[email protected] (J T) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> http://www.lowes.com/lkn?action=howTo&p=Build/TissueBox.html&rn=RightNavFiles/rightNavLumber%20
>
> JOAT
>
> We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience.
> - Nanny Ogg
Darn! I should have patented that thing when I had a chance.
I maded one of these a couple years ago for SWMBO at Xmas, although
mine was made of walnut and maple rather than ply. It was my first
"real" wood project, complete with finger joints. Of the many things
I learned, don't put a penetrating (Danish) oil finish on the inside;
it penetrates the tissue box and you'll be reminded of it every time
you go to blow your nose. That took about a year to go away.
Tue, Jul 13, 2004, 11:58am (EDT-3) [email protected] (Ian=A0Dodd)
says:
<snip> That took about a year to go away.
Would that be the oil, or the blowing of the nose?
LMAO
JOAT
We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience.
- Nanny Ogg
[email protected] (J T) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Tue, Jul 13, 2004, 11:58am (EDT-3) [email protected] (Ian Dodd)
> says:
> <snip> That took about a year to go away.
>
> Would that be the oil, or the blowing of the nose?
>
> LMAO
>
> JOAT
Ah, you caught me being unclear. In this case, I meant the aroma of
the Danish oil that had permeated the tissues. Fortunately, the
blowing of the nose will never go away or else the market for my
(unpatented) tissue box cover will go with it.
Glad you could LYAO,
Ian
If you make sawdust your runny nose will be with you for eons.
Shellac would have sealed the inside of the box. I made a built-in
unit with Baltic Birch drawers for wife and after several days heard a
comment about undies smelling like wood so a wipe on coatd of shellac
and no more odor. To be on the safe side the outsides of the drawers
were shellaced as well as they were inside an enclosure. The BB
drawers that is.
On 13 Jul 2004 20:31:44 -0700, [email protected] (Ian Dodd) wrote:
>[email protected] (J T) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>> Tue, Jul 13, 2004, 11:58am (EDT-3) [email protected] (Ian Dodd)
>> says:
>> <snip> That took about a year to go away.
>>
>> Would that be the oil, or the blowing of the nose?
>>
>> LMAO
>>
>> JOAT
>
>Ah, you caught me being unclear. In this case, I meant the aroma of
>the Danish oil that had permeated the tissues. Fortunately, the
>blowing of the nose will never go away or else the market for my
>(unpatented) tissue box cover will go with it.
>
>Glad you could LYAO,
>
>Ian
Wed, Jul 14, 2004, 8:49am [email protected]
<snip> undies smelling like wood <snip>
Might have gotten some cedar, bandsawed into a heart shape, and put
in with the undies.
JOAT
We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience.
- Nanny Ogg
J T wrote:
> Wed, Jul 14, 2004, 8:49am [email protected]
> <snip> undies smelling like wood <snip>
>
> Might have gotten some cedar, bandsawed into a heart shape, and put
> in with the undies.
Or simpy explained her that you were applying sympathetic magic, wherein the
bouquet of wood led to encouragement of another kind of wood. If she
shellacked you for that one then you could shellac the cabinet drawers.
> JOAT
>
> We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience.
> - Nanny Ogg
--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
About 10 years ago, I designed a wooden box to hold the Kleenex box.
Had a sliding bottom so the Kleenex box stayed inside when you picked
it up. Finger joints and fine woods. Spent days making a dozen of
them for Christmas presents for the family. Just a few months later,
Kleenex made their box bigger.
DonkeyHody
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom
that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down
on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid
again---and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold
one anymore." - Mark Twain
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Thu, Jul 15, 2004, 5:12pm (EDT-3) [email protected] (DonkeyHody)
<snip> Just a few months later, Kleenex made their box bigger.
It's the thought that counts. LOL They'd come in handy to keep
rubber bands in.
JOAT
We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience.
- Nanny Ogg
DonkeyHody notes:
>About 10 years ago, I designed a wooden box to hold the Kleenex box.
>Had a sliding bottom so the Kleenex box stayed inside when you picked
>it up. Finger joints and fine woods. Spent days making a dozen of
>them for Christmas presents for the family. Just a few months later,
>Kleenex made their box bigger.
Wasn't that nice of them? Easy modification for you and ready to make presents
for the next Christmas, no heavy thinking about needs involved.
Probably by this time, they've got 5-6 different sizes, so you'd have to know
what package your friends and family prefer.
Charlie Self
"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose." Dwight
D. Eisenhower