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sparky961:
One final post to finish things off here.

I had completed doing all the rods a while back, maybe last week sometime.  The piece of wood that came with the set was pretty sad looking, and cupped pretty extremely.  I planned from the beginning to make something a bit more appropriate for this piece of precision equipment.

I thought about doing a box but when I open a drawer to reach for a tool, it's annoying to have to open another box too.

No big write up for this, but basically I designed it in SolidWorks using a picture as a background to make sure everything would fit.  I then printed it out 1:1 and glued it to a piece of wood that wasn't quite as big as I had originally planned.  While holding it in the milling vice, it was a pretty simple matter of "driving" the mill around and cutting it out following the pattern - that is, until the glue let loose.... but I got 'er done and am quite happy with the results.  The sequence of pictures shows design, milling, before staining, and a nice final glamour shot.

vtsteam:
That looks nice Sparky.  :clap:

dsquire:
Sparky

They will always have a home now and if one tries to hide under the bench you will know it right away. Nice job too.  :D :D

Cheers  :beer:

Don

krv3000:
a man after me own hart a job well dun

Stilldrillin:
Blummin well done, and shown, Sparky!  :thumbup: :clap: :clap:

David D

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