Project Information
We've got some neighbors who have been helpful since we bought our new place in New Mexico. Now that my shop is mostly functional, I wanted to do something nice for them, and figured I'd give them a bottle of wine in a nice handmade gift box.
The box is elm left over from building my low workbench, and had some spalting in it. I resawed it to get grain wrap all the way around the box and mitered the corners, reinforcing them with hand-cut dovetail butternut splines The lid is cherry and butternut I built into a herringbone pattern.
The box is finished with BLO, a few coats of super-blonde shellac, and a coat of paste wax.
Lots of mistakes that I see, and I really should have sanded better before finishing, but I was running out of patience and thickness in the elm. It's down to 3/16" thick in many places, which doesn't leave much thickness for the groove for the lid.
The box is elm left over from building my low workbench, and had some spalting in it. I resawed it to get grain wrap all the way around the box and mitered the corners, reinforcing them with hand-cut dovetail butternut splines The lid is cherry and butternut I built into a herringbone pattern.
The box is finished with BLO, a few coats of super-blonde shellac, and a coat of paste wax.
Lots of mistakes that I see, and I really should have sanded better before finishing, but I was running out of patience and thickness in the elm. It's down to 3/16" thick in many places, which doesn't leave much thickness for the groove for the lid.
Continue with Google
