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Post by artsyone on Mar 8, 2024 18:53:45 GMT -5
Luan Plywood! Is that a product from Hawaii? No. It's plywood invented by a woman named Lu Ann. |
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Post by Clipper on Mar 8, 2024 23:15:06 GMT -5
Actually it is a product of the Philippines, made with several species of hardwood trees native to the islands. I had to look it up. I have used it for years but never really cared where it came from.
It is a very versatile product. !/4 inch thick Luan is very light and is sanded so it takes a finish easily. I always have some around and use it for many projects such as birdhouses. I buy a sheet and it lasts a year or so, just cutting small pieces for small projects.
I recently made a small felt lined box, stained and hand rubbed with wax for a friend that plays on a dart league. It has slots to hold the darts in place and he carries his darts to and from dart tournaments in it. Some of the folks on his league want one. I have orders for three more and I am charging 20 bucks for the finished product. I can cut out the pieces, and fabricate the box in a little over an hour, and it takes another 1/2 hour to stain it and a 1/2 hour finish it with wax. I am not out to make a huge profit. I enjoy making them. I used jewelry box hinges for my buddy's box.
Let's face it. Carrying a set of throwing darts in your pants pocket can result in puncture wounds to areas that one would not care to have puncture wounded.
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Post by BHU on Mar 9, 2024 14:36:25 GMT -5
Luan Plywood! Is that a product from Hawaii? No. It's plywood invented by a woman named Lu Ann.  |
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Post by Clipper on Mar 9, 2024 22:50:01 GMT -5
I made the 3 boxes today and stained them with an oil base stain. The only hold up in making them is the wait between staining and waxing. It takes a week or so for the stain to completely soak into the wood and dry enough to take a finish with the beeswax paste polish.
There is not a lot of pretty grain to the plywood veneer but when polished the boxes look pretty good. I am going to plane some pieces of cherry that I have left from a solid cherry mantel my neighbor gave to me and that I had a local woodworker with a bigger band saw re-saw it for me. I will run it through my thickness planer until it is about 3/8" thick and put a finish on it. The grain in this wood is quite striking. If it comes out good I may plane enough of it down to take a shot at a jewelry box or two. That will be a bit more challenging because I will have to join the corners with a box joint or small hand cut dovetails. Box joints and dovetails are difficult and take a lot of precision work to make them fit cleanly and tightly. Learning to make a proper finely fitted box joint will be a new skill that I have been wanting to attempt for a while.
Spring is coming on and I will be busy doing other things and will only be spending time in my shop on rainy days when I can't be outside. I haven't been spending any time out there since Kathy got so sick in December.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 10, 2024 6:58:52 GMT -5
Let us know when you expand your product line up to making carry cases for bowling balls.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 10, 2024 8:26:03 GMT -5
Let us know when you expand your product line up to making carry cases for bowling balls. LOL! Actually we are abandoning the dart box. I had cut a 1"x1" square piece of pine into two triangular pieces and glued the half inch pieces into the corners of the box to hold it together. There was no way to dress up the raw edge of plywood other than wood filler and the box I made for my friend started coming apart at the corner. The three I had made for his friends went into the bin for kindling for the woodstove. So much for making boxes out of 1/4 inch Luan. I may make him one out of oak or cherry with box jointed corners if I can master the joint and that will be the only one I make. I seldom charge anyone for anything I make. It is mostly small projects like the toys I have made in the past and gave away, and the birdhouses and bluebird nesting boxes. I have made gun racks, wall mounted coat racks with a shelf and coat hooks, spice racks, carpenter bee traps made with a piece of 4x4 and a canning jar, a couple of rocking horses, a doll cradle, and a dog house for a neighbor that supplied the materials. When I first purchased my new scroll saw a year or so ago I made "oven sharks" for everyone I knew. It is simply a piece of red oak cut in the shape of a shark about 8 inches long. I cut a dorsal fin to be used to pull out a hot oven rack, and a notch for the mouth used to push the rack back in. The tapered body and tail are the handle. One year at Christmas I made countertop racks to hold a cook book upright and open while a person is preparing a recipe or to prop up a tablet. I still have one that I use to prop my Ipad up when I am following instructions or a diagram in the shop. There is an endless number of You Tube "how to" videos available on hobby woodworking sites. I just love working with wood. I do it for the personal satisfaction and relaxation. I used to fish and hunt for relaxation and recreation. Some people paint, knit, crochet, or spend their free time gardening. I just find it to be a relaxing pastime to turn on some music, and make something out of wood. Bowling ball boxes? I suppose I could make you one. I could even put one of my old 16 lb bowling balls in it. You could use it for a desk top paper weight. LOL |
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Post by chris on Mar 10, 2024 13:19:36 GMT -5
Just hope everything goes smoothly and no setbacks so you can get back to your normality again.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Mar 10, 2024 13:52:22 GMT -5
