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S. Heslop:


I made the cube a couple years ago for my grandparents but the first stand I made (a little brass pip it sort of balanced on) was rubbish and got lost. I just made the new stand in an hour (although it needs a coat of oil or something to finish it, and some solvent to remove the superglue I got all over the top bit). The base is made from some purpleheart I got in a box of turning blanks at a second hand shop.

What I thought was interesting was that I made it in an hour. I've been filling my garage with a plethora of woodworking tools. I made a tablesaw a while back and just finished a Cosmas Bauer style router lift.




Something like this stand would've been more of a project to me in the past, squaring up the wood and stuff by hand. But with the table saw (equipped with a crosscut sled) and router table it took next to no time at all. Machining the brass nuggets was probably the most time consuming part.

Make's it all worthwhile!
Meldonmech:
 
                     Your cube is very effective, have you thought of lighting it with LED'S and a battery in the base?

                                                             Cheers David
S. Heslop:

--- Quote from: Meldonmech on December 27, 2013, 03:25:06 PM ---
                     Your cube is very effective, have you thought of lighting it with LED'S and a battery in the base?

                                                             Cheers David

--- End quote ---

I think that'd be a bit much for my grandparents, but thanks for the suggestion.

I just got the superglue off with ethyl acetate nailpolish remover. Funny stuff, billed itself as ACETONE FREE! but i'd say ethyl acetate is a whole lot worse than acetone. My fingers feel very dry now. I guess it's useful if you're allergic to acetone.
waggle:
Ethyl Acetate is horrible stuff. I used to work with it and in the quantities we sometimes used, we needed to wear a respirator whilst it was exposed.

I once ended up with around a pint over my head from a spilled jug. I was within 6 feet of an eyewash station so had immediate treatment and suffered no ill effects. However, on waking the following morning, my eyes were sealed shut with a crust that clamped my eyelashes together. The only way to open my eyes was by forcing them with my fingers. Really nasty stuff.
To make things worse this routine went on for over a month. Every time I slept I had to prise my eyelids apart.

Repeated exposure to hands can dry the skin enough to crack/split the area around the joints. Because of movement these cracks seem to take forever to heal.

Be very wary of this and indeed all solvents. They may seem just like smelly water but they hold hidden horrors for the un-initiated.

Tony
ziggar:
im pretty sure those cubes are actually supposed to be seperated ....

i thought that was the whole idea of that thing was to seperate the cubes so as to make it one of those coffee table talk about thingys that no one supposedly knows how they are done
you know the type, how the hell do you get a cube in a cube in a cube type conversation thing

looks to me half finished

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