First, plane a sawn teak board ........ (it's hard!)




Do the hard bit first. Three squares were glued together with their grain at right-angles, chucked up on the lathe, and the bezel was cut out It looks fantastic now its cleaned up. I selected the worst pieces for this since I wanted the grain as wild as possible
The cat supervised as I cut the carcass pieces. These were rebated so that the corner joints would not show when assembled and so that no joint would be seen at either top or bottom. Here it is being glued up. The bits inside are to ensure that the balls actually fall into the box and not down the side of the drawer
The mouldings around the top were then cut and fitted Finally, a plinth was made for the whole assembly to sit upon
It was hard work and the oilstone was in constant use. (Teak really is very tough stuff). I think it was worth it in the end though.
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