Broken heart

Beautiful box Ken. Can you share how you connected the bottom to the sides? Also, how thick is your top?

Best,

-- Jim

Verynice box. Great design.

Keep it up.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

Good selection of woods; the name will always have significance and will always be beautiful and useful.

-- Rick, Tennessee, John 3:16

Wood looks awesome, like the heart.

-- Z, Rockwall, TX

Jim,

The bottom is let into a dado that was plowed before the box was assembled. The top is about 8mm thick (5/16”) and turns on brass pins that project into the sides. Everything gets machined and then the whole mess goes together at once, so it’s important to dry fit everything first.

Sky and Zlatanv,

I love the ebony. The crack in this heart was a surprise because it didn’t show before I started to shape the wood. Sometimes you just get lucky!

I agree, the crack in the heart turned out to be a nice detail.

-- ~Jason~ , Albuquerque NM

beautiful grain and such a cool box

-- Wood and Glass they kick (well you know) Have a great day - Dug

Yup – nice stuff & cool heart design.

-- Before you louse it up, THIMK!

Very nice. Lovely grain with a sentimental heart.

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford. Wood-a-holics unanimous president