Thread: Writing Box

Have you googled "writing slope"?

'Cause that's what they are called.

It's a bit earlier than "Victorian" but Fine WoodWorking #144, October 2000 has plans for Thomas Jefferson's Writing Desk.
also google image search brings up:
http://www.aanside.co.uk/Woodworking/Boxes.htm
http://www.hygra.com/writing.html
http://www.libraryantiques.com/showr...iting_box.html
plus many other examples.

hope this helps

ian

http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/pl...tails/5/26/849

to buy the plans for a Lap Desk aka writing box.

Also http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/pl...tails/5/26/850

Thanks guys,
Yes, I'd found plenty of examples of the writing box/writing slopes but no plans available. I really wanted to make sure that I had the proportions correct before attempting to draw up my own plan.
Thanks again

Jim
The sketches accompanying the FWW article are to my mind sufficiently detailed that you could build a copy.
This might be obvious, but antique writing boxes will be sized for quill pens and a size of paper that is no longer available.
I think you firstly need to decide your paper size, A4 or A5, and whether the writing orientation is portrait or landscape.
Then you need to decide whether envelopes sit loosley on top of the paper or are in a drawer along with pens and stamps.
From there I think you're building a document box, with tray (or sliding till) that holds a pen or two, envelopes and stamps.


ian