Project Information
While working on my box for the box swap I kept having bottles of glue in the way. Once I shipped off the box, I started to clean up my workbench, and discovered over ten bottles of glue, plus a couple bottles of dye and other liquids that really need to be corralled into a single place. So I built a glue caddy.
I started by mitering the corners in some half-inch poplar, using my miter jack and glued the sides onto the bottom (another piece of poplar I had resawed to 3/8" last summer) . Then I cut some dovetailed splines. I cut the splines themselves out of a scrap piece of walnut, then cut the slots for them to match. Glued them in, and started building an insert to separate the various glue bottles and keep them from tipping over. Sawed the splines off flush, broke all the edges with a block-plane, then finished it with a coat of BLO, two coats of platina shellac, and a coat of orange shellac.
Should do the job, and it looks pretty good, I think.
I started by mitering the corners in some half-inch poplar, using my miter jack and glued the sides onto the bottom (another piece of poplar I had resawed to 3/8" last summer) . Then I cut some dovetailed splines. I cut the splines themselves out of a scrap piece of walnut, then cut the slots for them to match. Glued them in, and started building an insert to separate the various glue bottles and keep them from tipping over. Sawed the splines off flush, broke all the edges with a block-plane, then finished it with a coat of BLO, two coats of platina shellac, and a coat of orange shellac.
Should do the job, and it looks pretty good, I think.
