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This box is Old Growth California Redwood with Bocte hinges, Maple splines and Walnut bottom. The dished Fleur di Leis was carved on my CarveWright machine. 3 coats of Wipe on Poly. I still have to trim the brass pins on the hinges.

A quick box to help organize. I couldn't help experimenting a little.

I made this box for a 6 year old girl who is a friend of the family and who asked me to make her a box. It's made of Arizona ash and walnut which I had milled with a chainsaw mill and air dried. The top and bottom panels are from a slab I cut from the stump and are floating panels in grooves...

Some of you may remember the Arkansas cherry table I posted a while back. This box is from the same carpenter ant infested logs. Dimensions:12×7x4 1/2". Pegged box joints. Live edge 'Shipwright' wooden hinge 3/8" thick. Finished with BLO and shellac. Large ant hole in the front filled with...

This is actually my first experimental cylinder box… (much better to call it cylinder). My second one earlier done and posted. I used skewers on that second one. I do like the first one because this was the original plan. To make the wall of the cylinder, I have to glue strips of wood 1/2...

Random colors of trapezoid (45 degree) and rectangle combined together to form a board like this… .... not contented I continue with the sides… note that the first row nearest the miter top joint is bigger… The purpose is to have an extra waste materials for me to cut it using router (1/8...

This is one of the first boxes I made a few years ago. I did a series trying different joinery methods. This one is one example of the dovetails I made. I used oak and mesquite. I confess, I used a jig for the dovetails and have since moved on to handwork. I will post some of the hand cut...

My buddy Kenny left me some railroad dunnage after I helped him with his retirement box project so I just had to cut into it and see what I found! I also had been wanting to try Von Hagan's raised panels on the tablesaw so this box happened. Dimensions:14×8 x 3 5/8". Walnut splines. Ipe' handle...

FLINTSTONE FASHION (Out of the wood3) 1050L x 590D x 970H A Cocktail cabinet in White Pear, Poplar and Kiaat with Ironwood hinges. In this piece I attempted to present furniture as functional sculpture. The cabinet evolved from the legs; some curved cants of Poplar that stared at me from a...

I've been making these card holders as wood wallets with scraps that I inevitably have laying around the shop . . .

A friend of mine cut up a mulberry tree and gave me the firewood. I have always wanted to build something from this bright yellow wood, so of course a box happened. Dimensions: 12×7x3 3/4". No glue box joints. Shipwright hinges. Deft semi-gloss rattle can lacquer finish followed by Renissance...

I have never kept any of this style boxes for myself so I'm building one from each wood where I milled the logs. This is from Texas hill country mesquite which has a pinkish color. Dimensions: 12×8x4 1/2". No glue (pinned) box joints. Shipwright hinges with live edge. Deft lacquer finish. I...

Inspired by our beloved Martyn, I used the same antique miter saw to make this five-sider, as with the last mitered box… Martyn had said that tape and rubber bands would probably be enough for the glue-up, and it probably would have been, but I tied some loose loops of rope around it and...

This was a learning project. It has my first hand tooled dovetails, box hinge and breadboard ends. The finish is oil and wax. Details about the hinge: I got the idea for the hinge from several posts on doing wooden hinges this past year, and thanks to shipwright's blog post. To make the...

This is a siamese twin boxes born from scrap without plans. The way it was made is very different from a usual project. You can view details of how it was made from my blog The box is a composite of two pentabox cut on one side then joined them together with a division plate. The sides...

Box made with butternut (AKA white walnut) from a local sawyer. Miter keys, top insert, bottom insert and hinge made from black walnut. Finished with three coats of wipe-on polyurethane. Neodymium magnets installed for positive closure. Interior of lid upholstered with red velvet.

A friend of mine has been wanting one of my mesquite boxes and he recently brought his tractor over when mine was broken so I saw a chance to repay the favor and made this for him. Mesquite sawed from my last log. Dimensions:7×12x4 1/2". Finish: shellac, wax. Patron hinge of Jatoba. Included the...

Boys and Girls, For those that are getting sick and tired of my posts, blame LRM (LeeRoyMan) and PM him your abuses. He had the audacity to challenge my unused router bits in one of my previous posts which compelled me to investigate. I slowly recalled that my purchase of an Incra Hingecrafter...

I decided I wanted a box from each type of wood I sawed the logs for the lumber. This is the last of five. This one is Oklahoma elm. Dimensions:12×7x3 3/4". No glue box joints. Live edges on top and hinge. Shipwright hinge. Finished with Deft SG rattle can lacquer. The last pic shows the whole...

I guess this is kind of a part of a project. But I had so much fun building these that I just wanted to share. I had never tried to build something like this before. These are maple hinges. The barrel on them is pretty small, 1/4 inch. The flaps or plates are 1/8 inch thick. The hinge pins...