Excellent book for fine decorative tips, veneering, precision woodwork & inspiration

Excellent book for fine decorative tips, veneering, precision woodwork & inspiration

I just received this book by a very talented UK fellow, Andrew Crawford and must say that it is excellent and shows some great tips for, as the title suggests, fine decorative things....on ukes or whatever.

Well worth $17 I paid for the inspiration alone.

Get it 2nd hand from ebay, amazon or www.abe.com

1 day left on this one
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Fine-Dec..._Book&hash=item19d8be9c95&_uhb=1#ht_500wt_951

Turns out Andrew Crawford is a performing muso and there are even pics of Ervin Somogyi boxes in the book

excellent inlay tricks with veneer

http://www.fine-boxes.com/

I wonder what kind of glue he uses on those boxes.

Oh, never mind!

Moore Bettah Ukuleles said:

I wonder what kind of glue he uses on those boxes.

Oh, never mind!

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Just trying to open a can of worms are you?

Moore Bettah Ukuleles said:

I wonder what kind of glue he uses on those boxes.

Oh, never mind!

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hahahha- he uses the blood and hooves from the rare Hawaiian unicorn.

He only says "PVA glue"- I think just everyday stuff (EVO was a brand in a pic...never heard of it)

He uses a 10% watered down pva to press his veneers to 1/8" to 3/4" birch ply for the box exterior...then he charges £4,850 pounds for it.....

Chuck- you will like this box of his, titled 'Lava'
http://www.fine-boxes.com/lava441

There is a nicer one in his book called map box where the back veneer is blue and the top veneers which act as visual land masses are Yew burl- bloody beautiful it is- actually it is the 3rd pic in my first post.

I actually got his other book in the mail today "Book of Boxes". Also good.

Interestingly (for some...) he constructs the box, then routs a 1/8" groove to create/separate the lid and body leaving 1/16" of wood which he then cuts with a scalpel for the final separation. Smart as the way i did the 5 times i've made a jewellery box was to fashion each separately. Tis a bugger to get it perfect my (old) way.

Got mine on the way this morning Beau. Thanks for the recommendation.

Allen said:

Got mine on the way this morning Beau. Thanks for the recommendation.

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You shall like it

So far, he has only mentioned superglue once. He must be a master

He also talks of "SSS - Sander Sealer Shellac", which I hadn't heard of but I don't know much about French polishing, yet.

I found this vid of him cutting and registering some 45 miters with his box class. He seems to use the right side of the sanding disk which i thought was a no no.
I like his term at about 37 secs in "under shorten". Also, 3.35 is worth a look for a laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=7ifu4DYqzIE

In another vid he (actually a student) is band sawing the lid off- perhaps he has changed his method since 1998 or, like everyone i've met, teaches different from what he himself does.
more vids
http://www.youtube.com/user/dch888?feature=watch