cheap hollow core interior doors

if you're in colonial
Virginia, just build a six-board and nail it 8-)

His wife wants to show off. Personally, I think he should just buy her
the box, but I guess we all start somewhere.
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McQualude

Larry Jaques spaketh...

McQualude
These aren't your stables right? She wants to show off.

Bog help the person who marries a yuppie S/O.

Do yuppies ride horses?
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McQualude

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:26:09 GMT, McQualude
pixelated:

Larry Jaques spaketh...

McQualude
These aren't your stables right? She wants to show off.

Bog help the person who marries a yuppie S/O.

Do yuppies ride horses?

Not around here. They just buy them and let them roam
around pastures all lonely-like. But they like the
"We're like British Lords and Ladies" status symbol of
equine ownership. Weird, wot?


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"cshaw" wrote in message
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Hi all,

My wife wants me to build a trunk for her to put her saddle and stuff in
to
keep at the stables where she rides.

For anyone still tuned in to this, I went Friday and bought a Dozuki saw, a
couple chisels, a Veritas sharpening guide, marking gauge, Starret combo
square plus some other odds and ends. I also bout the Complete Guide to
Sharpening, Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking and the Treasure Chests book
recommended below. Oh, and a Video on hand cut dovetails plus some pine to
practice on. I spent much of yesterday reading about proper sharpening and
then picked up some 1000 and 2000 grit wet paper. I've been playing around
with it this morning and I've got a pretty good lap on the back of one of my
chisels now. I'm still trying to figure out when I've gone far enough on
the bevel though. I think I'll ask about that in a new post though. I
don't think I'm going to get this done within my budget but I do think I've
got a plan to make a nice chest now. Thanks again for all the ideas!

-Chris