![]() I decided to add a thin layer of cherry that was left over from the wood used to make the chair from Pope Francis’ visit in September 2015. ![]() The top from the first carve was the best so I cut it off and prepared to attach it to one with the correct back side. I cut out the individual halves and found the two parts that worked the best. On the second try, I had a problem with the front, but the back turned out good.Īfter about the third time, I came up with a new plan to utilize the best parts from all three carves. The top half of the board carved perfectly on the first try but there was a tracking error when I flipped the board over and the back was wrong so I aborted the carve and tried again. I created a program that would carve out the top and bottom half of the box from the same piece of wood. Once I cleaned up the sides as well, I loaded the board into my Carvewright CNC router. With one flat face, I ran it through the planer to make the opposite side flat as well and parallel to the first. Holly tends to twist a lot so I ran it across the jointer several times until I had a clean face to work from. I picked out a clear board with no knots and cut a piece off the end to use. This tree was cut down about a year ago and I had a friend cut up several boards, from it, for me. I wanted to use something unique for the wood so I dug into the pile of Holly that I have been drying. We looked at a lot of engagement ring boxes online and he came up with a simple design that had some significance to the both of them. When he bought the ring a couple of weeks ago, I offered to make a ring box for it. Congratulations to my son Ian, he just got engaged to a lovely young lady today.
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