Start of Dice Towers

After the holiday break I figured it was time to get back in the shop and finish this table!

I started by adding dimension to my Sketchup model:

I found a piece of highly figured sapele at Saroyan a few months ago, and held onto it with any particular project in mind, but this one fits the bill! First up was cutting it down to rough size (and got to put the other half back on the wood rack for the future):

After jointing and planing I ripped it to rough width, with a big 45° angle on the top edge:

After some miter cuts I have an actual tower:

Gluing these up is made easy with the Blue Tape Trick to hold the miters tight while the glue sets (no glue yet, just a rough fit to make sure everything is square:

I pulled some scrap ebony off the rack to make the little tumblers that the dice fall on to help shuffle them:

The last job of the day was to glue a back to the base that actually gets attached to the table. The back is only 1/2” thick so I clamped it to some right angle blocks to make sure it set at 90°:

Tomorrow I’ll start gluing up everything else and installing hinges.