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This my my entry in the 2018 box swap. This one went to LJ. Tomgrin. When I first signed up I had a really hard time thinking of a new design for a swap box. I began to think back on the boxes that have been my most favorite and best sellers. First was my keepsake chest: This was an original...

Here is the box I created for EarlS and sounds like more so Earl's family. It is quarter sawn sycamore and walnut. I created the contrasting checkered pattern on the corners by laminating the two types of wood together before cutting the box joints. I had seen a box in this style before and I...

I really had fun with this. Luckily, I didn't screw it up too bad. I made video of how I did it. A typical lousy hairy video. It starts out slow, but stick with it. It's a little over 3 minutes of your life that you will want back. Maybe someday I'll get it right. I didn't have an old plane to...

This is a box made for the 2018 box swap in something of a hurry. It looked like hairy wasn't going to get a box out of the swap, so I enlisted JeffsWildWood and KelleyCrafts to each send a little something, and I started building a box. Wednesday night after dinner, I headed out to the shop...

The box swap was almost over. Reveal day was less then a week away and Dave let me know one swapper, Hairy, was not going to get a box and asked for my help. I told him I have a box I started a bit back and would finish it, in one day! Wow, I really put a challenge on myself. But I went to work...

This was my first LJ swap so I was a bit nervous, wondering what I could make that would be on par with the amazing projects I'd seen from other swaps. I knew I wanted to try some things I haven't tried before while keeping a semi-cohesive design style. I also wanted to make something that...

Ok. This is my submission for the 2018 box swap. It is Walnut and Ash. Very simple design and construction, but I spent a lot of time digging through my lumber pile and planing to find the right figuring and knot pattern that looked right to me. Finished with several coats of linseed oil and...

I wanted the box I built for this swap to be different. I looked through nine-hundred-some boxes on LJs and saw that octagon boxes, while not common, weren't entirely rare either. But none that I saw were dovetailed. What the heck, I had just learned to cut dovetails this year, so how hard could...

This was my entry for the 2018 Spring Box Swap where members who signed up would build a box and exchange it with some other participant who's name was drawn at random. This box is made with 1/2" Walnut sides, a veneered quilted Birdseye Maple lid insert, and African Padauk corner posts. It...

This is the box that I made for the box swap. It is curly ash with cherry splines. I split my board in half and cut the pieces so the grain wraps around the box. The knot figure on the front is where they join. It has Brusso hinges and laser engraving on the top and bottom. I was challenged...

I am the fortunate recipient of this , not the builder. Charlie Kilian, you do very good work! All 6 sides are covered with the maze. Please, save all the comments for when Charlie posts this.