Let us know when you expand your product line up to making carry cases for bowling balls. LOL! Actually we are abandoning the dart box. I had cut a 1"x1" square piece of pine into two triangular pieces and glued the half inch pieces into the corners of the box to hold it together. There was no way to dress up the raw edge of plywood other than wood filler and the box I made for my friend started coming apart at the corner. The three I had made for his friends went into the bin for kindling for the woodstove. So much for making boxes out of 1/4 inch Luan. I may make him one out of oak or cherry with box jointed corners if I can master the joint and that will be the only one I make. I seldom charge anyone for anything I make. It is mostly small projects like the toys I have made in the past and gave away, and the birdhouses and bluebird nesting boxes. I have made gun racks, wall mounted coat racks with a shelf and coat hooks, spice racks, carpenter bee traps made with a piece of 4x4 and a canning jar, a couple of rocking horses, a doll cradle, and a dog house for a neighbor that supplied the materials. When I first purchased my new scroll saw a year or so ago I made "oven sharks" for everyone I knew. It is simply a piece of red oak cut in the shape of a shark about 8 inches long. I cut a dorsal fin to be used to pull out a hot oven rack, and a notch for the mouth used to push the rack back in. The tapered body and tail are the handle. One year at Christmas I made countertop racks to hold a cook book upright and open while a person is preparing a recipe or to prop up a tablet. I still have one that I use to prop my Ipad up when I am following instructions or a diagram in the shop. There is an endless number of You Tube "how to" videos available on hobby woodworking sites. I just love working with wood. I do it for the personal satisfaction and relaxation. I used to fish and hunt for relaxation and recreation. Some people paint, knit, crochet, or spend their free time gardening. I just find it to be a relaxing pastime to turn on some music, and make something out of wood. Bowling ball boxes? I suppose I could make you one. I could even put one of my old 16 lb bowling balls in it. You could use it for a desk top paper weight. LOL I need something small enough to hold my ashes! |
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Post by artsyone on Mar 10, 2024 16:54:36 GMT -5
LOL! Actually we are abandoning the dart box. I had cut a 1"x1" square piece of pine into two triangular pieces and glued the half inch pieces into the corners of the box to hold it together. There was no way to dress up the raw edge of plywood other than wood filler and the box I made for my friend started coming apart at the corner. The three I had made for his friends went into the bin for kindling for the woodstove. So much for making boxes out of 1/4 inch Luan. I may make him one out of oak or cherry with box jointed corners if I can master the joint and that will be the only one I make. I seldom charge anyone for anything I make. It is mostly small projects like the toys I have made in the past and gave away, and the birdhouses and bluebird nesting boxes. I have made gun racks, wall mounted coat racks with a shelf and coat hooks, spice racks, carpenter bee traps made with a piece of 4x4 and a canning jar, a couple of rocking horses, a doll cradle, and a dog house for a neighbor that supplied the materials. When I first purchased my new scroll saw a year or so ago I made "oven sharks" for everyone I knew. It is simply a piece of red oak cut in the shape of a shark about 8 inches long. I cut a dorsal fin to be used to pull out a hot oven rack, and a notch for the mouth used to push the rack back in. The tapered body and tail are the handle. One year at Christmas I made countertop racks to hold a cook book upright and open while a person is preparing a recipe or to prop up a tablet. I still have one that I use to prop my Ipad up when I am following instructions or a diagram in the shop. There is an endless number of You Tube "how to" videos available on hobby woodworking sites. I just love working with wood. I do it for the personal satisfaction and relaxation. I used to fish and hunt for relaxation and recreation. Some people paint, knit, crochet, or spend their free time gardening. I just find it to be a relaxing pastime to turn on some music, and make something out of wood. Bowling ball boxes? I suppose I could make you one. I could even put one of my old 16 lb bowling balls in it. You could use it for a desk top paper weight. LOL I need something small enough to hold my ashes! |
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Post by artsyone on Mar 10, 2024 16:55:36 GMT -5
LOL. Pizza wants you to make him as ash tray!!
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Post by Clipper on Mar 10, 2024 18:29:16 GMT -5
LOL. Pizza wants you to make him as ash tray!! LOL! He wants a small box. It reminds me of something my mom used to say. It pertained to me and the stories I used to tell her growing up, to cover my own butt when I had been somewhere I was not supposed to be or done something I shouldn't have done. I would spin a yarn and she would let me ramble on. When I finished my outlandish story she would tell me " You are so full of sh** that if they gave you and enema they could bury you in a match box." |
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Mar 10, 2024 19:19:05 GMT -5
LOL. Pizza wants you to make him as ash tray!! No not those ashes. I quit 20 years ago. I smoked enough in my life starting at 21 or 22 I forgot was in religious life at the time!!! I figure 21,900 packs of cigarettes a year not counting cigars and a pipe. Now that is 438,000 cigs in my lifetime. Wish I had the money now that I spent because I'd be living in the Riviera with partially clad women at my feet serving and worshipping me while listening to the music of " The Velvet Fog ". |
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 11, 2024 9:37:53 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Mar 11, 2024 10:03:51 GMT -5
We purchased matching cherry boxes for mom and dad's ashes. They were much fancier than the boxes shown. My mom's ashes resided on dad's dresser until he passed away. The boxes had brass plates with their names engraved mounted on the top of the boxes.
I will never forget how the cemetery screwed us. Cremated remains have to be buried in a hole 2 foot square and a designated depth, but with the two of them both being buried next to each other in front of one stone, they could have dug one hole, big enough for both the boxes of ashes. They charges us $175 apiece to open two graves separated by less than a foot. The $175 is the same for a regular grave, big enough to bury a casket and vault. Of course it was not anything we would object to at the time but I did address it to the funeral director later and he agreed that it was not right for them to double charge us.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 11, 2024 10:48:17 GMT -5
We have not looked into that yet which I guess we should. Barb is 5 years younger than I am and women typically live longer than men but it is not really fair of me to just leave it up to her.
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