I find myself in unchartered territory again...I still trying to put my thoughts on some boxes, jewelry maybe??? or what ever they might become. One for sure for I might have it the size of a young lad who has passed....I don't want to build coffins but, boy oh boy, it sure is getting about that size as I keep adding boards here and there...

 I just know noticed my letters are slanting again and have no idea as to what happened...didn't touch anything....

I glued some piece of boards together for the 4 corners and they , I hope will be carved and they also will be long enough to be the feet on said box... 

 Most all the shaping was done with my very old Sears 12" band saw which I only use a 3/16" blade in it and only use it for making my 10 drawer scroll saw jewelry boxes because this small of blade will turn on a dime and even give me back some change if I need it to do that..and besides I only use a 1/2" blade in the big band saw and it never does anything for me except to cut straight lines...also it does it perfect so I don't let anyone touch my big band saw for it stays set for that one thing...

 So having never carved a two sided corner for a box before so what I do is start big and keep cutting down until I think things fits each other so nothing looks out of place.... I hope you guys gets my thinking for its easier to reduce the size than to enlarge something that happens to be too small. I have not drawn anything up as in carved corners for jewelry boxes but I have been looking at pictures of different things an am getting confused.

  All these boxes are still not glued together yet but I have done got my moneys worth with the Porter Cable 23 gage pin nailer...for I can shoot one 23 gage nail in each piece of wood and things will stay connected until I am through sizing things up and or changing my mind with out tearing things up and can even take boards apart and then go back in the same little hole I was in before...Even more better than the spring clamps I use all the time....which one might slip just a hair now and then but I might miss it for it wasn't enough to see the difference in the slipped goof up.

  I'm working on a few boxes at a time and jumping back and forth is making me waste lots of time to orientate myself off of one thing on to something else with all different measurements.

  I have had two large drum sanders in my air conditioned part of this 30 x 62 foot barn-shop and yesterday I got my wife to help me and we moved one drum sander out in to the hot part of the barn and moved the Sears 12" band saw in to the cool shop... and a 36" door had to come off and even though all my things are on wheels I had to take both pieces and set them off the dollies to go through the door opening...Every thing in my cool shop had to be moved almost. In this part of Texas dirt dobbers are everywhere in the summer and all the stuff in the hot part of the shop the dobbers have access to all the equipment so this is a disaster I created for I did not insulate or close lots of gaps in the sheet metal and metal building. Just the 30 x 30 or so I call my cool shop for there is 6" insulation every where with a concrete floor so only me and the small snakes have access to the cool part of the shop.. I say for I was standing in the bathroom peeing and under the big breaker panel a small snake stuck his head and part of his body out towards me and gave me a tong or two as a greeting or something. The only place he could have gotten in the wall from the outside was I had taken a pvc air line and moved it to the other room when I went and put a commode down and connected it to the waste vent pipe I had decided to do while I was putting up forms for concrete and thought this would be real nice to have a sink and a commode in my shop so while I was putting in the forms I bought all the pipe and installed it before the concrete was poured... so now I still have this little hole that I never covered when I moved my pvc about 6 foot down the wall to the shop area...

  Did I mention I use pvc for all my air lines and have use pvc in all my shops since I been married..

  Did I also mention I have never had a leak and no problem ever.. I run an air line down to my dock and another air line over the brother in laws house next door here at the lake...The go cart track had at least 400 foot of 3/4" air lines just in one straight line going to the other shop which was across 4 acres of land.. Never a problem!! Use to when I come out of the ground I would switch over to electrical pvc for it is UV protected but now I just paint it every once on a while with some oil base paint and this protects it from the sun,,,,,,,I guess it does for it has never leaked. 

 

 

 

 

 

Great stuff foam will help seal out the holes around pipes and between galvanized metal.

As for those corners, 6-7 curved grooves going up one side, then reverse print the pattern for the other side. Message me and I'll draw it out for you.

