Thread: Finally finished my second box...

hello all,

i have been trying my hardest to make these bandsawn boxes over the last couple of months with limited success. the first one i made turned out nice. i felt very positive about it all and set out to try a bunch of things. i ruined my next 3 boxes!!! some of them got me so frustrated they ended up meeting the floor at maximum velocity

i then tried a design of my own to see what i could come up with (previous attempts were insired from pics on the net). the result is the box in this thread. i started with a piece of generic wood from bunnings which came out looking very plain so i decided to stain it. this was also my first time using a drum sander, and as you can see it got away from me a little.

The finish is wet and dry sanding to 320 grit then ubeaut sanding sealer followed by sanding with wet and dry 400 grid. stained with wattle rosewood alcohol product then 2 coats of minwax wipe on poly using 0000 steel wool between coats then polish with EEE followed by traditional wax.