Thread: Mallets box

Recently I made a box for three mallets that i made to a friend from an online woodworking community here in Brazil. I am posting a few photos from the box. The box has angled sides with hand cut dovetails.


The wood from the box is Spanish Cedar (Cedrela odorata) and Canjerana (Cabralea canjerana). Both species are natives from Brazil, the Canjerana (the more dark and red in photos) is from the same family from Spanish Cedar, the Meliaceae family, but is a little more dense.


I have used simples hinges, but they are recessed and the edges of the lid and box joint are chamfered, this makes a stop to the lid.


The panel of the lid is made for a more figured Spanish Cedar and two strips of Canjerana. The frame is from Canjerana.


And the three mallets, made from Angico (Anadenthera sp.), a very dense hardwood, native in my region, saved from the woodpile. I do not have a lathe yet, so I turn the mallets in a friend's lathe. In the picture they are recently turned, but with time, two or three weeks, they will acquire a more reddish color.


And this is my friend showing the bottom of the box, he insisted that I sign it, so I made a simple carve with my logo and name.

The finish is several coats of polymerized tung oil outside, and a few coats of pure tung oil inside and in the mallets. I have not sanded the sides of the box, it is only hand planed, I think that this is the cause of the strong contrast in side grain versus end grain.

Greetings,
Tomazelli