The First Official Completed Project

Here is the first official, non-shop related completed project. It is a candy dispenser I made for my mother as a Mother's Day present.

The dispenser is made from cherry and finished with Arm-R-Seal, which is a mixture of tung oil and urethane which was wiped on. The mason jar, which holds the candy, is held in place by its lid, which is attached to the body of the dispenser with a couple of brads and some CA glue.

In retrospect, I think the jar itself is too large for the body, but as I made the boneheaded mistake of cutting my stock before I bought and measured the mason jars that I had purchased, I found that the jars I bought had a smaller opening than the jars that were used to create the drawings. The only other jars that I could find that had an opening of the size that I had created were these huge two-quart jars.

Posted by Rob at July 6, 2003 2:57 PM