Thread: Just finished a couple of boxes

Always some bugger raising the bar another notch eh! Absolutely beautiful craftmanship. Now I'll never be able to post any of mine - when/if I get round to making them.

Welcome. Excellent work. I really like the shop made hinges and lock.

Great boxes mate!

I especially like the long/short dovetails; very neat! Super timber too

What they all said, and welcome to the forum.

Al

I second what Al said!

Originally Posted by Harry72

I second what Al said!

Slacker....

Al

Is this a new forum record? stride88 has made one post and he has all the rep point lights on, must be a first, surely. and yes, im impressed with the craftsmanship and design.


one thing i would like to see in photos of boxes and most other works on the forum is some sort of object included in the picture to give a sense of scale. eg a coin, matchbox, ruler with readable scale, half inch chisel or whatever just so we have something to relate the size of the work to.

Very nice craftsmanship!!!

............................great to see you join in and WELCOME! please keep the posts coming I for one look foward to seeing more of your work!!!

REGards Lou

I want to thank everyone for their nice comments. It's encouraging to know that all you box makers like what I've done.

Some of you had questions - I'll try to answer them all here:

Both boxes use 3/4" (approx 19mm) for the sides and 1/2" (approx 13mm) for the front and back. I like to use the thicker material for the sides because it gives the dovetail pins a more pleasing look.

I created the curves (i.e. the wavy floating panel and the "domed" lid) using a couple of hand planes. For the concave curves I used a homemade plane that has a convex, curved bottom. For the convex curves, I used a regular block plane.

The indents in the front and lid of the padauk box were created with a chisel - I basically cut a "V" shape with the chisel and then kind of shaped it a bit during sanding.

The hinges are just basically a box joint (or finger joint) with the fingers rounded over. I used a 1/8" maple dowel for the hinge pin. You could make these with one of those finger joint jigs (there are lot of plans for them on the Internet) but I found it just as easy to cut them by hand using the same technique as for cutting dovetails. Looking at the hinge, you can see that the top part of the finger for the hinge leaf in the lid is not rounded over. This works beautifully as a lid stop - the lids opens to just past 90 degrees.

Thanks again for all your comments. This is a great forum - I hope the box making section starts getting some more traffic.

Cheers,

Brent

"I hope the box making section starts getting some more traffic."

Keep showing boxes like that and it will!

Beautiful work, I really like the dmall details and design in those, would be proud to own one like that and absolutely thrilled to make anything near the quality, well done...i might have to work out how to send a green thing

Originally Posted by TTIT

Always some bugger raising the bar another notch eh! Absolutely beautiful craftmanship. Now I'll never be able to post any of mine - when/if I get round to making them.

I think it's been raised a couple of notches Terrific design and craftmanship
Peter

Went poking around and found this great box.
WOW!
Great dovetails inspiring design - love the way it is designed to be opened.
Say! - where'd that person go anyway?
Anyway.... just WOW!

.........and wow from me, too. Somehow, I missed this thread in April, stumbled upon it now because of rightendup's post.
Beautiful work, thanks for posting........... although it is very disheartening to see such skills, far beyond anything to which I might aspire.