the new on hmmm hi i gotta really neat little project to dotoday this is really simple it you can get it done inabout an hour i'll use a drill press
woodworking bench for sale canada, i read about this in the september 2007 issue of american wwoodworker and since that a lot of people in writingand in coming up with enhancement but this is the basic cube within a cube
and its sort of a puzzle it lookslike there's a cube in there any wonder how to get in there becausethere's no way for it to come out, so it's just i don't know what it is but ta lot of fun with so there is a closer look at what this is is just a solid chunk of wood i thinkthis is 3 inches by 3 inches square and inside is a floating cube of course there is no way to get that outtathere and i dont know its a kind of a conversation piece and if you have it sitting around people will pick it up
and can of wonder how you did it! oneof the things to do about this is get solid chunk of wood you really dont want a laminated wood to make it otherwise people will see those lines together and assume that well you just put together and glued all up part at the interesting parts to usesolid block away so got a piece of wood square and wehave started okay the first thing you want to do is find the centerpoint on just one of the sides
and gotta be really preciseabout it cuz you really want to get as close to that center as you can and just draw a line like so now i got the center spot next you wanna put just a little x in one corner of each side so when you put itinto the drill press you can make sure you were positioned the exactsame location each time next you wanna headover to your drill press set the speed of your drill press at theslowest speed
install a forstner bit in this casei'm using a two-inch forstner bit to make the whole on 3 inch blockbut depending on size of your wood you can use whatever you want, set up a stop block on a fence if you dont have a fence on your drill press you just clamp down a board anythingall work the stop block will never changethroughout the whole procedure so when you get back clampdown you find the exact centerpoint when they drop the drill press down
it will go right to the center so that's thebasic setup so this first cut just kind fo eye balling it about a 67 looks like it there one thing i'd to be aware his i set my "x" in this location up so every time i cut a piece i'm gonna makesure the x is on the left side it's kinda arbitrary
go anyplace you want but you just wantto make sure that you have that same position each time you know just in case yourblock isn't exactly square take a square and draw a line from oneof these diagonal lines that you made previously to where it intersect that circle so well like that underline that's going to mean indicator of how deep to make the firstcut now at that line drawn
i can use that as a guide to set up mydrill press and you can just line it up visuallyalong the side there and you want your bit to come down about 0,16 of an inch higher than that line you don't wanna go any deeper than thatyou know for fear that it would cut all the way through thecube so enter our way down from there setup a stop on your press where itstopped a sixteenth inch above-the-line now that i've got thatdepth set i can make my first cut and i'mgonna position
the x again in that same left position and you want to start with the end grainbecause it's tougther to get through and it could chip out if you do thatlast so just start in all down way around each side all making surethat the x is in the same location also make sure you lookclean out any shaving might be in this area so that sitproper well the face grain is definitely a loteasier to get through than the end grain
and with that final face cut you canstart to see the cube inside so now it's just a matter ofgetting closer and closer to where it is about ready to release andwith all six bases cut over, i lower at the bit about a 0.32 of an inch and i'lljust inch my way around each side and if youcan see that it's a almost ready to release so i'll take it down about a 30 secondhalf an inch
the next time you just want to becareful you don't wanna go all the way through or this'll justbreakout splinter now that i've got that down to right about it is ready to release from the word i'm just gonna take asharp knife and cutaway the remainder try to go with the grain when you makethis cut and you feel it release and with final cut the cube is released and there's no realeasy way of sanding it all down
sand paper combination now wraps for eventually you will get it done there you go the only other thing leftto do would be to finish it and if a can find my original this one that i a made and i used and oil finish on this i i just rube oil all over it i it's really not practical to put polyurethane lacquer or anything else on their i would alsorecommend
not painting it because its i think part ofthe charm others to do you see the grain would painted it it was just cover thatup and loose some of the mistery on how it was made so in a way that i can make a cube whitin a cube, and you can get it done in a half hour i hope you give it a shot if you do so, send my an email or put your own video it would fun to see other versions of it i've seen some that have cube winthin a cube whitin a cube and a havenâ´t been bold enough to try that one so anyways good lucky and thanksfor watching