Thread: A quickie box from off-cuts

Last week, I was coming down with the 'flu and for two days had all the classic symptoms.

This would have been of major concern to my wife as usually, when I get the flu, I get it bad and as a patient, I am an absolute blight on humanity. Viz, I am a dreadful patient!


Fortunately, the symptoms started to abate after two days for reasons unknown to me and although some minor symptoms have hung around for a few days, I seem to have held back the main onslaught of flu by curtailing my activities quite a bit and staying out of the night air, not going fishing, etc.


After filling a couple of days reading fishing magazines and watching TV, I just had to do something. Anything!

So I found my way into my "shed" (aka "garage") and started pottering around making a few box carcases with my Gifkins dovetail jig. I made the boxes out of salvage materials from the Reverse Garbage shop. See my earlier post on making a box out of same ... https://www.woodworkforums.com/f87/bo...f-cuts-116802/

I find it very relaxing sitting at my router table using the Gifkins' jig and wearing protective ear muffs with iPod ear buds underneath carrying podcasts from Radio National. All very relaxing. Just what the doctor ordered, I reckon.


So relaxing, in fact that I am a bit embarrassed about the quality of my output such as the box on display here as I did get a bit casual about one or two aspects of making it. But what the heck, I think that the use of salvage materials is always worth showing, even if the odd joint, or bit of sanding, is less than perfect.


Here is a completed box from that bit of R & R. It's purpose is to replace an old tin that I keep near my front door into which I throw loose change. I draw from that loose change when I get door-kockers seeking charitable donations. That is, the purpose of this little box is simply to be a money box just inside my front door.


No prizes for this one but you can see that all the timber materials used are off-cuts of slats used in window blind manufacture. The sides are from flat slats and the top is from a curved profile slat.


Click for full size - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch


I have to confess that I get a bit of a thrill about turning salvage materials into something that is functional and reasonably pleasant to look at.



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