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  • This topic has 11 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 7 months ago by Adam Drysdale.
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  • Kevin Bowkett
    20 April 2013 at 11:19 am #11167

    I would class myself as a novice at working wood despite recently making 2 electric guitars on a course with guidance and instruction (Bailey Guitars – in Scotland) . However, without those courses I don’t think I would have ventured towards working wood with hand tools. Those guitars were built with a lot of machinery which I don’t have at home. I wanted to create the same sense of achievement at home and realised building a guitar on my own required better skills and knowledge than I had.

    At the end of last year, I discovered Paul Sellers and the master class site – I’m fascinated to learn about this craft…every Wednesday is a highlight in my week. After seeing the Dovetail Box project, I wanted to build a box. Fortunately, my partner gave the excuse to do it – she loves to spin and ply her own wool but her plying ‘tools’ were make-shift and unusable resulting in several expletives.  So I set myself on a mission to provide a more functional solution….here’s the result.

    Wood is Sapele which I found quite difficult to work with – the grain appears to be irregular and I had trouble with tear out…but it’s finished 🙂

    My partner is more pleased with it than myself but I am proud to have completed it.

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    Dave
    20 April 2013 at 11:30 am #11172

    Kevin, thats an excellent piece of work, its not what I would call a novice attempt 🙂

    -Canada

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    Steve Follis
    20 April 2013 at 2:55 pm #11175

    Nice job Kevin!!  Did you do the inlay work as well?

    Memphis, Tennessee

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    Kevin Bowkett
    20 April 2013 at 3:49 pm #11178

    Did the inlay work myself, but its not as neat as I’d have like and I found it hard working with veneers….more practice is required 🙂

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    Tim457
    20 April 2013 at 5:59 pm #11180

    I can sympathize with always wishing you could do better, but I agree that is certainly not a novice attempt. Very impressive and well done.

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    Serhiy D’yachyshyn
    20 April 2013 at 7:31 pm #11182

    Kevin, it’s very beautiful box))

    Toronto, Canada

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    Mark Armstrong
    20 April 2013 at 9:13 pm #11184

    Nice job love that thin inlay and motif.

    Yep Sapele grain direction can be difficult but thats what make it look beautiful as well.

    Dagenham, Essex, England

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    Kevin Bowkett
    21 April 2013 at 8:05 pm #11208

    Thank you all for your kind comments.

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    dborn
    22 April 2013 at 8:32 pm #11238

    looks great!

    Is sapele the same as mahogony, oor at least what we get when we go to but mahogony?

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    Dave
    22 April 2013 at 9:52 pm #11243

    Dan, I think Sepele is a type of mahogany,  there are many types of mahogany from different parts of the world I gather.  Some endangered some not.  Where I live Sepele is actually cheaper than walnut or cherry, something I don’t understand because cherry and walnut are local tree species.

    -Canada

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    Eddy Flynn
    22 April 2013 at 10:25 pm #11244

    Kevin if this is your first hand tool project look out the rest of us this is fantastic

    Eddy .. Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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    Adam Drysdale
    5 June 2013 at 4:09 pm #13068

    Hell’s teeth! That’s impressive. You certainly don’t appear to be a novice!

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