Project by Richard B | posted 03-22-2012 01:54 AM | 2508 views | 1 time favorited | 15 comments | ![]() |
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This box was made from clear pine (the sides) regular quality pine (the top) and some luann plywood for the bottom.
The sides are dovetailed, as you can see. The bottom sits in a groove that I created using my new handmade plow/groove planes. The top is a simple pine board rabbited on 4 sides.
The finish is blonde shellac (1.5 pound cut, x 5 coats) with every other coat gently buffed with 0000 steel wool. Lastly I rubbed 1 coat of wax on it as a last step.
-- Richard B, Birmingham Alabama
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Martyroc
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#1 posted 03-22-2012 02:11 AM
Nice box, this look like hand cut dovetails, very nice.
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#2 posted 03-22-2012 05:55 AM
Very clean workmaship Richard!
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ratchet
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#3 posted 03-22-2012 12:07 PM
Very nice Richard. I really do favor the functionally clean lines of it. Sort of reminds me of those nice Japanese tool boxes. Well done.
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#4 posted 03-22-2012 12:50 PM
Are those hand cut dovetails? very nice box!
RogerBean
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#5 posted 03-22-2012 01:38 PM
Nicely done. Pine is surely underrated. It deserves more respect than it gets. And, your use of dovetails here is the perfect complement to the pine. Dovetails on a box are often out of place, or overkill, or just unnecessary, but here you’ve made them work beautifully… and with fine craftsmanship.
Roger
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vakman
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#6 posted 03-22-2012 09:48 PM
Excellent work! Did you size this so that the sides and top are based on dimensional lumber? e.g. 1×6s for the sides and 1×8 for the top?
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#7 posted 03-22-2012 09:50 PM
Well done.
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#8 posted 03-22-2012 10:05 PM
Nice looking joinery
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Richard B
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#9 posted 03-22-2012 10:43 PM
@vakman:
It was sized to fit my workbench. I have a split top bench with a ~6 inch gap between the tops. These boxes fit between the bench tops and their height is set to be flush to the benchtop(with the box top removed). The length of the project needed to be either 1/3 or 1/4 or 1/5 the length of my bench. Aesthetically and functionally I liked the size of these, which are about 1/4 the length of the bench.
I demension my lumber by hand, so whenever I can I try to find materials close to or at the finished thickness. In this case the sides are 5/8 or 6/8 thick. All this material came from the home depot down the street.
-- Richard B, Birmingham Alabama
lysdexic
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#10 posted 03-23-2012 03:42 AM
Richard,
That is a clean, simple, well executed design. How did you execute the rabbets for the top?
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#11 posted 03-23-2012 04:56 AM
Great Box, Richard! I really like the lid.
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Richard B
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#12 posted 03-23-2012 05:59 AM
@ lysdexic:
The rabbets were done mainly using a shoulder plane. I have a router plane and attempted to use it first but found it harder to control and so I switched to a shoulder plane, which worked very well. I scribed the width of the rabbets with a marking gauge, then began passing over it with the shoulder plane. After the first one I added a spare board to act as a fence, which speeded up the first 1 mm or so of the rabbet depth. After the first mm or so I removed the fence and guided the plane freehand.
For the last rabbet I tried a different approach: I crosscut the margin of the rabbet with a backsaw then chiseled out 90 percent of the waste and cleaned it up with the shoulder plane. That was probably the fastest if the several methods I attempted.
-- Richard B, Birmingham Alabama
lysdexic
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#13 posted 03-23-2012 10:46 AM
Cool.,I just wondered if you had a moving fillister.
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#14 posted 03-23-2012 06:24 PM
It came out very nice. Pine can look great if it’s treated right as you have done here.
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#15 posted 03-29-2012 03:50 AM
Nice straight forward simple design. I like it.
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