Project Information
I must confess these small boxes are not of my design. They are infact a direct translation from Doug Stowes book, Making basic boxes.
They measure 3" x 3" the lid being 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" with box walls 3/8" thick while the lids are 3/4" thick. The lids have a rebate creating a small 1/8" deep lip which fits snugly into the aperture of the box opening to ensure a friction fit as can be seen in photo 6.
The woods used include, Splated Beech, English oak, Birch, Walnut, Yew some sort of Mahogany and Acacia.
This Christmas we are having Christmas dinner at my parents house with my parents and my sister and her family. My wife likes to orchestrates after dinner party trivia games. I thought I would include my own game this year with the boxes handed out as prizes. I thought I would individually bag up some of the planes shavings from the boxes and a little Stick of the wood and ask the family to name the wood from the shavings and the little piece of wood. Each correct answer will win a box.
Of course everyone will win a box, I have them lined up for each individual, of course they don't know that. E.g. The box with the marble effect lid (spalted beech) is for my wife. The white lid (Birch) is a little bland so I introduced some Acacia in the form of a cross the represent the Cross of St George flag (English fnational flag) for my English brother in Law.
It was the first time I got to use my relatively new table saw spline slitting jig as listed here in projects some time ago. It worked very well, I must say.
I also made up a small jig for cutting the mitred splines, again taken from Doug Stowes book.
A fairly straight forward build process all in all except for a small mishap when routing the rebate on the bottom of the lids, the router tore off a chunk from the lid of spalted beech. I suspect the wood had just decayed a little too much at that point. Unfortunately for me it was the only interesting piece I had left and of course it was for my wife's box.
Scarfing a new piece to a corner is always a tad fiddly when working with small parts. I decided to clamp the remains of the lid to the bench, screw a baton parallel to the break line then used wedges to clamp the donor piece against the baton. The repair turned out well, particularly as the repair patch is a different species of wood, although it blends nicely with the spalting in the Beech.
The repair is to the top left hand corner, difficult to see even on close inspection.
I just need to,wrap them now.
Thanks for reading.
They measure 3" x 3" the lid being 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" with box walls 3/8" thick while the lids are 3/4" thick. The lids have a rebate creating a small 1/8" deep lip which fits snugly into the aperture of the box opening to ensure a friction fit as can be seen in photo 6.
The woods used include, Splated Beech, English oak, Birch, Walnut, Yew some sort of Mahogany and Acacia.
This Christmas we are having Christmas dinner at my parents house with my parents and my sister and her family. My wife likes to orchestrates after dinner party trivia games. I thought I would include my own game this year with the boxes handed out as prizes. I thought I would individually bag up some of the planes shavings from the boxes and a little Stick of the wood and ask the family to name the wood from the shavings and the little piece of wood. Each correct answer will win a box.
Of course everyone will win a box, I have them lined up for each individual, of course they don't know that. E.g. The box with the marble effect lid (spalted beech) is for my wife. The white lid (Birch) is a little bland so I introduced some Acacia in the form of a cross the represent the Cross of St George flag (English fnational flag) for my English brother in Law.
It was the first time I got to use my relatively new table saw spline slitting jig as listed here in projects some time ago. It worked very well, I must say.
I also made up a small jig for cutting the mitred splines, again taken from Doug Stowes book.
A fairly straight forward build process all in all except for a small mishap when routing the rebate on the bottom of the lids, the router tore off a chunk from the lid of spalted beech. I suspect the wood had just decayed a little too much at that point. Unfortunately for me it was the only interesting piece I had left and of course it was for my wife's box.
Scarfing a new piece to a corner is always a tad fiddly when working with small parts. I decided to clamp the remains of the lid to the bench, screw a baton parallel to the break line then used wedges to clamp the donor piece against the baton. The repair turned out well, particularly as the repair patch is a different species of wood, although it blends nicely with the spalting in the Beech.
The repair is to the top left hand corner, difficult to see even on close inspection.
I just need to,wrap them now.
Thanks for reading.