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INTRODUCTION It seems like everyone has made a grease box except me. I never heard of one until seeing Roy Underhill's Grease Box Video of "The Woodwright's Shop". After making this, I'm hoping I'll now belong to a GBOC ( grease box owners club). LOL! I didn't have any Walnut but did have lots of Spalted Maple, Eastern Hard Rock Maple, and Torrefied Maple. So I decided to make mine out of the latter two. PREPARING STOCK and SCRIBING I found a chunk of Torrefied Maple, which I used for the box. I roughed out the size to 4-1/8" L x 1-5/8" W x 1-5/8"H. In Fig 1, you'll see the steps of marking up the parts with a couple of my gauges. I lightly scribed two lines 5/16" in and apart with one of my homemade gauges. When finished they'll be 1/4" thick. Then, I used my LV micro adjust wheel marking gauge to go over the scribed lines. I didn't want any ragged lines from the pin type cutter left by my home made gauge. Fig 1 SEPARATING PARTS In Fig 2, I began by separating the parts into a Cover lid, Locking lid, and the main body. I used my LV Dovetail Saw 20 TPI, and a Japanese Ryobi pull saw. Fig 2 MAKING the BUTTERFLY DOVETAIL I'm not sure what to call this. It's butterfly shaped like a spline yet operates when closing the lid like a dovetail. Ergo, I call it a "Butterfly Dovetail". I made it using the Eastern Hard Rock Maple and with my LV extra fine dozuki saw. The part, Fig 3, was a bit small for me to handle and finicky, but I managed okay. It's not perfect but will do. This part, as everyone probably knows, acts as a locking feature for the Cover Lid, which slides into it. Then the Locking Lid swings around and locks the Cover Lid and everything into place. To see how this operates look at the Grease Box Video from Roy Underhill's of the "The Woodwright's Shop". Fig 3 SANDING and REFINING Sanding the parts was slow. Torrefied Maple is hard as a rock. It's also difficult to chisel end grain because it's a bit brittle. Having said this, when done and being successful, it yields beautiful smooth results. I used 80, 150, and 220 grit. FINISHING Finally per Fig 4, I finished all the parts with two coats of a 50/50 cut of pure Tung Oil. I let this dry for a couple of nights. Then I applied wood butter and polished. Fig 4 Here’s my Grease Box full of my home made “Wood Butter” Fig 5 Here’s the Grease Box opening process from left to right, top to bottom. Fig 6 Conclusion All in all it was a nice little project. There were a few hiccups but it was fun. It seems a little small but I wanted to try one to see how it went and maybe it will lead to making another larger one. Thanks for Looking! Cheers! MrRick
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If any of you are interested in hand tools and methods, there is a YouTube channel with a bunch (80+) short videos on methods and tools. I have Graham's book and met him in person a few years ago. One interesting thing is that he also played guitar at Woodstock in 1969. https://www.youtube.com/@gjbmunc
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By request in another thread, I'll tell a little about my experience at Roy Underhill's Woodwright's School. The class that I took was the two-day Introduction to Hand Tool Woodworking, the first weekend in March, 2018. You can see the description here: https://www.woodwrightschool.com/classes/introduction-to-hand-tool-woodworking-w-roy-underhill-2019 This is one of the most popular classes and is already sold out for the five offerings in 2019. In late 2017 I kept checking his web site almost every day, and managed to catch it the first day that enrollment opened up for 2018, but before he had sent out the email announcing that fact. I'll start by saying that he's great as a teacher, at least for my inclinations and my (low) level of expertise with hand tools. He's just as entertaining as he is on television. We flew to North Carolina from Michigan. My wife found stuff to do in and around Pittsboro for the two days I was in class, and then we spent most of the rest of the week visiting Asheville and other spots. I think there were twelve in the class, with each of us getting our own bench. The ages skewed older, as you would expect, but encouragingly there were a few younger guys and two women as well. Roy provides all the tools, but you're free to bring your own, and a couple of people did. I was flying with only carry-on luggage, and I didn't think chisels, saws, etc. would make it past TSA so I left mine at home. However, I did bring a saw handle with me. The floor above the school is occupied by an amazing vintage tool store run by Ed Lebetkin. I had a vintage Spear and Jackson backsaw from an estate sale that was missing two of its split nuts and had two broken bolts. I was hoping Ed would have some parts to make it whole again. I'll continue this later, but end for now with two photos. From the first morning, I'm splitting some green wood with a froe on the sidewalk in front of the school, destined to later become bench hooks. From the second afternoon, I'm resawing with a frame saw to create the bottom for a small box. Both of these were among a number of "firsts" for me during the weekend.
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