Thanks for the offer Mike. I didn't know you carved. I'm trying to learn using grinders instead of knives.

The tire shops and auto repair shops around here use CPVC for their air lines. Do you use any air tools with your carving? I've got a couple high speed hand pieces that are air driven but they only need around 10 psi. 

    All my air lines have been sch 40 and when I go under ground I use galvanized pipe above the ground then connect to the pvc a few inches below ground level.

 

  Yes on the air tools. All the larger areas of all my carvings that can take the larger bits like all the 1/4" shaft size bits I use these. All the older looking ones I accumulated while selling Mac tools. I have been doing woodworking since I got out of high school. And did have a wood working shop with one hired hand for a few years.  And always on weekends. I have lots of larger air grinders and a few air files like the body shops uses. There is a lot less maintenance using air tools if a person is using an inline water trap. Its also good to use an inline air regulator like in the lower right hand side for some of the air grinders do not have an easy way to lower the speeds and some are not easy to let off the trigger to go less rpm's... Fingers gets tired doing it for long periods.

  The three angle grinders are from Harbor Freight. The red grinders are Rodac which was about the first Japan built air tools. Do you remember the name Buffalo tools. There were also about the first wrenches that Japan made for the US. There were not too good but I had customer mechanics that wanted a second line of tools for the house and weekends of car repairs...but would not use them on regular work days at their regular jobs...and were not guaranteed.

  Those flapper sanding wheels are great and long lasting but only one brand is work buying.....

Gene did they say why they choose to use cpvc for it is rated much less psi than the sch 40. 600 psi compared to 100 on the 1/2" size and the 3/4" sch 40 I use has been rated 480 psi ever since I been using it......curious? but also cpvc has a stated rating for 73 degrees it is rated at 100 psi and 400 psi at 180 degrees..  where the pvc 40 is always used  at 73 degrees or less..

Edited June 8, 20206 yr by Smallpatch

2 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

Gene did they say why they choose to use cpvc for it is rated much less psi than the sch 40. 600 psi compared to 100 on the 1/2" size and the 3/4" sch 40 I use has been rated 480 psi ever since I been using it......curious? but also cpvc has a stated rating for 73 degrees it is rated at 100 psi and 400 psi at 180 degrees..  where the pvc 40 is always used  at 73 degrees or less..

I was told that they blew out/ruptured too many PVC lines. My limited research says the only difference is in in it's ability to withstand temps. Both are rated higher than any normal shop would have. Dunno why the PVC burst. 

13 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Dunno why the PVC burst. 

In a auto shop environment metal is recommended to guard against impacts.  Such as a brake rotor that gets chucked into a corner pile.  Whole assortment of other stuff get thrown from cars, to include tools but PVC is just not up to such a task long term.  Does not mean metal pipe does not have its drawbacks though.  

 

I used CPVC for my shop to get several outlets.  All mine is inside the walls, taking away the impact potential.  Never had a ruptured line in 20+ years.  BUT I did change all the ends to metal after I had a failure with a CPVC end.  It did not take well to the stress and the threads were pulled some.  Simple fix and only had 6 ends to do so no problem lesson learned.  I do like it for the flexibility of adding a line or shortening as I had to do when I changed a regulator assembly once.  

 

Water line is protected by this cover that runs along back side of shop.  Again to guard against impacts as well as a flood.

 

  

 

 

Your letters are slanted because your BIG finger that went to push the shift key to make a upper case I also touched the CTRL key like this. Now everything tilts....To turn it off just push CTRL and I again and you will be back to normal....

I am still working on these boxes but seems other things are getting in the first come column first..

  Thanks Kevin. My fingers seems to be bigger than when I took typing in school or else the key boards are shrinking! Still haven't had a chance to see what you told me yet! but I will..

  I put a secret drawer in one of the boxes but can't find it?

 

 

I can't decide what the best size box should be so that's more of the experiments.