Lidded Box

[Roger Chandler]

4.5" wide and 5" tall at the tip of the knob. I have numerous small pieces of wood in my shop.....cutoffs from other projects and too big to throw away or burn in the woodstove, so on this one it was about the right size to make a box.........had not made one in a while, so thought I would utilize it for a box form, and get some of these smaller pieces processed!

This tree came from a neighbor's property a couple of years ago......the "arborist" that took it down said it was black locust........I think it is more likely a variety of oak!

 

[Mark Hepburn]

4.5" wide and 5" tall at the tip of the knob. I have numerous small pieces of wood in my shop.....cutoffs from other projects and too big to throw away or burn in the woodstove, so on this one it was about the right size to make a box.........had not made one in a while, so thought I would utilize it for a box form, and get some of these smaller pieces processed!

This tree came from a neighbor's property a couple of years ago......the "arborist" that took it down said it was black locust........I think it is more likely a variety of oak!

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Roger, very nice. I want to learn to do a variety of boxes myself. Mind if I borrow your ideas?

Also is that paint or burnt dark lines or what?

Mark

 

[Roger Chandler]

Roger, very nice. I want to learn to do a variety of boxes myself. Mind if I borrow your ideas?

Also is that paint or burnt dark lines or what?

Mark

Be my guest Mark! The lines are burnt in with a piece of guitar string. Make sure you have handles on one of these......you could easily loose a finger if you try to hold the wire with your bare hands! 😱

 

[Mark Hepburn]

Be my guest Mark! The lines are burnt in with a piece of guitar string. Make sure you have handles on one of these......you could easily loose a finger if you try to hold the wire with your bare hands! 😱

Thanks Roger. I'll make a couple of T handles for it.

Mark

 

[Bill Boehme]

I went into a music store several years ago to buy some guitar strings for wire burning and was suddenly faced a barrage of questions -- which strings, acoustic or electric, flamenco, Les Paul, classical. I tried to explain my intended use. The horror of such a non-musical travesty -- it would have been better to fabricate a bald-faced lie. I managed to talk them into selling me a few strings, but it would be better if you know somebody who plays a guitar to talk them out of a broken string or at least serve as a middleman in procuring some new strings.

 

[Richard Avram]

I went into a music store several years ago to buy some guitar strings for wire burning and was suddenly faced a barrage of questions -- which strings, acoustic or electric, flamenco, Les Paul, classical. I tried to explain my intended use. The horror of such a non-musical travesty -- it would have been better to fabricate a bald-faced lie. I managed to talk them into selling me a few strings, but it would be better if you know somebody who plays a guitar to talk them out of a broken string or at least serve as a middleman in procuring some new strings.

That's funny Bill, thanks for the laugh. My wife bought me a set of them a couple years ago from craft supply. Different lengths and different diameters, all with balls on the ends for easy handling. There's really not much expense to them especially since they never seem to wear out.

 

[Gretch Flo]

I went into a music store several years ago to buy some guitar strings for wire burning and was suddenly faced a barrage of questions -- which strings, acoustic or electric, flamenco, Les Paul, classical. I tried to explain my intended use. The horror of such a non-musical travesty -- it would have been better to fabricate a bald-faced lie. I managed to talk them into selling me a few strings, but it would be better if you know somebody who plays a guitar to talk them out of a broken string or at least serve as a middleman in procuring some new strings.

Bill-reminds me of a time at a craft show I had a beautiful small bowl that had a natural large dip in the rim. Guy asked me if he could use it as an ashtray!!!!😱 I hope he was pulling my leg!!!! Gretch

 

[Bill Boehme]

Bill-reminds me of a time at a craft show I had a beautiful small bowl that had a natural large dip in the rim. Guy asked me if he could use it as an ashtray!!!!😱 I hope he was pulling my leg!!!! Gretch

If he was a smoker, he was dead serious. 🙄

BTW, the cost of the guitar strings was about a third the cost of the wire burners with the colored balls. Being cheap, I'll go through a lot to save a few dollars.

 

[Syd Sellers]

I went into a music store several years ago to buy some guitar strings for wire burning and was suddenly faced a barrage of questions -- which strings, acoustic or electric, flamenco, Les Paul, classical. I tried to explain my intended use. The horror of such a non-musical travesty -- it would have been better to fabricate a bald-faced lie. I managed to talk them into selling me a few strings, but it would be better if you know somebody who plays a guitar to talk them out of a broken string or at least serve as a middleman in procuring some new strings.

Try this, if you know someone that is a welder, ask them if they have any MIG wire for Stainless work. This is what I use, cost nothing as compared to strings. Welders through away more of this stuff than we would ever use....
Turn Safe!!!

 

[Mark Hepburn]

I went into a music store several years ago to buy some guitar strings for wire burning and was suddenly faced a barrage of questions -- which strings, acoustic or electric, flamenco, Les Paul, classical. I tried to explain my intended use. The horror of such a non-musical travesty -- it would have been better to fabricate a bald-faced lie. I managed to talk them into selling me a few strings, but it would be better if you know somebody who plays a guitar to talk them out of a broken string or at least serve as a middleman in procuring some new strings.

Well the string depends on the piece. You would want a classical for a traditional piece, etc 😀

My son in law plays. Woo hoo, free stuff!

