Thread: started a laminated box with diagonal strips

Should really pop when given a few coats!

That ended up great! I really like that .

Corey

Very nicely done, jow104. The strip around the base and the lid unify the whole structure (and mask any discontinuities in the striping between the lid and the sides). Brilliant job.

Thanks Zen.

One of the sides has a bow again, so things obviously move and return.

So if I made another with more planning I would also incorporate a dado inside with a bead inserted hoping it would keep things flat. Or even a lip on top of box area so that lid rested on something with a reliable grain.

The drop on lid is working at the moment.

Quote by labolle
Jow, I really like your boxes and what you are doing with strips and small bits. I'm curious, what kind of glue are you using for that and how are you preparing the edges of different pieces before you joint them? A jointer? Or something else? Is that something that can be done with a common home set up?
My reply.

Glue on this box was evostick PVA (weatherproof) bluebottle.
But the last box made with rectangular offcuts was titebond3.

The strips have mainly come from my off cut pile and are from previous box projects. This meant that timber was most probably already 10 or 12mm thick. I have a combined (cheapo) planer /thicknesser and that will thickness down to 7mm and pieces need to be about 250mm long. I lay the strips on poly sheeting (very thin) and squeeze them up with a bar and wedge, if there is a tendency to rise I put a bar or board over the top and clamp both ends down to keep flat. The last strip box I put through the thicknesser after glue had set but got a knick on my blade for the effort. Previously I had sanded to a flat surface.