Thread: redwood & limba boxes

Defectts aren't so obvious, but the well resolved design is. I really think it's a lovely, elegant box.

They look fine to me.
Well done and thanks for sharing.
Kevin

Lovely. You are well past the initial learning curve and up into a hyperbolic (I think that is the right word, a long time since high-school geometry)

Well from a carpenter and joiner it looks good to me

Lovely box, and you made two?
Can you explain how you made the legs?
I tried doing something similar about six months ago and made a real hash of it. Gave up and fed it to the fire after days of frustration and ill thought out methods.
Cheers

...well resolved design...

I can't take an ounce of credit for that. I got a pattern book for Christmas. This is #3 made from it.

Defects aren't so obvious... Well from a carpenter and joiner it looks good to me.

Then I must have done a good enough job hiding them to pass picture inspection. The main issue was in cutting the bevels in the lids. My table saw is crap and I'd never trust it to do the bevels, so they had to be done on the bandsaw. With a little jiggery, I figured it out, but the corners didn't line up. It wasn't blade drift, but I couldn't figure out what happened. I ended up hiding it all with the sander. The other issue was with the splines that were supposed to run the verticle length of the miters. THOSE I did on the tablesaw, but they didn't line up either so they had to be filled in.

Lovely box, and you made two? Can you explain how you made the legs?

Didn't see the point is posting pics of identical boxes.
The legs were quite a process.
1 make a long square blank.
2 cut the dado (I did it on the router. The book said to do it on the tablesaw with a wider board, then cut off the blank)
3 cut each leg to length
4 taper them (I marked off the angle with a pencil, ruler, and protractor, then took them to the disk sander)
5 1/8" roundover. The pieces are SMALL, so use rubber-bottomed push blocks to hold them.
6 When gluing them on, set the box on a riser block so the legs are a uniform height. I did all 4 at once with a band clamp. It might have been easier to do them individually.

Getting pretty fancy! I like your choice of timbers - nice complimentary contrast. Brings out a good visual interest. The legs make the box in my opinion. Well worth the effort.

Nice Job! Looks really nice.
I just got that book myself and am loosely using a design from it myself.

Originally Posted by avengers63

I can't take an ounce of credit for that. I got a pattern book for Christmas. This is #3 made from it.


Then I must have done a good enough job hiding them to pass picture inspection. The main issue was in cutting the bevels in the lids. My table saw is crap and I'd never trust it to do the bevels, so they had to be done on the bandsaw. With a little jiggery, I figured it out, but the corners didn't line up. It wasn't blade drift, but I couldn't figure out what happened. I ended up hiding it all with the sander. The other issue was with the splines that were supposed to run the verticle length of the miters. THOSE I did on the tablesaw, but they didn't line up either so they had to be filled in.


Didn't see the point is posting pics of identical boxes.
The legs were quite a process.
1 make a long square blank.
2 cut the dado (I did it on the router. The book said to do it on the tablesaw with a wider board, then cut off the blank)
3 cut each leg to length
4 taper them (I marked off the angle with a pencil, ruler, and protractor, then took them to the disk sander)
5 1/8" roundover. The pieces are SMALL, so use rubber-bottomed push blocks to hold them.
6 When gluing them on, set the box on a riser block so the legs are a uniform height. I did all 4 at once with a band clamp. It might have been easier to do them individually.

Originally Posted by Gecko

Nice Job! Looks really nice.
I just got that book myself and am loosely using a design from it myself.

The one from WOOD Magazine? I did the potpourri & the bandsawn bird boxes as well.

That is the one. Some good ideas to think about and try in there.

[QUOTE=avengers63;I'm finally getting past the initial learning curve. [/QUOTE]

Does that curve ever end???

I hope not

I like the combination of colours you have chosen, congratulations of a project well executed..

Cheers

Steve

We all know that we'll keep learning as long as we do this. That I was meaning is the massive curve at the beginning when you make all your rookie mistakes.

I like it, very pretty box and lovely timber.