Noah B Woodworks

I had an idea this morning on my way to work that might make the cutting of the lid of tessellated box more accurate/straightforward. So the current procedure is to v carve the tessellated pattern, pour the epoxy, sand the epoxy and then re mount the pieces on the CNC to be cut into the rectangles that make up the sides of the box. During that last step, If I CAD in a horizontal break in the tessellation that is a quarter inch wide, then I can use the CNC to create the lid section of the box. Then, during glue up, I can scotch tape the two pieces together so the pattern gets aligned correctly as it’s being glued.

With this method, I’m putting a lot of confidence into the scotch tape to hold things together, as it will also be holding the pieces together as the miters get cut on the table saw. I’m putting a lot of confidence into the CNC as well, for if the re-placement of the workpiece against the fence is off, then the pattern won’t look right. I suppose I can hand plane away any error and the seam will still probably look better than cutting the lid off with a hand saw. I might add a few hundredths of an inch to the router cut so that I have to plane the pieces down, which would further increase the accuracy of the seam.

That adjustment to leave a quarter inch gap for the router bit to cut the lid pieces away from the base pieces happens at the very first step in the whole project, so I’m hoping that I wont forget to try this when I attempt to make the next one. I drew an example of what I’m looking to do in Canva: