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The box is beautiful. thank you for the post on how you built it. I've been struggling with miter joints with my boxes and your shooting board gave me some great ideas.
 

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A beautiful combination of woods!
 

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Very nice box. I liked your technique for cutting the miters. Your shooting board looks very elegant as well. Most of my shop jigs are made from scrap wood salvaged from the to burn pile. This shooting board has some nice looking wood in it!!
 

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Nicely done. Really nice use of the wood.
Roger
 

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Very nice, I love the wood!

Thanks for sharing!

Chris
 

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Really like the flame on the lid! Nice book matching!
 

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Very pretty!!! I love the "Angel Wings" on the top!!!
 

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beautiful piece. I have a dozen olive logs, 6" x 18" & you have inspired me to mill one this week for a small box.
 

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Hi Derek, I hope I can ask you a question all this time after you posted the project.

According to the pictures, you groove the sides after mitering them. Makes sense to me so you avoid tearing out the grooves while planing on the donkey's ear.

How do you hold the mitered sides for ploughing the grooves without bruising the sharp ends of the miters?

Gorgeous box, by the way. I hope it has help up well since you posted this.
 

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How do you hold the mitered sides for ploughing the grooves without bruising the sharp ends of the miters?

You could do them the quick-and-easy way, as I did … use the table saw.

An alternative would be to do the grooves first with a plough plane, then mitre. Here is a jig I build for ploughing small pieces …

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/AdjustableStickingBoard.html

Usually the sides come from a longer board and then it makes sense to plough the entire length, and after this saw to lengths. The pieces I had were short and I did not have a way of holding them at the time to plough a groove.

Regards from Perth

Derek
 

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The combination of the glorious grain in your box is arresting to say the least.
 
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