 

[Mark Hepburn]

Try this, if you know someone that is a welder, ask them if they have any MEG wire for Stainless work. This is what I use, cost nothing as compared to strings. Welders through away more of this stuff than we would ever use....
Turn Safe!!!

Syd, even better. We have a mig welder in the maintenance shop here at work. More free stuff!

 

[Syd Sellers]

Syd, even better. We have a mig welder in the maintenance shop here at work. More free stuff!

Yes, it comes in a verity of gauges as well so you can pick the right one for the project.... I wouldn't try the flux filled wire but any of the other wire will work well. I put a Tee handle on each end and it's a done job...

 

[Bill Boehme]

?.. More free stuff!

... And you might suddenly have a lot more woodturning friends than you knew existed around Houma. 🙄

It's also good for catching gators.

 

[Mark Hepburn]

... And you might suddenly have a lot more woodturning friends than you knew existed around Houma. 🙄

It's also good for catching gators.

I usually just use my 12 ga. for the occasional gator.

Kidding. Actually, for the occasional gator I call the alligator man. He comes out and takes them back to the swamp.

But one time one of our guys at work tried to scare one off with a forklift. All he did was get the forklift stuck in my front yard. Sheesh!

It would be good to find some turning friends here. Actually thinking about actively pursuing that this year. Considering the amount if fab and machine shops here, probably some talented guys in the area.

 

[Hu Lowery]

might need to create some

I usually just use my 12 ga. for the occasional gator.

Kidding. Actually, for the occasional gator I call the alligator man. He comes out and takes them back to the swamp.

But one time one of our guys at work tried to scare one off with a forklift. All he did was get the forklift stuck in my front yard. Sheesh!

It would be good to find some turning friends here. Actually thinking about actively pursuing that this year. Considering the amount if fab and machine shops here, probably some talented guys in the area.

Mark,

You might consider trying to start a turner's club for the Houma area. If it gets going well then go for AAW affiliation. Thought about doing it here but if I got everyone in town to take up wood turning we couldn't fill a phone booth!

I would never, well almost never, maybe but not often, well only in the most demanding circumstances like a severe desire for sauce piquant, consider poaching. However after tasting a Cajun lady's sauce piquant from about a three foot gator I have a lot of trouble not looking at those under five or six feet long as sauce piquant on the hoof! If one comes for supper what can you do?

I did have about a ten footer want to do lunch one day. I didn't care for the idea.

Hu

 

[Bill Boehme]

I looked up some recipes for alligator sauce piquant, but it seems like I might be missing the main ingredient. If is ain't too much trouble, could you put a smallish gator in a flat rate box and send it to me?

I am not sure how much I could trust some of the recipes because they misspelled piquant. I believe that they must have had picante sauce on the brain.

 

[Mark Hepburn]

I looked up some recipes for alligator sauce piquant, but it seems like I might be missing the main ingredient. If is ain't too much trouble, could you put a smallish gator in a flat rate box and send it to me?

I am not sure how much I could trust some of the recipes because they misspelled piquant. I believe that they must have had picante sauce on the brain.

Bill, you want that gator fresh or frozen? 🙂

Around here, if it's a authentic recipe it prolly ain't spelled keerekt. 🙂

 

[Bill Boehme]

Bill, you want that gator fresh or frozen? 🙂

Decisions.

I was sort of thinking that I could fatten up a live one by putting it in the pond in the park behind our house. But then we might have some postal employees who aren't very open minded about some things not to mention that our city might not look favorably on free-range ranching. It never occurred to me that frozen gator might be a regular supermarket item in Louisiana.

 

[Mark Hepburn]

Decisions.

I was sort of thinking that I could fatten up a live one by putting it in the pond in the park behind our house. But then we might have some postal employees who aren't very open minded about some things not to mention that our city might not look favorably on free-range ranching. It never occurred to me that frozen gator might be a regular supermarket item in Louisiana.

Yep. Free range is the way to go. Put it on a leash 😀

The meat is readily available all around here. About 30 minutes down the bayou is a farm operation with about 25,000 (not a typo) alligators. They supply Louis Vuitton and others with the hides and of course there's a big market for the meat in the area.

 

[Roger Chandler]

Wow! I am totally okay about the gator talk 'an all..........just surprises me how the content of a thread can morph the way it does!

Just want to thank all of you for your comments about the box.......much appreciated!

 

[Mark Hepburn]

Wow! I am totally okay about the gator talk 'an all..........just surprises me how the content of a thread can morph the way it does!

Just want to thank all of you for your comments about the box.......much appreciated!

Roger,

Oh yes, the box...

Kidding 😀

Thanks again for posting it. And for the pointer on the burning wire. Going to try that out soon. Gotta get a string from son-in-law 🙂

Mark

 

[Bill Boehme]

I just noticed that I neglected to comment on Roger's box. It is very nicely done and I like the fact that the grain on the lid matches up with the body grain. The wire burned details are a very nice touch.

It seems like a natural progression: burning -> steel wire -> gators -> sauce piquant. 🙄

 

[Roger Chandler]

I just noticed that I neglected to comment on Roger's box. It is very nicely done and I like the fact that the grain on the lid matches up with the body grain. The wire burned details are a very nice touch.

It seems like a natural progression: burning -> steel wire -> gators -> sauce piquant. 🙄

........yep, & .....armadillos, fire ants and crawdads! 🙄😀

Thank you Mr. B..........I always enjoy your posts, no matter what the subject! 🙂 Thanks for the comment on the box!