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  1. Projects Pencil Box

    The Lemonade berry is a test. Cut in my yard last year, more of a big shrub than a tree. It is really as yellow as the photos show, but cut pieces are showing a patina. It turns pink, then red. I look forward to seeing how dark it gets. Hand cut dovetails on the walnut sides are very sloppy. Too...
  2. Door Desk

    For a remodel of my son's room I took an old solid wood 6 panel door and converted it into a desk. A few cuts were done to shorten the length and then to make the leg. The extra material from the cut offs was used to make support brackets. For the top I made a wood pencil box/organizer and...
  3. Pencil Box

    The first pencil box I've done. Lid and bottoms are Bass wood, the sides are Tigerwood, and the name on the lid is from Purpleheart! Many projects were going this year for Christmas, the first of which is this Pencil box I made for my grand daughter. She is in first grade and has started really...
  4. Clock and Pencil Holder (Wood Whisperer Designs)

    Here are a couple projects I made that were obviously inspired by the Wood Whisperer website. Along with the cutting board I also posted this morning, I think it's pretty clear that I bought a length of maple and a length of purpleheart and have been using that for projects before allowing...
  5. Tiger Tiger Pencil Boxes

    Tiger Tiger burning bright In the forests of the night William Blake 1757-1827 . . . About 5 months ago, although it seems far away and long ago, I played around with some bandsaw patterns and blogged the results, here I seem to remember making some vague promise to make boxes out of them...
  6. Birthday Boxes for Dad, Mom & Brother

    Mom's Lift Top Box Pretty much took the design of Doug Stowe's A Simple Lift-Lid Box in his book, "Basic Box Making" 2007. BTW - make sure you get the DVD as I think it is very helpful to beginners. Book: https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Box-Making-Doug-Stowe/dp/1561588520 DVD...
  7. Pencil boxes

    I made a few pencils boxes for the start of the school year. The dark brown box is mulberry and a paulownia bottom, the bigger light brown box is afrormosia. The two black boxes are wenge, the smaller wenge box has a paulownia bottom. The flutes were cut using a 1/2" cove bit. Used super glue...
  8. Pencil box for a hard working teacher

    I made this pencil box for a hard working teacher who just started a new job teaching high school chemistry, physical science, and physics. This is the second box I made working through Doug Stowe's "Basic box making," and as he states in the book, box making is a great way to learn skills...
  9. Cove Pencil Box

    Simple and Elegant. The cove pencil box features an asymmetrical cove carve around the entirety of the exterior. The box body is made of solid Zebrawood with Wenge accents at the top and bottom. Each miter is splined with two Wenge splines. No stains or dies were used in the making of this...
  10. Pencil Box

    This pencil box started as a piece of scrap wood that I practiced a wood burning of a Bass. I liked it so much though I decided it would become the lid to a box and since it was the length of a pencil well it became a pencil box. So I drew up some plans and lost them and this is what came from...
  11. Curved Desktop Pencil Box

    This pencil box was commissioned as a desktop unit to match the owners desk profile in order to store his ever growing pencil and pen collection. Solid oak with oak veneered drawer fronts and back, the top cover is pin hinged to the body and carefully fitted to the curved profile. Black ebony...
  12. Skill Builder Box #2 - Oak pencil box for the shop

    My second sklll building box. I am working to stop watching videos and start learning by doing. Box goals: Make a mitered box to hold pencils/pens/markers in the shop in my "measuring stuff" drawer. Try out resawing oak. Try leaving it overnight on the suggestion of more experienced LJs...
  13. Dovetail Pencil Box

    This is a dovetail pencil box that my daughter made and I coached her through it. My daughter is in college but has been going to school from home due to this pandemic. Rather than going out with friends like normal times, she's been forced to hang out back at home. So we did a woodworking...
  14. Cargo Crate Style Pencil Box

    I needed a couple of quick gifts and a pencil box seemed like a good idea. This Cargo Crate Style Pencil Box features simple butt joints and a tilting lid. And uses the material scraps to create a cargo crate esthetic. The finish is a wipe on Boiled Linseed Oil (BLO) which is perfect for this...
  15. Finger Joint Boxes Wenge/Padouk

    This wood was in a throw-out bin at a co-op shop making musical instruments. My sister worked there for a time and sent me a pile. It was a couple feet long and 3/8" to 1/4" stock, so there was not much room in which to plane or sand and it was warped, cupped, and very rough. Still, it took me a...
  16. pencil holders - round two

    I took a week off work in June and needed a project. These pencil boxes were a great way to practice some basic miter joints using the table saw as well as rabbet the bases. They became thank you gifts for people at work and I've had requests from two others. They are made from 1/4 inch box...
  17. Pencil Box

    This should be called "The Box of 1000 Mistakes". It seems like I invented ways to drop pieces, measure from the wrong side, and cut crooked throughout this project. In the end, it didn't turn out too hideous. I'm really a fan of quartersawn Sycamore and Cherry, and think that they...
  18. Small Cherry and Maple Box

    I have been ruminating over some ideas for small projects that would make good gifts. Additionally, I had never (until now) made small boxes (for jewelry, or displaying turned pens, etc.). This project and another box project are experiments in designs and techniques and also my first two...
  19. Pencil Box

    The other day I read a posting on Dan's Shop blog, where he described how he makes a pencil box as a birthday gift for every student in his classroom. Putting aside the daunting nature of that revelation, I loved the style and design of his box, and decided to make one of my own. I lack a plow...
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