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I recently made my first bandsaw box for my son's birthday. It was such a hit with the family that I decided to do another one for my Mother-in-Law's birthday. We had a birthday party for her this past Saturday and she loved it so I'll consider it successful ;-)
The design of the box is nothing new. In fact, I almost didn't do this style because it has been done so many times. However, as pointed out by a friend of mine, even though I may have seen a dozen different examples, my MIL has never seen anything like it. So, it was unique to her and it was a pretty simple build so that was good enough.
The stock is Cherry. I have some 4×4 stock so I glued 2 pieces together and squared everything up. Final dimensions are about 14" tall x 3-3/4"deep x 7" wide. For the pulls, I had a scrap piece of Bolivian Rosewood that was about 3/8" square. I put it on the lathe and just turned knobs by eye that looked to be about the right size and all roughly the same shape. The drawers are flocked with wine colored flocking.
I learned a lot with the first box I made and learned another important lesson with this one… Don't glue the kerfs back together after cutting the drawers out! Why? Because the back has been resawed off. If you glue the kerfs closed, the back doesn't fit on right. Not a big problem but it did add a little extra work and made the glue line more visible than I would have liked.
All-in-all this was a pretty simple and fun build. It was definitely well received and will be used without a doubt. Thanks for looking! Comments and criticisms welcome as always.
The design of the box is nothing new. In fact, I almost didn't do this style because it has been done so many times. However, as pointed out by a friend of mine, even though I may have seen a dozen different examples, my MIL has never seen anything like it. So, it was unique to her and it was a pretty simple build so that was good enough.
The stock is Cherry. I have some 4×4 stock so I glued 2 pieces together and squared everything up. Final dimensions are about 14" tall x 3-3/4"deep x 7" wide. For the pulls, I had a scrap piece of Bolivian Rosewood that was about 3/8" square. I put it on the lathe and just turned knobs by eye that looked to be about the right size and all roughly the same shape. The drawers are flocked with wine colored flocking.
I learned a lot with the first box I made and learned another important lesson with this one… Don't glue the kerfs back together after cutting the drawers out! Why? Because the back has been resawed off. If you glue the kerfs closed, the back doesn't fit on right. Not a big problem but it did add a little extra work and made the glue line more visible than I would have liked.
All-in-all this was a pretty simple and fun build. It was definitely well received and will be used without a doubt. Thanks for looking! Comments and criticisms welcome as always.
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