Ok I'm back,
The music box has a new lid out of old growth redwood. It's a very simple shape (unfortunately the camera is still down-no photos) and it fits the shape, size, and contrasts well with the box. Here's what happened:
I picked up the pieces of the original lid and after deciding that the lid was not reconstructable, I discarded the pieces and went looking for another piece of wood. I found a small piece of white oak and proceeded to turn it to shape. The problem with it was I couldn't get it to spin true on the lathe. It had a terrible wobble to it in spite of my truing it up carefully. I checked everything and the lathe and equipment was working normally so I eventually gave up and set the oak lid aside.
I looked at the pieces of wood I had left and decided to use a piece of some old growth redwood that I've had forever. The wood was a part of a bookshelf that my fiance (now husband) had made of bricks and some redwood boards. The bookshelf and most of the redwood is long gone-I have a couple of pieces left and decided to use one of them.
The redwood turned perfectly. Its very soft wood but it is turnable and without a finish, it's a soft pink color. And since it's been in the family for almost 44 years now it's appropriate that it go to our grandson.
Tomorrow I'm going to do a little more sanding on the box portion and then apply the first of several coats of polyurethane to both pieces.
I'll also go out and see if I can replace the camera battery tomorrow.
So the project is back on and headed for completion.
Stay tuned,
VW
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