August Presentation

At the August meeting, Vernon Blackadar from the Tampa Woodworking Club was gracious enough to bring tools and demonstrate several box-making techniques he uses in making the astounding boxes he's known for.

Examples of Vernon's work.	Examples of Vernon's work.	Examples of Vernon's work.
Vernon describing the Incra-jig he uses to cut the "finger" joints that join his boxes.	Vernon making the first cut for the finger joints.	Close-up of the router cutting the spaces between the "fingers".
Notice that Vernon is cutting the fingers for all 4 sides of the box in a single pass.	The assembled box!	Vernon also demonstrated how he cuts mortises for quadrant hinges. Here he is marking the position of the hinges.
Vernon assembling the jig he uses to cut the mortises.	The jig assembled and in place.	Vernon cutting the mortise for one of the quadrant hinges.