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After purchasing the Veritas small plow plane I decided that a cardboard box just wasn't appropriate to keep it in. My other planes hang on the wall so I can get to them easily but with the 5 blades plus the 3 beading blades it seems better to keep everything together. The box is made of a...

This was thrown together on a whim while testing out a newly acquired cheap-o dado set. One joint didn't close up all the way but I chose to leave it instead of filling. The sides are maple flooring scraps and the top is an edge glued pallet slat of ash.

My niece is getting married. She and her fiance sent out Save-the-Date announcements a short while ago and I made a puzzle for them from it. One of the pieces serves as a gift certificate for a wedding guest book puzzle for them. The image was mounted on quarter inch Baltic birch plywood. I...

My most recent completed handcut dovetail box. It is larger than the others and it is custom built to hold my Stanley 45 combination plane and cutters. It is poplar with a pine sliding lid and pine handles. I used a large chisel to chamfer the lid and give it a "pillowed" look/feel. There is a...

A box for wood buddy's birthday present A wood buddy of mine Napoleon is having a round birthday one of these days. So I wanted to give him a little present. Know he had no trammel points, so I got some from UK, but how could I give him just that? So I made him a little box for them, an old...

I needed a box to protect my dial calipers and I had a piece of scrap flooring with some nice figure I used for the top. The box is from white oak left over from table legs. Bottom liner is craft foam. The second smaller box is a result of inability to throw away shorts. (wood that is) I'll...

Simple sliding lid box (from the Mike & Mads cutting gauge blog) A gift to a wonderful friend. Yes the gauge I made Mike needed a custom made box. You can see the full blog here: http://lumberjocks.com/mafe/blog/21939 Nothing fancy, but with personality and all made of recycle wood. The box...

This project allowed me to try my hand at half dovetails and inlay work. I used my inverted router to hollow out the inside of the box and create the groove for the inlay.

First attempt at a mitered shoulder dovetail. Made from Dibetou (African Walnut) cut offs from another project I'm building. All made by hand from the milling of the wood down to the raised panels and the finger notch. Finished with orange shellac and waxed with 0000 beeswax/orange oil mix...

Sliding lid pencil box out of poplar. Hand cut dovetails finished with 4 coats of General Arm-R-Seal Semi Gloss. First attempt at a sliding lid box and my first evidence that I prefer a western style push saw to the japanese pull style as the dovetails with my western dovetail saw are great...