Well I am back. Its been a long run but had a bit of a life change spent some time deployed and missed the entire summer of sailing and lots of paper jet 14 up dates are on the way. First this little jewlery box another heritage project. Above the walnut and cedar for the box.

All dado's are in and everthing is to legth. Why blue painters tape? That is all drawer material all get cross grain dado's and it prevents chip out and if it does it come off when you take the tape off and just glue it back in and that is how you can easily hide any sin.

Book match top was split in half with thin table saw blade, the olive cross precisely fit then glued back together with pins to keep it from ever warping because of its size.

Remember the blue tape well all work is done and as always it was the perfect trick for the need no chip outs at all and no need to hide any sin.

All cedar is cut and ready for drawer assembly

The asembly went well and well on the way to a finish project!

Looks good could be better had some mistakes here and ther yet I believe over all it went well.

Final top outcome. I did cheat a little the original size was over size both in leagth and in width. This helps with any error on the centering of that cross. The scrap from the width was perfect for the feet on the bottom of the case.

Here is the internal view. Popular runners make it a easy go for any adjustments in expansion and contraction of the seasons.

Ohh the finish. Its a new one to me from Dept. To volatile and really sets fast to fast in fact. I used a 2'' precision horse hair bursh and tried my best to keep up with it and still failed every time. Persistance paid off once you start a finish you finish with the finish cant go back unless you want to sand the entire thing down.

The new finish does have a nice shine!

The result of many days trying to deal with that crazy finish. Infact it took me two solid weeks to get this top to come out like this. Still spent plenty of time polishing it off.

Final project just in time for a special valentine.

The start of a jewlery box. Main wood is Lypticus good to work with a lot like Mhogany but a little more rare cut list all done here.

More goods to go with.

Close up of datos,tendons, and mortises.

Solid Olive Cross being set into Walnut.

Top is all done that is Cherry in sets.

Some bockets joints just a little cheating here and there most of the box is good solid morise joints.

Cherry insets here also.

Here is the final product all drawers ride on Popular guides all soid Popular guts and turned out really nice (heavy) but very nice. Weight is the only thing I need to figure out to cut out, this is ok considering the nature of the project.

Cherry insets turned out nice it was a bit of a challenge to mask it all off when I applied stain to the Lypticus (I bought the Lypticus mail order ended up with a mix of white to almost a dark pink wood color that I did not care for so had to find a way to cover that sin a bit. No more mail order lumber!!!

This the the back.

The final product of the cross and Walnut set inside of the bottom of the lid and red felt (not a easy thing to fit inside of the box either) but turned out nice with much persistance

Mast fracture issues

Well i managed to do it again got these in the wrong order. The mast has a small fracture that looked really big under the split glass. Just above the hole that connects the mast to the deck/ mast step. The official repair included sanding all glass off mixing epoxy and wood flower to mustard consistency, then forcing that into the fracture. Finally took enough glass material to make two raps of glass rather than just one. I also took the adventure of laying plastic food rap down on scrap ply wood taped it down, then wet out the glass, a thin layer of epoxy on mast then grabbed two corners of glass letting it hit just one side of mast, then used the weight of the glass to make sure it raped tight. The final product was much stronger but the glass job is more apparent to the eye than just one layer. I am having problems with my entire mast having small fractures where the scarf joints are. I am going to do a rebuild of mast this winter and have some ideas to make it stronger.

Here is what it looked like before sanding.

All kind of good stuff here

I always get these things posted back wards some how here we go. Little details help in identifying star board and port side line work. West marine had two different collors of locking units when I went to make my lines I chose to run two different collors to make sure the lines get put on the correct side. Silver is star board dark is port side. This also helps yet know it will get wore out. Started with a bow line not at top and tied half knots for a grand total of six inches of length then ran that same line back up (with out cutting it) raping a single cord between the half knots keeping them all tight finally finished off with a bow line knot. This is only done on the aft lines to help protect from damage to the boom when it rides against down wind.

Jib foot fold 5/16'' x 24' line in half then back through.

The tie in at the bow.

Here she is all lined up and ready to go think spring and water is still cold. I had a grand total of four good runs on this rig because of my lack of experience and weight I have a real hard time keeping all that sail up.

Note the bend in the mast!!!

Trial run line to jib is to small but the pull out for the roller is all good.

Star board side tied in ready to go.

Second shot of star board side ready to go.

Port side in good detail ready to go.

Second shot of Port side ready to go.

A great shot of detail of tie up start with bow line on shackel make 6 or so raps the then half knot each rap working from the bottom to the top. Turn out nice expect to do regular replacement of lines.

NEW UPDATES! TAKE DOWN HAUL NOTES NOW!

This ended up being the best solution to a down haul need and it works extremely well. It is a 16inch line of 5/32 line folded in half then sliped it over the boom. Set my sail on floor right above boom sliped folded line over boom measured out the need to go around boom made a secure knot and the rest is history. The pics tell the rest.

Here the folded line goes through the clew and then knot is brought back up through the loop.

Knot is through the loop.

The finish

To complete the tie off is a simple loose half knot.

So much to share, so much sailing to do

Many ups and downs these days. So much going on just no time to post, and lot of pics and new stuff comming. I have ha the standard rig (jib and main) up and going for a while now. My first time out by my self it really took me for a ride and ended up fracturing the mast. Lesson from that was that the first glass job I did was not strong enough and that I drilled the pin hole wrong it should of been through the popular staves not the cedar staves. It was the cedar stave on the sail track that fractrured just to much down pressure. Easy fix sand old fiberglass off put down new the second was much better than first try. The first time I did my typical glass install wet out work with epoxy lay glass down then fill any dry areas. The second time i switched to laying out glass on clear plastic food rap taped down to scrap ply wood carefully rolled out epoxy with squeegee wetting glass out then light coat of epoxy on mast the the glass hit one side using the glass weight as its own raping power and did two raps. This truned out to be a beautiful job that holds out to be much stronger. Much more to come!!