Thread: I know its just radiata pine...

Hi Cruzi,
Might just be Raidata Pine but it still shows the quality of workmanship that went into it. Looks great to me!!!

Looks like a really useful box. Nice workmanship. What are you going to use it for?

Love it!!!

Cruzi, it is an attractive box, the price of the timber should be more expensive with a grain like that.

It you have trouble with the lid bowing at a later date, (put some of that timber left over in a safe place) you can always take the lid off and cut it into strips (reverse the grain each piece) use the scrap you saved and rebuild as a laminated lid. It works for me here in the UK where a lot of our timber is not well seasoned.

Great looking box, and functional too.

Nothing wrong with radiata if you select your timber properly as you have done.

Looks good from here Cruzi, nothing wrong with that radiata

G'day Cruzi,
Excellent construction. Who cares if its pine....looks bloody good!

Very nice project. The thing to recognize is not what kind of wood you used or what you built, but that the work you've done is high quality. Although it's simple, your attention to detail doesn't pass by without notice.

-a real fancy way of saying 'attaboy', which is 'merican squawk for 'goodonya'

I really love everyday items expertly hand crafted. You can work with pride each time you take a tool out of it.

The great thing about it being pine instead of an expensive exotic is you can feel ok using it and banging it around as tool boxes generally are. Over the years it will just look better and better with each nick and dent a silent witness to the labors of the craftsman. With worksmanship like that of those expertly done dovetails it is sure to be a treasured heirloom to be passed down to one of your children, or grandchildren.

Nice one.

Pine has never looked so good.

Some people deride pine, but I think it's just fine. The only thing you need is razor sharp tools if you want to cut endgrain.

That box looks fantastic. Quality almost up there with the Pope's coffin.

Good work Cruzi, great effort. Don't knock the pine I have used pine a lot in the past and made some real nice pieces.

Hey, good looking box - nice joins.

I use a lot of pine - like the colour. I think the only reason radiata pine is looked-down-on (gotta be a better word, but stuffed if I can think of it) is that there is so much of it, it's easy to get and cheap. Bit like rabbits - Aussies don't eat rabbits, there's too many of them (and most of them have ddt or something in their genes) - Poms eat them cos they're harder to get (and cos their cows and sheep are always being... oh stoppit).

Anyway, I like pine. If you want a good two-tone, pine and maple look good.

Cheers,
Chumley

very nice

I always thought radiata is one of the hardest timbers to work and still get a quality looking job - cause of the way the edges crumble. You did it well.

From an environmental standpoint, its good to see someone make something that looks so good from a plantation timber. Its probably all we will be able to get some day.

Arron