![]() 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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