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Jim Shaver - Oakville, Ontario

>Hi Frank,

I have always enjoying viewing your work and feel lucky to have seen one of your previous humidors in person on my visit two years ago.

This one is exceptional, I love the woods you chose and the handle design is very nice, the magnet catches are a great idea.

This one says Craftsmanship all over it.

Take care,

Jim

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Stephen Shepherd in the State of Deseret

>Now fill up that bad boy with some fine Cubans and we are talking top drawer!

Great work.

Stephen

Very sweet

Jim in Burlington On

>Stellar lumber choice for sure.

What veneering process?

Tom Colligan

>Great work, Frank. What method did you use to apply the veneer? Tia, Tom.

Re: What veneering process?

Frank D. in Montreal

>Hi Tom,

Thanks. I followed Krenov's method of shop cut veneer (cut at around 3/32", finished at around 1/16" after glue up and smoothing) glued with yellow glue and clamped at least 24 hrs. I've made a few other pieces with this technique and never had any problems, but the bubinga on this one had a mind of its own, and developed a few cracks before I had a chance to finish it. I'm going to try hide glue on my next few veneering projects, just to see if the veneer is more stable since hide glue isn't supposed to creep at all.

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Frank D. in Montreal

>Like these ones? hehe (sorry if I'm being silly, I can't help it...)

That does it, I'm moving to Canada :-(

Ellis Walentine

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Stephen Shepherd in the State of Deseret

>How much do one of those boxes of humidor fillers cost?

Stephen

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Frank D. in Montreal

>Actually Stephen I get them quite cheap. I have family in Andorra (a small country between Spain and France), and there are no taxes on tobacco there, so I fill up whenever I go to visit. They are cheaper than in Cuba, anywhere from $2 to $12 a cigar (hand-made ones, of course). What you see there lasts me about 2 years.

Thanks everyone

Frank D. in Montreal

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Outrageous figure on the bubinga

Wiley Horne--So. Cal.

>Frank! How does it plane?

Wiley

Re: What veneering process?

Norman (Metcalfe, Ont.)

>Wow, no shortage of Bessey clamps in that photo...

Nice work Frank, great choice of veneers, and they really pop!

Are the Credo's still as expensive as they used to be?

I still have a couple of gold ones here, and a few hockey puck models.

I have a Cuban friend here in Ottawa, ex-Cuban fighter pilot

who defected.. I ask him to bring me back a box of Cohibas, etc.

whenever he gets back there. He's allowed to travel there now :)

Norman

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Frank D. in Montreal

>Hi Wuiley,

It doesn't really plane at all, at least not for me. I set one of by BU planes to a 60� pitch, and got minimal tearout, but the plane was so hard to push, it skipped and I had trouble controlling it (or the thin veneer occasionally took off like a rocket). That's when I grabbed my scraper plane. What a difference! No tearout as all (smooth as a baby's bottom), nice fluffy shavings, and the scraper plane was very easy to push and control. I must say that I've always preferred using my 112 to a very high pitch on a plane.

What the hey?? No Cigars. Got to find

vlparisian - Houston

>some nice Cuban cigars for that.

Victor - in Hot and Humid Houston

ps, Lovely, very nice job.

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Frank D. in Montreal

>Thanks Norman. The Credos are still the most expensive, but I like them a lot. The one in this humidor goes for $105 CDN (plus tax). A little pricey, but still cheaper than the two hockey pucks I put in another one.

Your Cuban friend reminds me of the pilot named Raul in Green's novel "Our Man In Havanna". :)

That's one fine humidor!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>You done yourself proud! It look fantastic. I realy like the handles, and envy the cubans!

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Stephen Shepherd in the State of Deseret

>On your next visit would you mind picking me up a box, I think they are pretty, just the empty box , nod nod wink wink. Hundred dollars cover it?

Stephen

Re: What veneering process?

ThomD

>Really nice piece of work Frank! Cigars huh, no wonder there is a limit on what you will spend for a decent chisel!

The Krenov method involved making the "real" veneer, and then gluing it to a substrate of real wood, presumably something that has similar R&D to the veneer. It should be a problem (notwithstanding absence thereof :)) to glue fat veneer to plywood.

A good glue for your process might be epoxy, like WEST. Good open time in the slow, doesn't add moisture to your wood like hide or yellow, very creep resistant.